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Rachna Dhingra, social activist.

‘Court abdicated its responsibility’: Rachna Dhingra on the Bhopal gas tragedy

The social activist discusses several critical issues concerning the disaster from the survivors’ perspective.
Ajay Saini
Cover of Andamanush Nicobarese

Dangerously touristy

A free mix of fiction and lopsided depictions of reality, the book is a historian’s and anthropologist’s nightmare.
Ajay Saini
Anvita Abbi.

Anvita Abbi: ‘Indigenous languages being killed’

In conversation with the member of the Expert Committee of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.
Ajay Saini
Great Nicobar is home to two isolated indigenous communities—the Shompen and the Nicobarese—who were the sole inhabitants of the island until the government set up seven revenue villages, settling 330 ex-servicemen families (settlers) from 1969 to 1980. In picture, a rare shot of the Shompen, who are primarily fishers and hunter-gatherers.

Great Nicobar: Whose land is it?

The indigenous Shompen and the Nicobarese say they were lied to at the project’s public hearing.
Ajay Saini