Tag: India

Asian indigenous peoples face discrimination and marginalization, heavy assimilation pressure and violent repression by state security forces.

Monsanto claims that the genetically modified cotton seeds they sell are superior. So why are so many people trying to switch?

The policy is heavily controversial. Not all of those that have been shot are poachers.

Technology has helped to facilitate these movements locally and disseminated information about them throughout the world in a way earlier generations of activists could have only dreamed about.

For more than a decade and a half, Monsanto has extracted illegal royalties from Indian farmers, trapping them in debt and triggering an epidemic of farmers' suicides.

Once manufactured, there is nothing to stop India from deploying nuclear weapons against Pakistan.

India has been told that it cannot go ahead as planned with its ambitious plan for a huge expansion of its renewable energy sector,...

The bulls are kept in small enclosures and often given alcohol before they are released and tackled by groups of men.

One day, in one life, when the attractions of the sensory world have lost their charm, when we begin to see the truth of the Buddha’s words – that desire is cause of all suffering; when television, video games, sex, drugs and alcohol fail to fill the inner emptiness; when we sit in a pub with a friend and ask aloud, what the point of it all is.

For several years, students and job applicants in India were paying large bribes to manipulate their test results for entrance into medical schools and government positions and now suspects involved are mysteriously dying. Students have mostly been targeted.