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22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year

Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone

Tribals arrested, lathi-charged for demanding rehabilitation

Madhya Pradesh government starts dam construction without clearances

US seeks strict scrutiny of World Bank lending to hydroelectric projects

External evaluation process to ascertain effectiveness of lendings recommended

'Maps of resource-rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent …

Here I stand, come hell or high water

Forty-five-year-old Keshubhai of Manibeli has come to symbolise not only all that is wrong with state power, but also the Narmada Bachao Andolan'…

Trouble in Tehri

A sudden eviction notice to the people of Tehri town, warning of an imminent flooding, has incensed the public

Developing distress

The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon

Fight for survival: MP's Chutka village holds out against proposed nuclear power project

Dadu Lal Kundapa has galvanised 54 tribal villages to say no forced evictions for the second time in four decades

Damned forever

Participants at the first international conference of dam-affected people in Brazil vow to intensify their fight against large dams

Building against odds

Despite a host of reasons against its constuction, Pakistan decides to go ahead with building the Diamer dam

Nowhere to go

The new land Bill will make it easier to displace the poor in the name of development, say experts

"The state cannot deprive people"

WALTER FERNANDES, who has worked extensively for tribes and on tribal issues, talks to SURYA SEN

Tribals demand scrapping of proposed dam

Villagers assert a dam project to provide drinking water to Udaipur city would displace about 12,000 people, and they will oppose it firmly.

A valuable study of

Big Dams, Displaced People: Rivers of Sorrow, Rivers of Change Edited by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 120

Raping the forest for ephemeral fashions

Forest products have become a fad in industrialised countries and are used to make a wide range of things, from ice creams to shampoos. For the …

Thick-skinned policies

Dozens of families displaced from Gujarat villages in the vicinity of the Sardar Sarovar dam years back have returned to their original homes …

Undermining existence

Extensive coal mining in Raniganj, Bihar, has not only displaced communities but has also affected the lifestyle of the locals

Struggling to survive as

Marginalised by developmental processes, local people are fighting for their right to manage forests

Damned Projects

State operations surrounding three hydel schemes are causing controversy. In the Uttaranchal hills, there are allegations of repression. In …

No headlines, no rehabilitation

Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media …

Illegal eagles

The Madhya Pradesh government's decision to call in the private sector to convert state forest lands into captive plantations, impinges on people'…

A new paradigm

Taming The Waters·Satyajit Singh·Oxford University Press·Price Rs 395

90 days of Sudan strife: Country saw decade’s displacement in just 10 weeks, says analysis

Unlike conflicts in Blue Nile or Darfur, this time the displacement is nationwide; Khartoum worst-affected