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Threat to a valley's silence

Silent Valley, one of the few remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical evergreen forests in India, is once again testing the resolve of environmentali

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The people's leader

E.K. Nayanar, 1919-2004

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A backlash in Kerala

A development vision that has set aside the objective of social justice and concentrated on making Kerala a private capital-friendly State takes a bea

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A red-wash in the South

in Thiruvananthapuram

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Hoping against hope

THE most interesting aspect of the 2004 elections in Kerala, where the BJP is yet to gain a foothold, is that in all the 20 constituencies in the Stat

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A minority power crisis

In Kerala, political parties claiming to represent minority interests face the challenge of retaining their base even as the growth of the BJP is upse

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A private tea plantation in Wayanad. Workers in the tea and coffee plantations in Mananthavadi are struggling to survive as the company they work for has been under lockout for nearly two months.-

Tribal misery

WAYANAD has the highest concentration of Kerala's tribal population, which forms 17.1 per cent of the total population of the State. According to K. N

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A private tea plantation in Wayanad. Workers in the tea and coffee plantations in Mananthavadi are struggling to survive as the company they work for has been under lockout for nearly two months.-

Tribal misery

WAYANAD has the highest concentration of Kerala's tribal population, which forms 17.1 per cent of the total population of the State. According to K. N

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In `evergreen' Wayanad, women queue up for drinking water in front of a tanker.-

The cascading effect

AT several places in the predominantly rural district of Wayanad, some with exotic names such as `Parudeesa' (Paradise), local traders, doctors and ow

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The dried-up bed of the Kabini river, at the inter-State border near Pulpally in Wayanad. A tributary of the Cauvery, it is one of the three east-flowing rivers of Kerala.-

A man-made drought?

THE east-flowing Kabini, so far a perennial river on the border with Karnataka, is now almost dry and farmers at Pulpally said that the wind brought i

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The Advani roadshow

L.K. Advani's Bharat Uday Yatra, which started off from Kanyakumari on March 10, is essentially designed to advertise a tactical shift from Hindutva i

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Kerala's plight

A failed monsoon brings distress to Kerala; its second longest river, the Bharathapuzha, is virtually dry, and Palakkad district faces the worst droug

R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Palakkad Photographs: C. Rateesh Kumar