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Hetram Beniwal, one of the leaders of the Kisan Mazdoor Vyapari Sangarsh Samiti.-

Determined to fight

SURATGARH town in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan is 70 kilometres from the District Magistrate's office in the district headquarters. In normal time

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The wife (right) and sister of 22-year-old Mangilal Bishnoi, who was killed in the police firing.-

Suffering in silence

IN village 5 KD - named after the Kodi Bandh Distributary - in Rawala tehsil, 5 km away from Ghadsana, a pregnant Suman wept silently for her husband

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Victims of coercion

A two-day tribunal in Delhi discusses the misery that coercive population policies and the two-child norm have inflicted on the weaker sections in man

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi

Caste injustice

The court stops a Haryana caste panchayat from separating a married couple, but the family fears that powerful caste forces may organise a social boyc

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Jhajjar

Hunger deaths or...

A FACT-FINDING team of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which visited the Kishangaj and Shahbad blocks of Baran district concluded that the

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Press workers' protest

Hindustan Times Limited's decision to dismiss 362 workers draws criticism from trade unions.

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi

Dealing with insecurity

THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) has brought out a report on the various social insecurities that characterise the current era. The report,

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Dying for work in Baran

The Sahariyas, a tribal community inhabiting Baran district of Rajasthan, are fighting to stave off hunger and death; 15 of them, mostly malnourished

Text and Photographs: T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Baran

New paradigm, old strategy

The United Progressive Alliance government's new "sterilisation-centric" approach to family planning, with a big role for the private sector and resum

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Televised trauma

The live telecast of a `panchayat' that decided the fate of a woman caught between two husbands raises questions about the media's role and women's ri

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Meerut

The women packers of the Super Bazaar cooperative stores.-T.K. RAJALAKSHMI

A blow for women's rights

The Delhi High Court upholds the principle of equal pay for equal work, in its judgment in a case filed by women workers of a government-run cooperati

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The population bogey

Disregarding the well-established principles of demography, the Sangh Parivar continues to thrive on myths about the growth rate of the Muslim populat

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi