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A deformed existence
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1999
GANDHAR KARMAKAR is nine years old.
He has only one eye, and suffers from paralysis. Elder to him by three years is Motiram. He suffers from osteoporosis (general bone damage). Dunia Uraon, also just short of his teens, is another unfortunate adolescent. His mother
suffered three miscarriages before
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New medias triumph
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
Social networking site Twitter evokes mixed feelings. It has been credited with helping organize political protest and has been criticized for disrespecting privacy. According to Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, in the rarest of cases, apparently, Twitter can do both. Rusbridger recently prevailed in a legal fight over the publication of secret documents.
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Sun, sea and garbage
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
That's the lot of fishing villages along Karachi's coastline
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DIAL siphons off water
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
Airport operator yet to comply with directive to reuse water
the Delhi airport is getting its swanky makeover with illegally extracted groundwater that is used for construction and other purposes.
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14 km from Pune, its footprint
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Villagers suffer the city's garbage. Relatives don't visit them, diseases do
Hanumant Bhandari is getting used to his speckled face. The 10-year-old student of a school on the outskirts of Pune was intrigued by the white
spots on his face and thighs when they first appeared a year ago. The spots disappear whenever he takes medicine, but reappear in no time.
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Inconvenience regretted
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2009
Mangroves should not be used as sewage disposal sites. It is killing them
mangroves grow in highly saline, coastal waters, representing a very unique ecosystem. According to an estimate,
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Oil in the well
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
Company chokes water supply of 25 families in Karnataka
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No check on effluents
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
Industrial town spent Rs 2 crore on flow meters that no one monitors
THE industrial units of Pali town in Rajasthan were made to install meters to measure the amount of effluents they discharge. But no one is monitoring them.
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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.