Articles by Vidhya Das

Every year, November 14 is celebrated as Children's Day. Nearly six decades into independence, however, the difference between the haves and have nots is stark. The children of the latter suffer the most, in terms of nutrition, education and overall standard of living. As such, perhaps, we have little to celebrate on Children's Day.

should also be given to the caste class and ethnic origins of the targeted people. This Kashipur: Politics will equip designers with better information of the context in which to develop the intervention and introduce safeguards of Underdevelopment to ensure that the existing local power VIDHYA DAS Debaranjan Sarangi, would be proud, he is in august company when he expresses deep concern about Kashipur, and bashes up Agragamee for the ills of this remote region today in his article

Plight of Tribals in Orissa Vidhya Das IN the backward reaches of backward and poverty-stricken Orissa, live the communities of tribal people, subsisting off the hill slopes, clutching at crumbs of employment and development thrown at them, trekking for days and miles to go to a market, trudging for leagues and leagues to get medical help, having to die to get into the papers, and slogging to feed the contractors, the landlords, the moneylenders, the politicians, that happy group of vested interests who have deemed it their right to make their living and considerable fortunes out of the land, labour and other resources of the tribal people. And yet these people dance and sing and celebrate their festivals with zeal and mirth, and roam free spirits on their bountiful hills. They own no land, they are called 'sukhavasi' (the carefree), they bear no grudge. They live a life wedded to work, and ask nothing of anybody, knowing that when their capacity for labour is over, so is their life.

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WHAT HAPPENS TO CONSUMERS?
The National Working Group on Power (composed of two former members of the Planning Commission, a former finance secretary to the government of India, three former chairmen of the Central Electricity Authority and two former chairmen of state electricity boards) has studied the impact of all these six new projects promoted by Enron (Phase 1 only). Cogentrix. AES. ST Power, Spectrum, GVK, and the Hindujas

Tribal People Vidhya Das If planners and policy-makers shrug off their biases long enough to realise that the experiences and perceptions of the people have a validity that cannot be ignored then viable strategies for conservation can be worked out.