Turtles threatened

Powering people

Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …

Iron wills speak

Lost Eden

For over 2 months now, the hills of Simlipal in Orissa have been inundated by fierce monsoon showers. Thick foliage dripping water on the …

Holding out the olive branch

The tribe that disappeared

For over five decades, the Durua tribe in Orissa was not recognised because of a mistake in the Centre's list of scheduled tribes made in 1951...

When participation holds sway

Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village

More than intoxicating

Yet government policy has forced many people to give up mahua -- their nutritious staple food

Relish it

Staying healthy is not a daunting task if one regularly eats neem dishes

The pitfalls of protection

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good …

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

The virtual reality of being Indian

The remoteness of 190 villages in Orissa's undivided Koraput district is an elegy on governance. Over five decades, living in islands inside huge …

Polio - alive and kicking

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant …

Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins

Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed

Cloudy days for solar cooker

Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …

Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Pantabhat - well slept rice

Rice has been a staple food of West Bengal from antiquity and thus was grown in abundance all across the region. At one time, 60 varieties of …

Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

Saving forests for Posterity

Community-based systems in Orissa ore effectively managing local forest resources, but they need support to overcome the conflicts and …

Fighting it out

Groups of tribal women in Orissa are fighting against authorities to improve their lot by consolidating the trade of minor forest produce

A great sweep

Feisty women hill broom gatherers force the forest department to relent in a Orissa village

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

Fights for space

Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …

Together they conquered

A village committee in Orissa improves the fate of its poverty-stricken people with dedication and determination

The monsoon always catches the government unawares

First there was the mounting suspense. All of India awaited with bated breath the arrival of the south west monsoon. Would it arrive? Miraculously,…