Model development

Every village has its own way of protecting the forests, but each one is a success story

Born at 44

Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart

Message in a baton

The decades after Independence saw rampant destruction of trees. This was followed by years of drought. It was then that the villagers realised …

Indigenous people in India and the web of indifference

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring together the stories of exclusion, oppression, and at times, recognition

Update

Court rules in favour of tribals

Tribal governance, Salwa Judum and Maoists

Maoist insurgents killed Mahendra Karma, founder of the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign, in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Saturday. …

Salwa Judum

The face of state government’s counter-insurgency strategy

Essar gets Bailadila prospecting lease

On The Warpath

They prefer to be called the 'forest castes'. They are the 2,000,000-odd villagers living in some 10,000 villages across Orissa. After …

It is misinformation that chareterizes the tiger debate

Unhappy Bani

March of real estate threatens one of the last patches of native Aravalli forest near Delhi

Letters

Rewa tribals suffer high handedness

Landless people encroach upon private estate in Kerala

National Centre for Advocacy Studies' new report 'Sponge iron industries'

Report>>Sponge Iron Industries Issues and Campaigns, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune 2007

Land of discord

Origin of the relentless strife in Bodoland lies in a series of blunders, right from colonial times

A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine

Nandigram and CPI(M)'s insensitivity to rural sector

News 360° - Briefs

Out of form

Learn to walk lightly

Unruffled flakes

Pig iron plant of Sesa Goa pollutes South Goa; firm says expansion will take care of problems

A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi

Left in peace (L.I.P.)

Forget ideological shibboleths. The market is the great equaliser. Even politically