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Lives strangulated by needle and thread
27-year-old Ratnamma, a garment factory worker, was forced to deliver a baby on the streets of Bangalore. 20-year-old Gayathri was run over by the bus belonging to the Bangalore garment factory where she worked. Garment workers in Bangalore are caught in an exploitative web, reports
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Forever forsaken forest people
from Melbourne, Australia is a Consultant Endocrinologist to the UmonHon among other tribes as well as Visiting Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Havana, Cuba. While on an Indian tour early this month, he visited the Athirappilly waterfall, 70 kms from Kochi. It is his experience with the Adivasis of the near by Vazhachal forest area.
Dalit Christians: SC or not?
Are they members of a Church without caste hierarchy, or are they still Dalits, with all that
it implies in Hinduism? Dalit Christians find that despite being a numerical majority in the
faith in India, the promise of equality is as distant as before. They're taking their protests
to Parliament this winter, reports 
Flavours of another era
Resonating with the sound of pattering feet of the students on the wooden stairs and heated discussions on Beethoven, Brecht or Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, for hours over a cup of coffee, smoke from the endless number of cigarettes spiralling up to the ceiling high enough to contain at least three stories of present multi-storied buildings and a floor area to match its majestic columns, waiters in traditional uniform of spotless white and red and high, stiff hats, mixed aroma of coffee, fish fry and mutton Afghani and animated conversation between people whose ages are removed from each other by a decade — the same sights and sounds beckoned from every nook and corner. Strictly opposed to change, Kolkata's Coffee House continues to be a sure-fire draw, reports
Remote Adivasis face healthcare chasm in Kerala
Despite crores of rupees having been spent in name of tribal and other development programmes in one block of Palakkad district in Kerala, the region suffers from poor access to decent health care. 80 per cent of the adivasi population here are living in abject poverty. reports.
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What can save Kerala's small coir?
With small coir manufacturers in Kerala unable to modernise their processes, their loss has become Tamilnadu's gain, reports
Malayala Manorama exposes Kerala’s men
Six women reporters of 'Malayala Manorama' daily, travelled across Kerala state unescorted, to experience at first-hand the safety and security that God’s Own Country was offering them. reports.
For Dignity and Respect
Though numerous attempts have been made to rehabilitate sex workers across India,
not many have succeeded. Here is a success story on the rehabilitation of sex
workers in the town of Muvattupuzha, Kerala reports.
Thirst below sea level
Despite being enriched by two monsoons and four rivers, Kerala's Kuttanad region has become `a desert of backwaters' after many developmental trials, says
Something in the Air?
Australian cartoonist who visited Kerala in southern India describes its curious relationship to cartooning.
Marad can yet be retrieved
On January 3-4, 2002, five people (three belonging to the Hindu community and two Muslims) were killed on the Marad beach as the continuation of a war of words that erupted at the New Year celebrations of a local club between two youths belonging to these communities. On May 2, 2003 between 6.30 p.m. and 6.45 p.m., communalism was to show itself again.
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