5 Jul 2003 4 minute read
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... Soviet Union and the beginning of “liberalization” in India, the English-language publications became, not more ... groups, subsistence farmers, anti-communalists all over India. It was not easy to distribute my writings in the early ... we have become part of a rich network of resistance, in India and beyond. And there is much to resist – the ...
5 Jun 2003 7 minute read
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... unlimited emissions growth from the South. China and India both have huge coal reserves, and Southern emissions ... times less than that of Europeans. 4 So wouldn’t forcing India, Bangladesh and Somalia to sign up to a global treaty ... 2004. Contact: [email protected] 1 Terry Friel, ‘India rejects pressure to do more on greenhouse gas’ ...
5 Aug 2003 7 minute read
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New Internationalist 359 August 2003 Sounds of dissent / INDIA Dalits in India are using traditional music to subvert the caste ... of Dalit villagers to the voting booths in Tamil Nadu, India. Photo : Julian Silverman 'NO-ONE will say this openly. ...
5 Mar 2003 5 minute read
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... villages located in the worst droughtaffected regions of India had coped with yet another year of belowaverage ... droughts be called natural disasters? Not any more. Not in India. They are 'government-made' disasters. Over the past ... world, rainfall is variable and rainy days are few. In India, for instance, 50 per cent of the rain falls on about ...
5 Mar 2003 5 minute read
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... and corrupt bureaucracy. A growing movement, especially in India, but also in many other parts of the world, is now ... The first is just to use electricity more efficiently. In India, as much as half the electricity generated is lost ... estimate that big dams contribute less than 10 per cent to India’s grain production: Power Politics (South End Press ...
5 May 2003 4 minute read
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... people call him the 'butcher of Gujarat'. To others he's India's homegrown Hitler. Whatever the label, there is little ... murder of hundreds of Muslims in his home state last year. India is no stranger to communal violence: the subcontinent ... gizmo freak. 'One of the first users of email in India,' he admits. During the recent election he ...
5 Jul 2003 5 minute read
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... at a Union Carbide agrochemical plant in Bhopal, central India, caused the death of 8,000 residents and caused ... afford to pay for them. Anger with Union Carbide sweeps India. Photo: Gisele Wulfsohn / Panos Between 1992 and ... blaze at the Shree Jee International shoe factory in Agra, India. 15 Mine disasters – Over a three-week period in ...
5 Jul 2003 6 minute read
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... tortured the indigenous people and allegedly shot Spier. India Governments and big development banks seem to think ... of several women in Veldur, a fishing village in western India, dragged them into waiting police vans and beat them ... four times more expensive than any other power source in India. Boston Nor does corruption and intimidation happen ...
5 Mar 2003 4 minute read
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... - can do the clinical tests. So far, Thailand, Brazil, India and Malaysia have said that they'll provide laboratories and scientists. Brazil and India have some manufacturing capacity. As for Singapore, ... After talking to all private pharmaceutical companies in India, these companies have agreed to produce selected ...
5 May 2002 6 minute read
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... from what is now Saudi Arabia to Iran, onwards to India, where they stayed until 1947. The end of British rule ... 1500-1600 The Moghal dynasty is established in India. Ottoman architect Sinan builds the Blue Mosque complex ... of the Qur’an. 1800-1900 The ‘Mutiny’ in India is crushed. Indian educationalist, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ...
5 Jul 2003 3 minute read
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... 5 Ancient N African civilization the focus of extremes in India (5) 6 Biblical patriarch’s support to Ammonite leader ...