-The Times of India A Nagpurian who had appeared in a state government engineering exam conducted by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission(MPSC) has been able to secure a photocopy of answer sheets of his theory papers under the RTI. This is a landmark judgment and henceforth other candidates too will be able to check whether they have been evaluated properly. Nilesh Madankar had appeared for the Maharashtra Engineering Service (MES) examination early this...
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Dantewada's dilemma by Smita Gupta
The tribal people of Chhattisgarh are in an extremely dangerous situation, caught as they are between the state forces and the Maoists. THIRTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Soni Sori, an Adivasi schoolteacher from Chhattisgarh, was arrested in Delhi on October 4 on charges of acting as a conduit between the Essar group and the Maoists, the former accused of giving “protection money” to the latter. On October 7, she moved the Delhi High Court to...
More »Judicial remand for Adivasi woman in ‘protection money' case by Aman Sethi
She was accused of acting as courier between Maoists and Essar group Soni Sori, an Adivasi woman accused of acting as a courier between the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Essar group, was remanded in judicial custody by the first class judicial magistrate, Yogita Vinay Wasnik, here on Monday. Ms. Sori was arrested in New Delhi on suspicions that she served as a conduit for transferring funds between Essar...
More »‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’ by V Shoba
A tiny road flanked by lush turmeric and maize fields veers off the state highway from Dharmapuri to Harur in Tamil Nadu towards Vachathi, a tribal village that has hungered for justice for nearly two decades after an irreparable tragedy destroyed its peace. Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills...
More »Decadal journeys: debt and despair spur urban growth by P Sainath
The re-classification of villages and towns, and the changes this brings to the nation's rural-urban profile, happens every decade. Yet only Census 2011 shows us a huge turnaround, with urban India adding more people (91 million) than rural India (90.6 million) for the first time in 90 years. Clearly, something huge has happened in the last 10 years that drives those numbers. And that is: huge, uncharted migrations of people...
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