DDA's Controversial Role Sipra Maitra The basic objective of DDAs land development and housing policy was providing maximum shelter to the urban poor. But the organisation's activities have in fact...
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Sandip Bandyopadhyay Workers building Calcutta's prestigious Metro Railway Project who have had to put up with atrocious working conditions all these years have now been served unfair retrenchment...
Victor Das Ecology and the environment cannot be looked after by sitting in capital cities, delivering homilies and issuing directives. It is the forest-dwellers, the tribals who have an age-old...
Making of the Hyderabad Riots Asghar Ali Engineer Politicians, land-grabbers, anti-social elements and communal tensions all contributed to the genesis of the Hyderabad riots in which Hindus and...
dwellers do not have any pecuniary interest in protecting the forest which in many cases let them condone the criminal elements absorbed in felling forests for the town-based timber merchants. Their...
Vahini. It was particularly the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Vahini which encouraged the fisherfolk to form an organisation of their own. Thus was formed ihe Jal Shram ik Sangha which began to fight...
part of the respondents have resulted in gross distortion of census data. Scholars using the distorted data are bound to reach incorrect conclusions.
Two 'Missing' Women of Karimnagar K Balagopal Two young activists of a women agricultural labourers' organisation were abducted and killed in the reign of N T Rama Rao who never thought of...
Jacques Vallon Bush no longer considers himself the president of the US but as the global president who must perpetually carry the big stick to teach the Kiplingesque lower breeds their place in the...
her effort, but also of the judicial officer's impatience with her evident lack of a sense or that august institution's notion of relevance and irrelevance. And yet she had no reason to worry about...
Indu Bharti Bihar has finally abolished the 'panidari' system by which fisher folk and others plying their trade on a long stretch of the Ganga in Bhagalpur district had to pay debilitating taxes to...
The Bloody Trail Ramjanmabhoomi and Communal Violence in UP Asghar Ali Engineer The wave of communal violence engineered all over the country in the wake of the BJP's 'rath yatra' and the Vishwa...
and Ghati Mamu Bhanja in the Mantola police station area and aimed at and shot people inside their houses. The victims included Mohammad Nasim, 40, who was climbing up the stairs of his house. Even...
GATT, GATS and Ethnocentricity in MNCs Brussels Draft Agreement on Services Binod Khadria The Draft Agreement on Trade in Services drawn up in Brussels in November last year raises a number of...
AI Report on Oinam IN October 1990, the Amnesty International (AI) completed its study of 'Operation Bluebird', the name given to a counterattack by the Assam Rifles in Manipur of a violent raid on...
