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An African Diary, 12 days in Kenya
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A can of worms
Book>> Brands Under Fire
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Showering love on farmers
Did anyone check if they want such love? organizing agricultural markets is an exercise in managing contradictions. There is the need to ensure farmers earn from their efforts, both for reasons of social justice and the country
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A vaccine for corrupt alliances
The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going WHEN the United Progressive Alliance (upa) was looking for partners after the 2004 general election, anyone was welcome. But has better judgment prevailed this time around? The coalition could ask itself this as it clears the mess left behind by the former Union minister for health and family welfare. It was a
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From the blurbs
Good Women Do Not Inherit Land, Politics of Land and Gender in India by Nitya Rao, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, Rs 795 This book takes us to the lives and anxieties of Santhal women in two villages of Dumka district, Jharkhand. The life histories span different social patterns but all of them relate to rights in landed property, and their own troubled identities in the backdrop of
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Local politics
Book>>Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Self Governance
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A pat on our backs
Book>> The Elephant and The Dragon
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Poisoning food and science
Documentary>>Poison on the Platter
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Nature cure from India
Biofuel from India key to de-addict oilholic American economy In February 2009, India
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Rebuilding cities
JNNURM shows the way, but partially Since time immemorial, people have migrated from rural areas to towns and cities in the hope of finding employment. Cities are associated with opportunities
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I compete with birds
When Peter Kaestner is not holding visa interviews at the US Embassy in Delhi, he prefers nurturing his ambition of spotting all the 10,000 known bird species. He has spotted 8,200 so far. He has also discovered a new bird in Colombia which is named after him. Arnab Pratim Dutta caught up with him. Excerpts: Why did you become a bird watcher? I remember getting exhilarated on seeing a bird
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Too early to celebrate
An apex order will only hit the large SEZs The Supreme Court recently refused to stay the land acquisition proceedings in Raigarh, for the Mumbai Special Economic Zone (sez) promoted by Reliance Industries. According to section 11A of the Land Acquisition Act, if the process of land acquisition is not completed within two years from its commencement (June 8 in this case), the acquisition
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Virtual dystopia
Book>> Cyburbia, The Dangerous Idea That
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Merchant unlimited
Book>> India
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Fleetingly scary
Film>> Tobacco, Threat to Life and Development
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and not for garbage
Because the primary resource, apart from land, is people. Ragpickers are human resource it is not easy to determine the amount of garbage India produces. No large corporations see business opportunities in it, political parties do not see votes in it, the media does not see stories in it. Stands to reason the Planning Commission has not proposed a grand plan to make India the world
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Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership edited by Prem Chowdhry, Sage Publications, Delhi, Rs 795 Customs and practices, Shastric prescriptions and Muslim personal laws made their way into colonial laws and got consolidated in the post-colonial period through various Union, state and concurrent laws.They placed fetters on women owning land. This volume analyses the different degrees of
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Our times
A country of young people lives in denial about scarcity, violence and global warming It was the best of times, Dickens says in the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities,
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India needs land for water
To deal with scarcity, with climate change, with pollution