Facing eviction

A World Bank project might leave over three lakh tribal families homeless

Paying a high price

Forty thousand dams have rendered 60 million people homeless the worldover

AP dam project under fire

Decision to start work on Indira Sagar dam opposed

Tribals demand scrapping of proposed dam

Villagers assert a dam project to provide drinking water to Udaipur city would displace about 12,000 people, and they will oppose it firmly.

A valuable study of

Big Dams, Displaced People: Rivers of Sorrow, Rivers of Change Edited by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 120

Raping the forest for ephemeral fashions

Forest products have become a fad in industrialised countries and are used to make a wide range of things, from ice creams to shampoos. For the …

Thick-skinned policies

Dozens of families displaced from Gujarat villages in the vicinity of the Sardar Sarovar dam years back have returned to their original homes …

Undermining existence

Extensive coal mining in Raniganj, Bihar, has not only displaced communities but has also affected the lifestyle of the locals

Struggling to survive as

Marginalised by developmental processes, local people are fighting for their right to manage forests

Simply Put: The climate story

Simply Put: Diamonds are for whatever!

Ousted by an IIT

'Green signal?'

The Supreme Court gives its go-ahead for work on the Narmada dam

Killing the Musi river

DAM CONSTRUCTION

A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

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 …

Illegal eagles

The Madhya Pradesh government's decision to call in the private sector to convert state forest lands into captive plantations, impinges on people'…

A new paradigm

Taming The Waters·Satyajit Singh·Oxford University Press·Price Rs 395

Dual approach to dam projects : Narmada Maiya

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

Rainforest malady

Profiting from ecological subsidies

Damning disclosure

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

United effort

To halt dam-linked dislocation

Here I stand, come hell or high water

Forty-five-year-old Keshubhai of Manibeli has come to symbolise not only all that is wrong with state power, but also the Narmada Bachao Andolan'…