Our syllabi (for training forest officials) still have manuals written during the Raj S K Mukherjee Acting director, Wildlife Institute, Dehradun Why do you still train foresters in horseriding

The birth pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon

Hardly any proper law exists to protect the rights of the people against development related displacement

The declared rehabilitation goals never match the chicken feed that finally reaches the oustees

Greenhorn conservatism in India has led to untold miseries for tribal people

...cried the NGOs, oustees, social scientists and mass leaders in unison. Neither the secretive methods of the government nor the general policies laid down in the draft were acceptable to them.