Articles
Sep 01 2003
Accountable at home
The India Together editorial
Sep 01 2003
Wrong, but still right!

Despite an inspection confirming substantial violations of its lending policies in a Coal India project, the World Bank's board recommends only minimal action, and claims local people gained nonetheless.

Sep 01 2003
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Myopia over radio
A paranoid government is getting ready to gingerly license 200 more FM frequencies when what is available is twenty times that number. An editorial from The Hoot.org
Sep 01 2003
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WTO: End of the road?
The Cancun fiasco shows that the industrialised countries have failed to bring in meaningful trade reforms in agriculture, says Devinder Sharma.
Sep 01 2003
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The great trade robbery
With the world's economic powers poised to strike at the food security of the developing world once again, Devinder Sharma looks back at the devastation wrought by WTO arrangements on agriculture so far, and urges the Third World to take a more resilient line.
Sep 01 2003
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Assault on autonomy
As the government shows Doordarshan's director the door, Prasar Bharati member B G Verghese protests the intrusion by the administration into constitutionally protected domain.
Sep 01 2003
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Special or segregated?
Lakshmi K argues that we must integrate mentally disabled children in the mainstream schooling system with modifications, as opposed to segregating them in separate schools.
Sep 01 2003
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Did India win or lose at Cancun?
Bilateral deals will be harder to resist;; India must strengthen the home front as well as regional partnerships, says Suman Sahai.
Sep 01 2003
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Delhi's citizens acting en-masse
Arvind Kejriwal on how over one hundred and fifty citizens have filed applications seeking information about PDS ration records in Delhi's Food and Civil Supplies department.
Sep 01 2003
Seventh Kali dam shelved
A proposal for the last dam on Karnataka's Kali river has been abandoned, says the state's Industries Minister R.V.Deshpande. The state's apex environmental regulator makes several forward-looking promises.
Sep 01 2003
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Stopping virtual water trade
Punjab needs water, and that means some of the water-guzzling crops must go. But questions of food security and corporatized agriculture confront the state's proposed shift, says Sudhirendar Sharma.
Sep 01 2003
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River links and judicial chinks
At every turn, the Supreme Court has had two options, and always the justices leaned towards the unconvincing one, says Videh Upadhyay.
Sep 01 2003
Access to money for the urban poor
From Urban Poverty Alleviation Initiatives in India : A General Assessment and a Particular Perspective (2002), a publication of the Ramanathan Foundation.
Interact: What about bank red-tape and corruption?
Sep 01 2003
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K R Puram's local elections
A township on the eastern outskirts of Bangalore was among the first to run into council elections after the Supreme Court ruled on new disclosure rules for candiates. Public Affairs Centre looks at whether candidates and officials actually followed due process.
Sep 01 2003
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AP's largest signature campaign
An Andhra Pradesh federation is aiming to transform the state's panchayats and municipalities into genuine Local Governments.
Sep 01 2003
The transformation of Mendha-Lekha
Rasika Dhavse reports about success in self-determination and natural resource conservation at a Maharashtra village.
Sep 01 2003
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Tackling urban poverty
From Urban Poverty Alleviation Initiatives in India : A General Assessment and a Particular Perspective (2002), a publication of the Ramanathan Foundation.
Sep 01 2003
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"You too belong here"
Marien Mathew meets a confident and yet vulnerable Padma Shri Malathi Holla, a very special athlete.
Sep 01 2003
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Women's Ways of Seeing
A multimedia curriculum developed by a Mumbai non-profit aims to have students critically explore the relationships between women, beauty and advertising. Geeta Seshu reports.
Sep 01 2003
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Images that promote fear
Event-driven media perpetuates the hostility that marks relations between India and Pakistan, says Kalpana Sharma.