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Prabhanjan Verma
Prabhanjan Verma
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2002-8-31
Tiny forgotten villages teach India a firsthand lesson in governance. Down To Earth reporters and photographers fan out to six states to discover how villages have kept their date with history. And it’s not August 15
2001-12-31
Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, particularly forests. Large areas of densely forested regions in the country are controlled by Naxalites. In these forested areas, the state and forest administration dare not enter. Naxalites use the growing alienation of tribal people against forest laws to gain ground. They secure tribal rights over non- timber forest produce and dispense quick justice -- at gunpoint. Sadly, the victims of Naxal violence are invariably the custodians of our forests -- forest guards. What is even more unfortunate is that they lose their lives defending laws that are so anti-people. Down To Earth reporters travel to these densely forested areas to discover what the Naxal rule means for forest management
2002-11-30
SC takes governments to task over tardiness in executing food-based employment schemes following starvation deaths in Rajasthan
2002-7-15
The mystery of large-scale fish fatalities in the Yamuna near Agra and the conflicting official theories
A report by Prabhanjan Verma
2002-6-30
The two recently-published incomplete rice genome sequences do not in any way undermine the ten-country effort at a complete sequencing of the rice genome
Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...
Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...
Very good piece.