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1 Jul 2005 11 minute read

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... Sweeping shit: this woman in Gujarat is one of India’s 800,000 toilet cleaners. Stan Thekaekara ‘In the rainy ... cleaners are on the lowest rung of the caste system in India. They are despised by everyone. They experience absolute exclusion from ...

1 Jul 2005 7 minute read

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Caste out

... a degree in fashion and the youngest, Indira, named after India’s former Prime Minister, is still at school. Davinder works as a ... the living room and on the walls hang wooden artefacts from India and a large framed photograph of the family in front of the Taj Mahal. ...

1 Jul 2005 3 minute read

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Action and worth reading

... Email: [email protected] [email protected] INDIA The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) works to ensure that India and the international community recognize that Dalit rights are human ...

1 Nov 2005 4 minute read

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Garbage blues

... is all about? If so maybe we’re better off in India where we don’t yet have sophisticated garbage disposal rules – ... This is not a constructive way to think. This isn’t about India and Japan or the Third World and First World. This is about the lives and ...

1 Apr 2005 12 minute read

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The waves that woke the world

... any government.’ Lasanda Kurukulasuriya INDIA: Caste rises from the graves When the tsunami hit the beaches of ... at first but soon their frequency could not be ignored: India’s lower-caste Dalits (once called ‘untouchables’) were being ...

1 Jun 2005 1 minute read

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Arindam Mukherjee

... taken in the temporary shelters at Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, three months after the place was hit by the tsunami on 26 December 2004. ... received a media fellowship from the National Foundation for India for my long-term photographic project on Indian coalminers. ...

1 Apr 2005 17 minute read

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Currents

... Kurukulasuriya INDIA: Caste rises from the graves When the tsunami hit the ... at first but soon their frequency could not be ignored: India’s lower-caste Dalits (once called ‘untouchables’) were being ...

2 Jul 2005 5 minute read

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View from the top

... support for minorities through figurehead appointments. In India it’s a fine art. But in Kocheril Raman Narayanan (or KRN as he is known), India’s first and only Dalit President, they got more than they bargained ...

1 Oct 2005 6 minute read

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The poverty of America

... require continuous human sacrifice. People in India often ask me whether poverty exists in the West. I tell them it is ... visitation. But it has a different face from the poverty of India. It is hard to describe, to those who have never been out of India, the ...

1 Oct 2005 6 minute read

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Tsunami business

... I write for? Through the 1970s, many bingos in India funded crucial work, supporting people’s battles for human rights. ... decades later. We in ACCORD (with indigenous people in south India) received invaluable support from ActionAid. Then came the tsunami. ...

1 Nov 2005 1 minute read

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‘Drink Coca- Cola’ wall painting

... Transnational corporations often plaster India with billboards, ads and wall paintings without much thought about the ... It was shot in Chennai (formerly Madras), a city in south India famous for its water shortages. The image captured the ubiquitous ...

1 Oct 2005 3 minute read

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Silent revolution

... huggers’ – were sown in the early 1980s in northern India and the forests of the Himalayas. For three years Sunderlal Bahuguna and ... banks of the Sharvaty River in the Western Ghats, southern India. The reasons for this stemmed from the decision by the British ...

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