As condescending as ever

The government's draft tribal policy is insensitive to most matters concerning tribals

Developing distress

The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon

Five-star exploitation

Wither civil society?

Many have become even more marginalised after 25 years of Left Front rule in Bengal

Laid out and bare

The price of mindless relocation

Struggling to survive as

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

Damned Projects

State operations surrounding three hydel schemes are causing controversy. In the Uttaranchal hills, there are allegations of repression. In …

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 travesty of justice

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

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

Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

Caught in a crossfire

A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists' ire

Sea change

Dam construction facilitates

Statehood first, ecology later

Jharkhand's leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not …

Forests march

A walkathon through 5 states traverses through a rich crop of traditional conservation methods -- and a thicket of disputes

Tehri dam oustees to be rehabilitated again; threat of landslides

Fiery volcanoes fact of life for Filipinos

Natural disasters are trying times for people and a test of government ability and determination to handle crises. In the Philippines, the …

Confrontation mine

The Paroja-Kondha tribe of southwest Orissa are waging a battle to save their forests and rivers from mining companies and a profit-driven government

Fishing in troubled waters

People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada's biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural …

Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?

Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …

Draft rehabilitation policy charts no new courses

The latest draft on rehabilitation intends to help people, literally

Janadesh 2007: Satyagraha for self-reliance, dignity