Feature Article

Alienation from traditional agricultural practices has ruined the economy of the Dangs

In Australia's Queensland state, school children are fighting to save the bilbies. The bilby, a marsupial that lives in the rivers, is threatened by continuing hunts and attacks by cattle. Now, the

The systematic exploitation of the Dangs' forest wealth by outsiders is institutionalised in a colonial soap opera

It is an anomaly: the privy purse was abolished 24 years ago, yet, here, in the Dangs, they still exist. The British ruled in the Dangs under the foreign territories regulations. In 1947 it acceeded

The Dangis have been systematically stripped of their wealth and their rights and today they rank among the poorest

Corruption finished off a movement which could have unlocked the door to prosperity

Nepal's controversial Arun III dam becomes the first World Bank bankrolled project taken up for re scrutiny by the Bank's new Inspection Panel an ombudsman body with teeth

Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch

On January 16, 1994, 2 human rights activists, Gopal Siwakoti and Rajesh Gautam filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court under Article 16 of the Constitution which recognises the right

A lonely wind moans eerily through empty houses and deserted streets, rattling a broken window here, a halfhinged door there: 350 people once lived here. Today, 35 km from Mandvi, Pyaaka is a ghost