Over the last decade, it had become increasingly hard for Sartama Devi to source water around her home in Patara village of Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. Pooja Rana, a farmer who is also Patara’s panchayat chief, said that the water taps drawn from the springs in their hamlet are functional for barely an hour or two in the morning. Bringing chal-khals …
One night in December 2000, Mohammad Yaqoob says he was selected by the Indian army for patrol duty along the Line of Control, the border dividing the Indian and Pakistani-administered regions of Kashmir. We did not even get compensation for it.” “The Indian army provides compensation for land where bunkers and camps are built, but not for the land where …
Politicians are not the popular lot among the poor Adivasi voters holding the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act job cards in Adilabad district. No politician had bothered to get a canal constructed for supply of water to our fields,” complains Gedam Ramu, revealing one of the major reasons for politicians to be quite unpopular among them. Ramu is …
