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Time to be different
@sunitanar Issue Date: Jun 15, 2009
The new (old) government is back. The question is if it has learnt its most important lesson: how to enjoin its political agenda to the agenda of government.
The god of ecological things
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2008
It was the mid-1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search--I tagged along--led him to a dusty, file-filled office in the secretariat. There we met V S Page. I remember a diminutive, soft-spoken man who explained to us why in 1972, when the state was hit with crippling drought and mass migration, it worked on a scheme under which professionals working in cities would pay for employment in villages.
Strong colas and weak governments
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2006
When we released our study on pesticides in soft drinks, our objective was clear: we needed action on regulations, which had been stymied because of corporate pressure. What we hadn't anticipated was the response of the cola majors. Three years have lapsed since we published our first report on pesticides in colas. The response then had been immediate and vituperative. "There are no pesticides in our drinks and the Centre for Science and Environment cannot test our products" was the line taken by the cola majors.
Old-style corruption better?
Issue Date: May 15, 2006
A journalist from the International Herald Tribune asked my opinion about what he called "modern forms of lobbying" that us multinationals operating in India engaged in. He was investigating how these companies were bringing their skills of influencing policy -- from 'planting' stories in the media, to 'engaging' academics and scientists to counter debates, to 'lobbying' legislators -- to India.
Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
Time we counted real change
Issue Date: May 31, 2005
Corruption, we know, takes myriad forms in India. The Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp), the country's main opposition party, believes that it's epitomised in railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, and wants his head. The fallout: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill has been delayed. It awaits clearance of a parliamentary standing committee headed by a bjp member who along with his party associates has decided not to go to work. Corruption, as I said, comes in many forms.
Time for the future to win
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2004
Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self-promotion? The answer is complicated, as can be expected from a country as diverse and layered as India.
Ordering a new world
Issue Date: May 15, 2003
I met Jacques Chirac this fortnight. Just before he made the call to George Bush and just before he left to attend the European Union summit in Athens, the French president met some 20 of us in his presidential palace for discussions on what would be the future of this increasingly unilateral world. This was the last working session of a two-day conference organised by an extraordinary French woman, Laurence Tubiana, who had put together a diverse group of people -- from presidents, ministers, academics and activists -- to deliberate on the challenges of global governance in the new world.
Change is for the obdurate
Issue Date: May 15, 2002
I never thought I would be writing an article about airports. But I am provoked to repeat what we know and to say what would not be said often in connection with the sorry state of our public spaces.
Anil Agarwal 1947 ~ 2002
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2002
Every period of his life was a new chapter of discovery. Anil never let us, even for one moment, feel that we were less powerful
