Bastar Needs You
Bastar. An abstract name of some strange place where there is Naxalism. And therefore a place to be avoided, to be dreaded and mostly ignored. Not a land of a […]
Minerals
Spouting Vedanta, Modernity and tradition
When a “senior journalist who has written several books on development” abdicates either sanity or integrity or both and starts spouting propaganda that has been rejected by the people it
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Land, loss and lunacy – Niyamgiri’s story of India out of sight
A lunacy drives India’s development. Vast untouched treasures of nature are discarded with scant thought on the altar of a mythical development. Lakhs of development hit Indians are reduced to lives of despair.
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Poverty in mineral rich regions
It is something I have noticed a few times now. Regions rich in mineral resources are poor. No idea why this is so, but one has to wonder if mining
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Do the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong? – Media disinformation in action at FirstPost
Recently, FirstPost, which is a kind of news media thing published an article titled “Why the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong” which ought to have been an informative thing
Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 1
An article by Arundhati Roy that I respect highly. Originally published in theOutlook Magazine. Republishing here so that more people read it. Also a kind of public apology for writing
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The Future of Education
The article “A new look at child abuse” details this kind of harm and I think it is worth reading to understand what exactly happens because of our schools other
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