Scripting a struggle

Tribals fight for the right to write their way

Born again

The dense Melaghar forests in Tripura that were destroyed during the Bangladesh war have been revived through the efforts of the Acharya Jagdish …

Guns and poses

The Tripura government's plan to secure development for tribals

Neermahal: palace on shrinking lake

Are human beings edging out all other life forms?

Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country's geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India's total population (2001 census figures).…

Trouble in Tripura

Restrictions on jhum cultivation, large-scale immigration and timber smuggling have made Tripura an environmentally poor state

What a dump

Agartala has just one dump yard to cater to its 4 lakh residents

Pick and choose

Dams in the north-east will also ruin livelihoods

After neglecting the north-east for years, Delhi now feels the need to initiate "developmental" activities in the region. There is good reason. …

Mautak will flower

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows.…

Fatal attraction

Logjam

Whenever the Supreme Court pulls the trigger, why does it miss the target? Because governments like those of the seven Northeast states work …

At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local-based prosperity

The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats

CNG Drive

Tripura to use eco-friendly fuel from June

Joint effort

Tribal initiative to save forest

Close to famine

INDIA

Turtles in trouble

Faulty lake development design is pushing rare Bostami turtle of Tripura to extinction in its only known refuge—the Kalyan Sagar lake

Development offer

In Short

Eviction threat

Northeast scores in ecology

Return our forests

S C Tripura, a Congress party member of  the Tripura legislative assembly, talks to  Nitin Sethi about the consequences of  …