19-11-2009The Indian government has ordered hundreds of paramilitary troops into eastern parts of the country where Maoist rebels have increasingly been taking control, writes Mark Tully, former BBC Delhi correspondent. There is tremendous resentment among the tribals at their neglect by successive governments, he adds.
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18-11-2009Women's political participation is a fundamental prerequisite for gender equality and genuine democracy, says Ines Alberdi, executive director, UNIFEM in an interview with Pamela Philipose. She avers that a lot has been achieved but there is still a great deal more to do.
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16-11-2009In a discussion held recently in India’s national capital, Nobel Peace Prize winners emphasised on the need for peace in today's world. They felt that that if the humanity wants to reap the harvest of peace and justice, there is a need to sow seeds of non violence, reports Swapna Majumdar.
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14-11-2009The world is going through its worst ever food crisis with over a billion people going hungry. The global economic crisis is only aggravating this crisis, says Dr Gavin Lindsay Wall, FAO India Representative. In an interview with OneWorld South Asia, he talks of the concrete steps needed to be taken to eradicate poverty and hunger.
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11-11-2009Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour. A change in consumption habits is seldom effective unless it is backed up by government action, writes celebrated journalist and climate crusader George Monbiot.
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Image: George Monbiot/ Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
09-11-2009Pulka and her friends after receiving training under a DFID programme in solar power technology came back to bring light and power in their villages. Known as India’s female barefoot solar engineers, today these tribal women are engaged in spreading solar power far and wide, writes journalist Alex Renton.
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Image: The barefoot solar engineers of Tinginaput, India. Left to right: Talsa Miniaka, Pulka Wadeka, Meenakshi Dewan and Bundei Hidreka/ Photo credit: DFID/ Abbie Trayler-Smith
07-11-2009Peace process should become a tool to achieve peace and not be seen as an instrument of delaying conflicts, says Suhas Chakma, Director, Asian Centre for Human Rights in an interview with OneWorld South Asia. It’s a misconception that human rights organisations in India do not condemn violence by armed insurgent groups, he adds.
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Image: Suhas Chakma/ Photo credit: Anna Nath/ OWSA
05-11-2009As the clock ticks to climate change summit, the world is ill-prepared to bring climate-renegade US on board. Is a bad deal in Copenhagen better than no deal? asks Sunita Narain, Director of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.
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03-11-2009Journalist Rahul Bedi does a stark recall of India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots where Hindu mobs massacred 3,000 Sikhs following the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on 31 October. Twenty-five years later survivors await justice.
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Image: Riots victims wait for justice/ Photo credit: Soutik Biswas/ BBC
31-10-2009Prakash Thosre, an Indian Forest Service officer in Maharashtra, was roped in to spearhead the National Green Corps project that has come to occupy a place among the top three states in terms of impact and value additions. In an exclusive interview with OneWorld South Asia, he talks of the project’s achievements.
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