India

Victory for the hill tribes of India in a David and Goliath battle.

Filed in: India Indigenous Peoples Mining

Arundhati Roy’s fierce critiques of Indian democracy have made her public enemy number one. But, argues Shoma Chaudhury, her story is that of contemporary India itself.

Filed in: India

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

Filed in: Agriculture Biotech India

PV Rajagopal seeks a return to Ghandian values and wonders what happened to his country.

Filed in: India

Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on the state of the Indian nation in middle age.

Filed in: India

A huge new scientific experiment plans to go looking for tiny particles in the middle of India’s oldest Biosphere Reserve, moving mountains of rock and earth as it goes. Tarsh Thekaekara has his doubts about what is being done in the name of pure science.

Filed in: Conservation India Science

The arrest of a doctor who works with poor communities in central India, on trumped-up charges of associating with ‘terrorist’ Naxalites, has sparked worldwide protest. Mari Marcel Thekaekara appeals for support.

Filed in: Human Rights India Indigenous Peoples Minorities

Dinyar Godrej on what truly inspires.

Filed in: Burma India Israel Mali Palestine Philippines Social Change South Africa

Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

Filed in: Human Rights India Minorities Nepal Netherlands Women

Robert Neuwirth tells what he learned from his two years of living with squatters on three continents.

Filed in: Cities Housing India Poverty

Profiles from the frontlines: the politics of survival in some of the world’s grittiest slums.

Filed in: Activism Cities Egypt Housing India Nigeria Philippines Poverty Sri Lanka Venezuela