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Hardly any proper law exists to protect the rights of the people against development related displacement

The declared rehabilitation goals never match the chicken feed that finally reaches the oustees

Greenhorn conservatism in India has led to untold miseries for tribal people

...cried the NGOs, oustees, social scientists and mass leaders in unison. Neither the secretive methods of the government nor the general policies laid down in the draft were acceptable to them.

A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce

Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze for the first time

SUDDENLY, everything was gone: home and hearth, families and friends. The earth had danced a tarantella. And thousands in Marathwada joined the army of the living dead. How much time is enough to

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

A MAJOR disaster is not enough. It takes censure and orders from the courts to shake the somnolent bureaucracy into action. The still-traumatised Marathwada quake victims have created history by

While the Marathwada quake victims waited for succour, lucre and its distribution ensnared the NGOs, the voluble critics of government's callous habits, in attritious squabblings. S Parasuraman's