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Everyone's connected by Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli

The heat generated in the media on climate change issues has been put off by a cold Winter. However, R.K. Pachauri of The Energy Research Institute (TERI), the leading climate change expert has suffered some burns. Allegations of financial dealings with corporations that are the biggest polluters and violators of good environmental practices have left him groping for cover. In his defence, he makes many separations — of himself as...

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Wishing well for poor by Sreelatha Menon

A letter from SC commissioners was followed by an order of the apex court to clothe, feed and protect the homeless in night shelters The winner gets trophies, but the losers, who are the majority, are ignored. What happens to them? The political masters, for instance, are winners in a way. At least they win elections. They get to be affluent and move with the wealthy, again a victory of sorts. That...

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Cold, unfeeling city by Harsh Mander

Each night, as temperatures continue to plunge and Delhi shivers through its coldest Winter in the last decade, a few more people lose their lives on its streets. The people who succumb to the cold include rickshaw-pullers, balloon-sellers and casual workers, the footloose underclass of dispossessed people who build and service the capital city of the country and yet are forced to sleep under the open sky. They die because...

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Cold and homeless by Bharat Dogra

Recent directions of the Delhi High Court to improve conditions for homeless people housed in Delhi’s night shelters need to be widely welcomed. At the same time, it should be realised that the problems of the nearly four-million homeless deserve wider and more regular attention as the lack of basic facilities for them at a national level is simply too glaring. Pucca and permanent shelters which can be used throughout...

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The Fruits Of Tenacity by Saikat Datta, Anuradha Raman

Activists realise it takes a fight to translate democracy from thin paper to thick action In the Winter of 1997, advocate Ashok Agarwal filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the nearly 400 per cent hike in school fees. This was the year the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations were implemented and the salaries of teachers shot up. Parents trying to cope with the overall price rise were suddenly hit by...

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