Articles by Bharat Dogra

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The motivation and the ideological basis of the revitalisation movement contradict the interpretation of the tribal revolts as 'revivalistic or 'nativistic'. The readiness of the tribals to accept the diversion from their tradition which the revitalisation programme necessitated was motivated by the vision of recreating the blissful polity which they believed they once possessed in the past and it was not just nativism.

vironmental groups means that any talk of green politics within the Indian context is premature. Therefore it would be. wholly inappropriate to term either the tokenism of one person elected to Parliament, or the demonstrations of strength through the rounding up of large numbers of people, much as political parties do, at mass rallies, as an illustration of the alternative politics which one has come to expect when the term 'green' is used.

THE imposing roadside mansions, including a luxury restaurant, on the stretch of Delhi's ever-busy Ring Road around the Shalimar Bagh bus stop give the impression of prosperity, Turn to the road towards the railway crossing and you will see shop after shop of glittering steel utensils. This is Wazirpur, a big centre of steel utensil manufacture. Move into one of the roadside lanes, however, and you will come face-to-face with the stark reality of a huge, sprawling industrial slum.

Bharat Dogra While the gastro-enteritis and cholera epidemic in Delhi had been in news headlines for some time, equally and even more serious outbreaks of epidemics, mainly among undernourished and malnourished sections of people having poor access to housing, sanitation and medicare, have not received due attention.

FORESTRY Gujarat: Not a Model to Emulate Bharat Dogra IT is customary for various official reports and reviews of forestry practices to repeat some suggestions over and over again, specially in the context of supposed welfare of forest-labourers and gatherers of forest produce. As evil contractors and middlemen are supposed to be the source of all exploitation of these people, the catch-all suggestions are for "expanding the network of forest co-operatives" and "speeding up the work of forest corporations" so that contractors and middlemen can be eliminated. These suggestions are presented and reviewed in such a way as if these are synonymous with the welfare of workers. In other words once the greedy middlemen have been eliminated and some work taken over by the Corporation' and some other by 'co-operatives' the welfare of forest labourers and miner forest produce (MFP) gatherers is taken to be achieved. The question of what exactly is the condition of workers under the new organisational set-up and how exactly it has changed is generally not examined, often not even raised.