Dual approach to dam projects : Narmada Maiya

NARMADA MAIYA Duttprasad Dabholkar Publisher: Vishwa Prakashan Price: Rs 75

Rainforest malady

National parks are luxury in Third World

KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on …

Profiting from ecological subsidies

How and when to displace

THE DAM AND THE NATION DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT IN THE NARMADA VALLEY·Jean Dreze, Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh·Oxford …

Half truths

LARGE DAMS: LEARNING FROM THE PAST, LOOKING AT THE FUTURE, WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS·Edited by Tony Dorcer·International Union for …

Damning disclosure

Big dams have a high environmental and human cost, says a new report

People first

The Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules against a mining project that would have displaced thousands of people

United effort

To halt dam-linked dislocation

Salwa Judum going the Gandhian way? Chhattisgarh government thinks so

Pointed play

Koel Karo battles on

Tribals have been fighting the Koel Karo dams for the last 20 years - the longest struggle against a project. Now, a fresh budget fuels the …

The saga of Diego Garcia's Chagossian evacuees

How Diego Garcia became a US military base

Police firing sparks protests

Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers

Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major …

Keep the debate within the country

Making hay while forests shine

Rising waters

Activists against the Narmada dam gear up to face the submergence of the first set of villages

Big dams, more displacement

Small is more

A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals

The birds are back

Wrong banishment

Skin-deep Hinduism

Desperate Hindu extremists are making a mockery of the real problems that the river Ganga faces

Get out

Same old story. Dam threatens to displace tribals to appease rich farmers

India's rehabilitation policy under scanner yet again

Alternative rehab policy lost in a maze of committees