Jharkhand Panchayat Elections

Elephants cause havoc in Dumka

So does the state forest department...

Big deal

Industry's learnt the development shibboleths

Get on a diet coarse

If projects are for people

Then why are their voices being muffled?

Class act

Not enough beds

Disparate narratives

Environmental history writing is beginning to look beyond colonial forestry

Humble filter makes a comeback

Traditional bio-sand purifier can filter arsenic which most commercial water purifiers fail to do

The promise of Dayamani

Adivasi activists, however successful in mobilising grassroots struggles, have seldom been able to make a dent in Parliament. Will Dayamani Barla …

Reclaiming retail democracy

Bundled in a sacred basket

Tribal farmers in Jharkhand use mora made of rice straw to store grains

Noamundi is easy to mine

Great depression of lac

Biggest producer Jharkhand worst hit—and clueless

Jharkhand tribals build their own government homes

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Lalit Mehta (Jharkhand)

Women strike back

India's first alliance of women affected by mining takes shape

Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

Consigned to flames

Central and state authorities fiddle while underground coalfields burn in Jharia in the state of Jharkhand

A smile for the camera

At the capitals of three mining hotbeds, AVINASH KUMAR finds a battle to capture public imagination  

Lac grows on plant

Scientists find a way to cultivate lac that is less labourintensive and more profitable

No two droughts are alike

Changing gears

Acquisition made easy

Bull to bull's eye