Interview with Arundhati Roy     Stuart Freedman/Panos

Interview with Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy speaks out: on the moral police of India's anti-corruption campaign, on the silence surrounding civil wars, and on despotism and democracy.

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NI 445 - Pakistan - daring to hope - September, 2011
India

India

South Asia's giant, from the Country Profile series in our New Internationalist magazine.

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NI 442 - Climate change denial - May, 2011
Ratnamala Tekam, a widow with her two children in Mangi village, in the cotton producing belt of Vidarbha. Her husband killed himself in March 2009 amid mounting debts, hunger and crop losses.Jaideep Hardikar

Bomb drops on Indian countryside

India may be one of the world’s current economic ‘winners’ but inequality is its fastest-growing sector, reveals Jaideep Hardikar.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
Fatuma, one of JC’s community co-ordinators, at the Nettikulam shop.

Fairer than fair

Just Change India is a tea trade initiative that rights economic wrongs.

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
Kondh tribal women listen to a speech by Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi on the day the government said no to Vedanta.Biswaranjan Rout/AP/Press Association Images

Vedanta undermined!

Victory for the hill tribes of India in a David and Goliath battle.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
Adivasi women of Lalgarh - a Maoist-domained region - attend meetings armed, following police attackson them. Pintu Pradhan

Arundhati Roy – princess to pariah

Arundhati Roy's fierce critiques of Indian democracy have made her public enemy number one. But, argues Shoma Chaudhury, her story is that of contemporary India itself.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
Crops of truth

Crops of truth

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
PV Rajagopal: India's mass mobilizer Skye Hohmann

PV Rajagopal: India's mass mobilizer

PV Rajagopal seeks a return to Ghandian values and wonders what happened to his country.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
Toxic legacy

Toxic legacy

Victims of ‘India’s Hiroshima’ still seek justice

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NI 428 - Welcome to Copenhagen! - December, 2009
And justice for all?

And justice for all?

Ajit Sahi’s account of the scandalous record of the Indian State.

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009
The Kattunayakans (also know as the honey hunters) can tell from the ground whether a hive 60-80 feet up in the air has honey or not and whether it is worth the effort climbing up there. They work in teams – each team has its own range or territory which is respected by all. The group then sets out close to dusk. They harvest the honey only when it is dark – otherwise the bees are much too aggressive. They carry with them nothing more than a knife, a few sacred items for their puja, a tin to lower the honey from the tree and big cans to carry the honey home.

Honey is life

Gathering wild honey is an age-old tradition in South India. Mari Marcel Thekaekara and her husband Stan see how it’s done.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
Incandescent: Hindutva zealots rage against the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya, a Hindu ascetic, under suspicion of a terror attack.Photo: SHAILENDRA PANDEY / TEHELKA

Ripping up the rainbow

Shoma Chaudhury on the hate mongers intent on tearing up the very idea of India.

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009
A Savage Environmentalism

A Savage Environmentalism

Jeremy Seabrook on how bogus environmentalism is threatening some of India’s best friends of the environment.

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NI 421 - Put people first - April, 2009
The drugs don't work

The drugs don't work

Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills

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NI 414 - We need to think about toilets - August, 2008
Helping themselves and each other: Orissan women meet in an open forum.Photo: Marianne Lemvig, DanChurchAid

Cyclone survival

Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity

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NI 413 - Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil - July, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Pakistan - daring to hope September, 2011
Climate change denial May, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
Terror takeover November, 2009
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Multiculturalism May, 2009
Put people first April, 2009
We need to think about toilets August, 2008
Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil July, 2008
World food crisis March, 1973
World food crisis March, 1973
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