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Meghalaya
Hills of despair and hope
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
At one point in his memoir, A Writer’s People, V S Naipul notes, “All my life I have had to think about ways of looking and how they alter the configurations of the world.” The celebrated writer's method holds true for not only a novel but also an academic work, especially when it is set in a politically volatile and culturally diverse region.
@sugandh84 Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya
Issue Date: Jul 30, 2012
Narpuh reserve forest, deep inside the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, is among the few good forest patches which has withstood the intense pressures of growth, development and mindless extraction of natural resources like coal and limestone. It also forms an important watershed area with many important rivers originating from the hills. We visited the forest in March and November last year looking for birds and primates as part of an ecological study.
Rice that binds
Posted on: 21 Mar, 2012
Hoihnu Hauzel finds out the different ways people of northeast savour sticky rice
Greens of Meghalaya
Posted on: 31 Jan, 2012
The state has number of exotic vegetables, available only in the local markets
No plutonium to go on
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2004
Into the void
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2004
Uranium reserves almost over, little plutonium and chased away by people from digging new mines -- India's nuclear establishment is under tremendous pressure. By 2020, it has to prepare for the thorium-based third phase of the nuclear programme. If this doesn't begin on time, the programme would turn out to be a colossal waste of national resources since Independence. Thorium, the government says, is a boon.
Scraping the barrel
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2004
A uranium drought haunts India's nuclear programme. And in the rush to end this scarcity, UCIL has failed in gaining people's confidence. The country's current nuclear power generation is entirely dependent on natural uranium (see chart: All reactions delayed), which fuels 12 pressurised heavy water reactors and all research projects.
After the People met
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2004
This question was asked in an official letter in February this year. The letter had a genesis: an unprecedented gathering of nearly 50,000 people from Meghalaya's tribal communities at Smit, West Khasi Hills. Heeding the call of chiefs, people endorsed on January 14 this year a historical "People's Budget". Filling up a large rolling meadow in the capital of the traditional khasi kingdom of Khyrim, people discussed, altered and sculpted into final shape a five-year financial plan to develop their villages.
RED ALERT in nuclear India
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2004
India's limping nuclear establishment wanted a new mine to dig but the verdict it got from the people was -- no. When the Jharkhand state pollution control board held a public hearing on February 25, 2004 in East Singhbhum district's Banduhurang village to get environmental clearance for the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd's (UCIL) proposed mine, three villages refused to be displaced.
