I Am Woman – 1
I Am Woman Part 1 || Part 2 by Hanna Imogen Jones Many moons ago I made an unsolicited offer to the wonderful woman @Vidyut that I write a guest blog […]
Water
In memory of Swami Nigamanand
Last year, on this day, the 19th February 2011, Swami Nigamananda took the place of another sadhu, Swami Yajnanda as a part of their long struggle against illegal mining of
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Check Dams counter desertification and water scarcity
Check dams are effective at counteracting desertification and water scarcity and are simple to construct from surplus and waste materials available locally to create water bodies that are recharged by seasonal rains or snow melt.
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 5
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 When the scale of money involved is what it is, the stakeholders are not always easy to identify. Between the CEOs in their
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 4
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 People who had come from the war zones, from Lalgarh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, described the police repression, the arrests, the
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Quotes
A collection of interesting quotes by various people and from a wide range of sources ranging from books to speeches and even Twitter on occasion.
Privatizing needs
Increasing privatization of necessities means citizens are forced to make purchases from private entities that are opaque to scrutiny and unaccountable to people. It is a permanent profit.
Bhanwari devi and the character of the media
While I have not written about Bhanwari devi here, I have been following her story for a while now. One of the main reasons I have not written is that
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The Service Provider Government
I am very, very angry right now. In a country reeling with inflation, with a majority of its population under poverty, the government is set to “privatize water”. The Union
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