My god v your resource

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Become iron woman, eat veggies

Gram sabha gets a boost

Governors in the dock

GOVERNORS of states with sizeable tribal population have come in for indictment over not performing their special administrative roles. To ensure partial autonomy in tribal areas, the Constitution entrusts governors with immense powers to supervise the administration and governance in such areas.

Curse of copper

A search for a lost friend

Every time a book on Maoists and Chhattisgarh is released, I experience a curious mixture of excitement and yearning. As a journalist, I have found both Chhattisgarh and the Maoist rebels in the state intriguing. I harbour a desire to write about Chhattisgarh and the Maoists sometime.

Long road to justice

With most political parties having set their sights on the 2014 national elections, the Congress-led UPA government is surely hoping for a repeat of the 2009 miracle. A good part of the credit for the 2009 victory has been given to progressive legislation like the employment guarantee Act. It is no surprise then that the Congress is looking at more such pieces of legislation before the country goes to the polls.

Swinging both ways

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS is the best-known and longest-lived early human— the species to which popular “Lucy” skeleton belongs. Since this species walked upright, it has been thought it might not have been an efficient tree-climber like its ancestors.

Bamboo rising

Nobody in Loyendi village keeps track of time. But for its 150-odd residents, December 7, 2012, is a day to remember. “It is our independence day,” says village elder Petra Kanhara. On this day, the village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district got community right over 20 mountains full of forests under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).

The poorest shun MGNREGA