In the absence of the party chief Akhilesh Yadav, leaders of the Samajwadi Party on Sunday convened a legislature party meeting in the Assembly constituency. In Lucknow, several SP leaders, including MLA Shivpal Yadav, reached the party's office and chalked out their agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Budget session which commences on Monday and is slated to continue until …
There is a village in the rainforests of Southeast Asia that I have visited on and off for over 40 years, doing long-term anthropological research. The village I regularly visited comprised about 350 people all living under one roof, in a traditional longhouse that was typical of central Borneo at the time. With the forests gone and the rivers polluted, …