Environment

 From Kumarappa's writings

On the virtues of a natural life If we have to utilise as food the nutritious elements found in nature, we may get gur from palm trees that grow wild on uncultivable lands and obtain the whole

Publication Date: 
30/03/1993
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Environment, Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi, Ecology
India

 Labourers become quarry managers

Women quarry workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once worked as bonded labour.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
S Gopikrishna Warrier
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Mining, Bonded Labour, Women, Rural Development, India
Poverty

 The saga of the big brother in a little village

Anna in Marathi means brother and Kishan Baburao Hazare is lovingly known as Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi, the village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district that he helped transform from poverty to

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Gopal K Kadekodi
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Rural Habitat, Rural Development, Poverty, India

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