Blinding concerns

A tale of fortitude

Tribal women in an obscure block in Bihar churn out a success story

Spirited ruin of a village

Effluents from a liquor factory in Banka district spell doom for many villages around the unit and also pollute the Ganga.

Beware of the developers

In its bid to get out of poverty, the Bihar government has finalised a plan to drain out lakes and convert them to farmlands. But it seems to be …

Barefoot doctors

Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'

Forest tales

The tribal world view that humans can regenerate forests, but not create them, may resolve problems and failures which stalk forest management …

Mango tree insurance

Orchards shelter Dharhara’s daughters from discrimination

They write the wrongs

Daughters of sex workers run a magazine to tell their mothers’ stories  

The pitfalls of protection

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good …

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

Cycle of change

A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune

Saving Buddha's tree

Located on the banks of river Niranjana in Bodhgaya, south Bihar, the holy mahabodhi tree under which Buddha sat and meditated is infested with …

DIG Jehangir

Voice cracked

A radio-mechanic-turned-entrepreneur who made it to NCERT textbooksÔÇöand penury

Breach of trust

This is not a story about floods in Bihar. This is a story about how an entire society has been corrupted by money meant to build embankments for …

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Building a green roof

10,000 trees in 66 years, an octogenarian revives greenery in a village in Bihar

Pantabhat - well slept rice

Rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of …

Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

No headlines, no rehabilitation

Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media …

Fishing fortunes

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

The boat people

Thousands of people in Bihar are trapped between the Kosi and its embankments. They have been suffering for decades. But the state government is …

CAUTION:only loggers allowed

How do you destroy a forest? Cover it under Project Tiger and alienate the local people. An example from Bihar

Elusive bride price

ALOK GUPTA visits a Bihar village where people are building a road to get wives

Water is not for all