Big dams, more displacement

Wrong banishment

Follow up

Get out

Same old story. Dam threatens to displace tribals to appease rich farmers

Documentary on post-tsunami situation in Sri Lanka

Bottlenecks

Chaibasa villagers wary of Essar's rehab hype

India's rehabilitation policy under scanner yet again

Alternative rehab policy lost in a maze of committees

In court

It's pent up anger

Tribals protest against decades of injustice in Kalinga Nagar

Patkar populism lights sparks on Zee TV

Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar fended with dexterity the provocative questions posed to her in Zee TV's Aapki Adalat.

Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

No more bribes, Gujjars tell foresters

The prospect of being kept out of forests they have occupied for 50 winters, on the pretext of environmental conservation, the Gujjars of Uttar …

Rehabilitating land

Innovative technology and consolidation ofscattered land holdings has made agriculture profitable in UP

Rising waters

Activists against the Narmada dam gear up to face the submergence of the first set of villages

Orissa okays mining in tribal territory

In a move that threatens to dislocate the lives of millions of Orissa's tribal people, the state government has decided to allow transfer of land …

Violent homecoming

10,000 families from Delhi's Yamuna Pushta slums were 'resettled' in Bawana this March. NIDHI JAMWAL went to meet them

Sick berth

The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims

Eye opener

Book>> Land Acquisition, Displacement and Resettlement in Gujarat, 1947-2004 by Lancy Lobo and Shashikant Kumar Sage, 2009 Rs 895

Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers

Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major …

Exit villagers

Indicted by self

Rhino diplomacy

Time running out in Manibeli

Twice ousted

Burnt fingers

It is a great shame when the World Bank tells us how to rehabilitate our people