Children of Budhudehi, a Paharia Adivasi village in the Dumka district,
prefer to graze cattle than study.
“The primary school in the village is closed as the teacher never comes to
take classes, but children should not roam idle. So, we ask them to graze
cattle instead,” says Malti Paharia, a h
Her son and daughter-in-law had fled to Midnapore town on June 15, the day
when Maoists torched Ramgarh police station. But septuagenarian Renu Ray
refused to leave her homestead land at Amladanga. Since then, the old woman
is living by herself, with hardly anything to eat.
Her eyes glistened wi
Even as the continuing global economic meltdown has led to curtailment in
job opportunities, Maoists in Bihar are making the most of the situation.
Unemployed youths are being lured ~ with a promise of a salary of Rs 2,500
to Ra 3,000 a month ~ to join as cadres. The monthly package as announced
Well, life for a bihari is a lot different from an average Indian. In a
state which has highest percentage of population below poverty line and
lowest rate of literacy, you can't expect life to be great. There are social
issues of caste, political issues of crime and violence and economic issues
of
On 18 June 2009, in a massive operation, the central government of India rushed
6 companies of Border Security Force (BSF) and 4 teams of CoBra special
security force to Lalgarh, in West Midnapore region of the West Bengal state of
India, in a massive operation against the local tribal populatio
�In Bihar, teachers complain to the Dalit parents that their children wear
dirty clothes and they smell in the classrooms�
�During a school visit in Rajasthan, while asking who gets beaten up regularly
and why, children immediately pointed out to a student. He was a Dalit�
�Teachers don�t give
If Lalgarh is burning today, government of West Bengal is responsible for the
same. It is only due to their failure to protect its own people from the
atrocities committed on tribals by none other than their own police force and
ruling party cadres. Torture and harrashment of tribals of Lalgarh
Sub:
Ref: Your twenty minute televised address to the Nation on 4th June, 08
Most Respected Sir,
I convey sincere gratitude on your addressing the Nation to take the people of
our country in to confidence by directly talking to them in an effort to
convince them of the economical
Dear Friends,To those who think that they are not affected by environmental
pollution often brush aside our claims as 'phantom claims of jollawallas'.
In the early 90's an IB guy from Jamshedpur visited me at our office in
Chaibase. He wanted to know why we are opposing uranium mining in Singhbhum.
In a secular European democracy like France where the separation of the state
from the church is total and irreversible, the least sign of people wearing
religion on their sleeves in the form of peculiar clothing (burqas) or symbols
(crosses, swastikas) revives scary memories of religious persec
Roma is the first woman in UP to have been booked under the National Security
Act on charges of Maoist links. A DU postgraduate and a freelance journalist
working with tribes in the Naxal infested region for a decade now, she warns
that if problems of tribal are not solved through a democratic p
National Agenda for Muslims Development
Respected Dr. Singh
Widening the jobs and educational opportunities to the millions of its citizens
in a cost effective manner should be the national priority for India in the new
millennium. Muslims constitute a large segment of those Indians who continue
Dear all,
There has been some discussion about the circular issued by the Department
of Personnel and Training on how Information Commissions should conduct
hearings. The sum and substance of the circular is that benches constituted
by the Central Information Commission and other multi-member State
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