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From the Mob to the Community: the Alternative to Developmentality
It requires a vibrant Community to protect the commons from individual appropriation.
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The development plan that could end up sinking Lakshadweep islands
Why cause irreparable damage to the ecology and generate large-scale livelihood pressures?
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Re-imagining food: Do we have the stomach for it?
Hunger ... is not due to lack of food, but lack of justice
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Collective Dreaming: Democratic Visioning in the Vikalp Sangam Process
What is our vision of a better future? What are our answers to questions of poverty, hunger, energy insecurity, and other deprivations?
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The arrogance of the ignorant
Forests inhabited by Adivasis are some of the best conserved in the subcontinent ... and ‘indigenous knowledge’ is invaluable.
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Under Modi, India Has Witnessed an Unprecedented Chomping of the Earth
The natural environment is the daily lifeline of ... forest-dwellers, fishers, farmers, craftspersons, pastoralists, urban poor.
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Success Story — How they reduced packaging waste in Auroville, India
A Significant reduction in packaging waste for consumer products is possible with a little bit of effort and consumer awareness.
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Be a Radical Alternative – A Collage
Free minds that think differently ... are like little drops of rain in this drought of gradual self-destruction.