Saviours turn killers

Ungreening the revolution

A programme initiated with much drum-beating, the green revolution has not just backfired but even eroded traditional systems of farming. Farmers …

Potential quakes

Vicious grip

Metering by the time of day

The rulers nouveaux

Madhya Pradesh took a head-start in implementing the 3-tier panchayati raj. But lack of finances might just undo the transfer of power to the people

Reserved for tigers

Exhaustive study of Munda tribal society

THE MUNDA OF CENTRAL INDIA - AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR SOCIAL ORGANIZATION Robert Parkin Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price not stated

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Health check-up for fields

Madhya Pradesh farmers to get soil health cards

Major battle for minor stuff

Trilbals dependent on the jungle's gifts fight it out in Bilaspur district

Learning made easy

The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …

Mammoth problem

Survivors' hopes rise

One step ahead

Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh will be the first in the country to grant right to information to its people

State proposal faces axe

Arresting tactics

A social activist who investigated the Bastar forest scam lands up in police custody

Facing eviction

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

To feed the cattle of the West

Extensive soya bean cultivation in Madhya Pradesh to supply fodder to the West has cut a swathe of degradation

The contours of repression

The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project

The range of rage

How the villagers of Pujara Ki Chowki foiled hamhanded attempts of the state forest department to force-start a plantation on a forest already …

Down with the reservoir

Scuttling scabs

The days when the word leper was almost an invective, and the disease itself considered a scourge, are over. Patients, voluntary workers and …

Vibratory blues for khajuraho

Scaling political heights over Narmada