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Yusuf (standing, third left) with children at the Naroda camp.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Victim as volunteer

Yusuf, a victim of the post-Godhra riots, instead of wallowing in hatred and self-pity, chooses to help fellow victims get over the trauma.

In search of Gandhi and Godse

The communalisation process under way in India clearly has an impact on people of Indian origin around the world.

Rampyari and Saroja Devi.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Surviving the streets

For the homeless on the streets of Delhi who battle against poverty, police highhandedness and perverse intrusions, the kinships they forge among them

A people savaged and drowned

The report of a fact-finding team documents the colossal suffering imposed on the people in the Narmada Valley in the name of development.

Heeraben with her husband, at the Kalol relief camp.-PICTURES: VIJAY NAVGAIN

Inventing borders in Gujarat

Hostilities unleashed by the post-Godhra violence a year ago have hardened into boundaries between communities in rural Gujarat.

Villagers who had come from all parts of the country at the public hearing organised by the Right to Food Campaign in Delhi University on January 10.-ANU PUSHKARNA

Tales of deprivation

The public hearing in Delhi on the right to food testifies to a stark reality: basic prerequisites for a life of dignity are still beyond the reach of

In bonded servitude

The system of bonded labour, though outlawed, persists deep behind feudal bonds of custom and economic dependence. The plight of 13 tribal communities

Baseerbibi, with her nephew, at the Mehsan civil hospital, on March 2. Her sister was among the 29 Muslims who were massacred at Shardarpur village during the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat.-SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/ AFP

Voices of collective conscience

A summary of the details brought out by independent citizens' groups on the wanton subversion of relief and rehabilitation in Gujarat.

Voices of collective conscience

A synthesis of the major findings of independent citizens' groups which attempted to study Gujarat post-Godhra.

Savaged by tradition

The Jhajjar tragedy is a pointer to the unending plight of Dalits who are kept ensnared in the most socially degrading traditional occupations.

Choices on the streets

For many of Delhi's homeless people, the city's night shelters are their only stable anchor. Closing them down leaves the destitute with no home and n

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