The prospect of an International legal Instrument recognising Indigenous peoples, rights to self-determination has had Asian governments in a tizzy. These governments have taken the stand that

The days when the word leper was almost an invective, and the disease itself considered a scourge, are over. Patients, voluntary workers and ordinary villagefolk are labouring shoulder to shoulder to, root it out through an eradication programme

There are many in Kerala who just would not have anything to do with the obsolete official education system. They want change, and that, through people's active participation. They are the ones behind the innovative Vigyanotsavam

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans