Now what?
Rolling on
A natural secret
Policymakers don't need to go too far to eradicate poverty. The solution is as close as is a village well to a villager
Mandla Brimful of thirst
Average rainfall: 1,300 mm Irrigation: 2% of gross cropped area
Sarguja Losing battle
First district for tribal development Rampant deforestation Malnutrition and starvation deaths
Dungarpur A 'common' death
Once rich in forest and grazing land Now known as 20th century desert 68% population 'marginal and unemployed'
Phulbani Access to poverty
Sal forest worth: Rs 30,000 crore 85% population dependent on forest 65% people below poverty line
A hard rain’s falling
Sayantan Bera tells the story of a man and a state, paralysed inside the remote islands of Sundarbans
Hunger games – it’s the real India show
Tricks of diminishing returns
Clever calculations and the great wall of bureaucracy
Promoting integrated village planning
Self-sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.
Job half done
25 per cent funds allocated to national rural employment scheme remain unspent
Millionaire mukhiyas
Money pumped in development schemes in Bihar is giving rise to a new breed of village heads, flush with money and flexing muscles
When villages plug in
A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …
Some nets and sunshine
Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats
Scheme against jobs
Government is bent upon shrinking jobs for the poor by fundamentally changing the rural employment guarantee scheme against the advice of its …
The god of ecological things
Time to be different
The laboratory of development
Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix
When markets do work
The road ahead
Jute, coir and waste material are set to make rural roads economic and eco-friendly
Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …