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Water revolution
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2001
Much water has flown in the history of Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district. The legendary romance of Rani Rupmati and Bag Bahadur has found indelible expressions in numerous waterbodies of the district's fort town Mandu. Most of these traditional water harvesting structures were built by Bag Bahadur for his love Rupmati. The people during that time had a fascination for water.
Fishing in troubled waters
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2001
the Tawa dam, in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh (mp), tells a story of success where the people displaced chart their own rehabilitation by fighting for their water and land rights.
Haunted by the past
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2000
allegations that the oil multinational Shell aided and abetted the torture and murder of Nigerian activists -- including the executed writer Ken Saro-Wiwa -- will be tested by a full jury trial in New York, after the oil company's attempts to have the case thrown out were rejected.
People power
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1998
Chidambaram's success
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1998
What a beautiful smile P Chidambaram, India's youthful finance minister, had on his face announcing the final results of the Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (vdis). Some Rs 10,000 crore, equivalent to about us $3 billion or about 5 per cent of the total annual aid flow from the North to the South, had suddenly landed in the pocket of the Indian government. India's corrupt businesspeople decided that the easy way out being offered to them was worth taking.
Born again
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1997
the forests of Melaghar in Sonmara sub division of west Tripura, that were once nearly denuded, have been revived through joint forest management ( jfm) .
Regaining a paradise
Issue Date: May 15, 1997
IN A bid to reverse the ongoing degradation of the Doon valley's environment and preserve its watershed, the Uttar Pradesh government initiated a project in 1993 which seeks to involve the locals in a watershed management scheme.
A voice for the silent majority
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1993
THE 73RD Constitution Amendment, yet to be ratified by the requisite number of state governments, holds within it the potential for a passive revolution in the Indian countryside. For not only does it constitutionalise a third level of governance in the country, namely the panchayats, it also reserves one-third of the seats in these bodies for women.
Dharna to defecation: The Indian art of protest
Issue Date: May 31, 1993
GAYS AND lesbians in their thousands demonstrated in Washington recently, demanding an end to discrimination and escalation of the war against AIDS, and dramatised their protest by lying on the street for five minutes.
Scarred by violence and fundamentalism
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1993
THE INDIAN women's movement faced several challenges last year: continued violence against women; the effects of the new structural adjustment policies on women's status; the question of political power for women; issues of health and population policies; and the threats posed by religious revivalism to women's rights.
