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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 open, but narrower in ... groups, subsistence farmers, anti-communalists all over India. It was not easy to distribute my writings in the early years but, over ...

5 Aug 2003 7 minute read

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Pariah Beats

... Sounds of dissent / INDIA Dalits in India are using traditional music to subvert ...

5 Mar 2003 5 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

Harvesting The Raindrop

... villages located in the worst droughtaffected regions of India had coped with yet another year of belowaverage rainfall. ... droughts be called natural disasters? Not any more. Not in India. They are 'government-made' disasters. Over the past hundred years or so, ...

5 May 2003 4 minute read

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Worldbeaters

... people call him the 'butcher of Gujarat'. To others he's India's homegrown Hitler. Whatever the label, there is little dispute that ... his home state last year. India is no stranger to communal violence: the subcontinent has seen its share ...

5 Mar 2003 5 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

Big Dams, Big Trouble

... A growing movement, especially in India, but also in many other parts of the world, is now seeking to revive and ... The first is just to use electricity more efficiently. In India, as much as half the electricity generated is lost before it gets to ...

5 Sep 2001 15 minute read

This article is more than 17 years old.

To Open A Crack In History

... of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Struggle) in India was with us on the streets of Prague in September 2000, protesting ... there in the indigenous communities, villages and farms of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil. And all those who face the ...

5 Mar 2003 4 minute read

This article is almost 16 years old.

Vis Navaratnam

... - 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, they will offer raw ...

5 Jul 2003 5 minute read

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The Facts

... at a Union Carbide agrochemical plant in Bhopal, central India, caused the death of 8,000 residents and caused permanent and ... Anger with Union Carbide sweeps India. Photo: Gisele Wulfsohn / Panos ...

5 Jun 2000 5 minute read

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The Facts

... country. The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Congress in India, The Liberal Party of Canada, the PRI in Mexico, the Liberals and ... the Hindu fundamentalist BJP is part of the Government of India and the Christian Coalition is an important influence on US politics. ...

5 Jun 2003 7 minute read

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Shares In The Sky

... allows unlimited emissions growth from the South. China and India both have huge coal reserves, and Southern emissions are rising rapidly. ... less than that of Europeans. 4 So wouldn’t forcing India, Bangladesh and Somalia to sign up to a global treaty to cut ...

5 Jul 2003 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Action

... corporate power and its doings. The corporate crime beat in India is covered by www.corpwatchindia.org , in the US by ... Hampshire College in the US. A number of other websites from India to Australia have sprung up in support of the original satire site and ...

5 May 2002 6 minute read

This article is more than 16 years old.

Building Bridges

... journeyed from what is now Saudi Arabia to Iran, onwards to India, where they stayed until 1947. The end of British rule brought them to ... 1500-1600 The Moghal dynasty is established in India. Ottoman architect Sinan builds the Blue Mosque complex in Istanbul. ...

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