Now what?

Rolling on

Root cause

Adulteration is an effect of warped pricing

2001 onwards

A systematically careless government

Hypertension in Dhankot

Residents from Dhankot village, Haryana, believe that chronic alcohol abuse among men is stressing out families and therefore leading to …

Callous forest law

Deficient programme

Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?

Same indifference

Why authorize it?

Indigenous civil engineers

Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels as the Delhi administration …

What car is this anyway?

Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta

Foisting failure

Haryana's Sukhomajri village exemplifies how government intervention can ruin a successful community-based programme

A village betrayed

The people of Salehpur get a raw deal from the forest department of Haryana in return for the services rendered by them

Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Sukhomajri at the crossroads

The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra

From bricks to black dust

As traditional coal-run brick kilns in Kaithal turn polluters, moves are afloat to shift them out of villages

Death pits darken green fields in Haryana

Carbon dioxide trapped in pits built for tubewell motors in Haryana's green revolution districts have killed hundreds of farm-workers. Scientists …

The acre-feet fuss

But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!

Partners in prosperity

Sukhomajr, a village in Haryana, has come to symbolise how community efforts at natural regeneration can improve both the forests and the people'…

Tackling rape and sexual violence

It is time we had a national body, not merely our politically appointed, generally toothless  Womens' Commissions, with trained, dedicated …

Gender balance gadget

States turn to dubious technology for saving girl child

Jhajjar's bitter harvest

Askew

As Parliament mulls the Seeds Bill 2004, there is intense opposition to it. It's likely the government will redraft it. sopan joshi and sourav …

How NREGA helped Panihari village