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How development excludes Adivasi peoples
Spaces need to be created for inter-generational learning for young Adivasi peoples, where adults in the community can impart local knowledge
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A warning note
A song that is an ultimatum to the authorities that the community will protect what is rightfully theirs
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Indian Students Mail 20,000 Plastic Food Wrappers Back to Manufacturers
Producers, importers and brand owners — not municipalities — are responsible for collecting plastic waste left by their products.
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We need to go beyond self-interest or we’re doomed: Jean Drèze
There is a natural complementarity between research and action which means using non-violent, democratic means to bring about change.
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What cities must do to stay sustainable and resilient
Citizens’ campaigns in large cities are pushing their governments to bring together the questions of urban infrastructure, ecology and governance.
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Does Raising Questions on the Rights of Adivasis Make Me a ‘Deshdrohi’?
The (Samatha) judgment was meant to provide safeguards for adivasis to control the excavation of minerals in their lands...
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Heritage in every grain
"We give each farmer (signing a pledge to use organic methods) two kilos of seed; they bring double the quantity back the next year, ”
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Organic Food Is a Topic of Much Debate, but What Does “Eating Organic” Really Mean?
A bottom-up movement is essential therefore to apply pressure on the powers-that-be at least over a period of a few decades.
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ACT one: Anti-dam, pro-people
"... We should also start coming up with new ideas, showing alternatives (to livelihood).”