Best price for my garlic
She missed it by one day. Padma Bai, 46, farmer from Tirla village of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh (MP), sold her garlic produce for Rs 17 per kg the day before she first came across a computer. When she found out that the going rate was much higher in …
Protest over port
over 6,000 fisherfolk, farmers, tribals and artisans took part in a protest march in coastal Maharashtra recently against the setting up of India's largest industrial port at Vadhwan by Peninsular & Orient ( p&o; ), a multinational company. Campaigners say that Dahanu, where the port will be located is one …
Whose apocalypse is it?
HAVING an attractive, alliterative title is a prerequisite for popular books today, but it is Arthur Bonner"s subtitle that is seriously misleading. Averting the Apocalypse is not about "social movements in India today". Rather, it is about a particular subset of activists connected with them -- the educated upper-middle class, …
