Predominant official approaches ignore the prevailing land-use or socio-cultural milieu of local people whereas it is crucial to accept 'well-being' as a multifaceted concept with many different dimensions that go beyond economic well-being. In case of forest dwelling communities, it has not just been the direct loss of livelihoods that has impacted well-being but equally important is the curtailment of cultural practices, the increased vulnerability, the imposed illegality and breaking down of social networks.

Right to Free And Compulsory Education Act 2009 It is a RIGHT It is FREE It is COMPULSORY It is about EDUCATION A legally guaranteed power to a citizen. One of the seven Fundamental Rights

“The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay…Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen…”

What is needed now is a Sustainable Consumption Line, which determines whether an individual (or, extrapolated, a family, community or region) is living sustainably. Then those Above Sustainable Consumption Line (ASCL) would be eligible for actions that help or force them to scale down.

"A majority of the water harvesting structures constructed by TBS in Alwar district of Rajasthan were private assets and not community assets. Even in the case of community structures, no mechanisms were developed at the village level to ensure that benefits were shared systematically and equitably."

Local Bites interviews scholar/activist, Ashish Kothari about his book, Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, co-authored by Aseem Shrivastava.

....which party can deliver on the promise of development, prosperity, clean governance, and secure access to the basic needs of life?

A wide diversity of movements have arisen in Latin America, in four countries: Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela. Each of these has significant lessons for progressive movements in India

Illustrating an example of how bias can and often gets built into news reporting, and how a simple difference in highlighting of different facts involved can twist the tale. Even to the extent of painting the victims of an event as the villains, distracting the reader from the root causes of an issue, and advocating the wrong solutions by misinterpreting the problems.