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The Great Ventriloquist Act
The World Bank's Bad Business in India
The Great Ventriloquist Act: The World Bank's Bad Business in India exposes how India's one-track focus on improving its DBR has allowed massive environmental, labor, and human rights abuses to take place. Most appalling is the case of Vedanta Resources Plc, a company that benefitted from the removal of environmental safeguards and was able to operate a damaging copper smelter within the city limits of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu--a mere 8.4 miles away from the ecologically fragile Gulf of Mannar Biosphere reserve. Not only has the smelter been responsible for massive environmental destruction, it was the site of a massacre of 13 activists protesting its expansion in May 2018.

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Conditional Loans, Uncontrolled Misery: Doing Business in India in the Times of Corona
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought up the specter of the Indian partition as the country continues to witness the misery of large–scale human migration on foot and in deathly trains. However, the divide that emerges is not of two nation states but a widening gulf between India’s elite and millions of its second-class citizens — poor, toiling migrant workers. In the midst of this crisis, at a press conference on May 17, 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, unveiled the final tranche of the US$266 billion economic stimulus package meant to assuage the plight of the downtrodden.
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Dalit and Adivasi Women at the Forefront of the Forest Rights Movement in India
An Interview with Roma Malik and Ashok Chowdhury of the All India Union of Forest Working People
The Supreme Court of India is set to rule on a case, Wildlife Trust Vs the Union of India, which could result in the eviction of 1.9 million forest dwellers from the country's Indigenous and traditionally marginalized communities., Footnotes View all CloseThe  Zamindari System was a land revenue system introduced in p
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Legalizing Dispossession: A Tale of Two Indian Land Grabs
India's 73rd Independence Day merits introspection on the deep crisis faced by the world's largest democracy. Two recent attempts at perpetuating unprecedented land grabs, mark the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government's proclivity for legalizing dispossession and marginalization of the most vulnerable.
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Who is Afraid of the Forest Rights Act?
International civil society must continue to demand that the government of India not only defend the FRA, a progressive legislation that protects traditional forest dwelling communities, but also ensure its careful and widespread implementation., Footnotes View all ClosePersonal communication with the author on July 22, 2019 at a Bhoomi Adhikaar

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Global food shortage: Are US, IMF barking up the wrong tree?
India is being asked by the US and the IMF to reconsider its decision to suspend wheat exports. But their cited concern that export curbs will exacerbate food shortages does not hold water
The Express Tribune
What’s at Stake for India’s Protesting Farmers?
These protests are significant because they expose tensions within the Indian economy Usmaan Farooqui Last week, a massive demonstration in India turned violent as hundreds of farmers clashed with police in the capital of New Delhi. The scuffle — which occurred after protesters occupied ramparts of the historic Red Fort — overshadowed the significance of Republic Day, a national holiday which marks the day the India’s post-colonial constitution came into effect 71 years ago.
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Farmers' March: The Artists, Activists And Students Behind The Scenes In Delhi
NEW DELHI: The mobile phone of 28-year-old Janhavi, a Ph.D scholar at Delhi University, is constantly ringing on Wednesday. She rarely leaves the table at the corner of a library-cum-office in Katwariya Sarai in New Delhi, where she is making a chart and working on a laptop along with her friend Agneya.
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Cut the noise. Here's what Ethiopia says about #IndiaAfrica
As the biggest ever India-Africa Summit gets underway, the drumbeat of the historical trading ties with Africa and a shared history of struggle against colonial rule is being rolled out under the euphemism of South-South cooperation.

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