So much in India seems out of control because local governments are not functioning well.
A SYSTEM for citizen involvement needs to be in place, says
Ramesh Ramanathan.
Campuses across the country are reimposing law and order in an indication of new resolve
to root out ragging and violence, especially against women students.
Puja Rawat
reports.
Concluding article of the series from Urban Poverty Alleviation Initiatives in India : A General Assessment and a Particular Perspective (2002), a publication of the Ramanathan Foundation.
Servicing the market borrowings of the Sardar Sarovar Nigam Ltd is a deadly game where the social
sector expenditure of the state is held hostage.
Himanshu Upadhyaya
digs deeper.
Does the IMF have a role to play in reducing poverty? Or
is it part of the reason why many countries remain poor
in the first place?
A
Bretton Woods Project
report.
Environmental jurisprudence is only slowly catching up
to the physical and mental costs of noise pollution
in urban areas.
Sairam Bhat
surveys the landscape.
M P Veerendrakumar is a staunch opponent of FDI. He predicts that the new deals signed
in the Indian media will hit small and medium newspapers and open the floodgates to
foreign control.
Simply suspending the human rights of poor women cannot improve a
suddenly over-anxious system.
Abhijit Das
warns against adopting reactionary population policies, and urges
more investment in health instead.
Following allegations of wide-spread child labour in their
business activities, foreign and Indian agri-business firms
pledge to reform themselves. An update from
The India Committe of the Netherlands.
Multinationals producing genetically modified foods attempt to
force open Third World markets, even as consumers in the wealthier
countries reject the
risky science behind their products, says
Devinder Sharma.
Subramaniam Vincent
recounts his experiences on paying living wages for
domestic labour, even as benefits for unorganized sector workers are
beginning to appear on the radar screen of governments in India.