"Bio fuel is this marvellous idea that we should make food not in order to eat it but to burn it" - Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved* *****“We don’t drive cars or tractors. Then why...
Two young Muslim girls from villages of Murshidabad, West Bengal were congratulated by the President of India, Shmt. Pratibha Patil on the 17th of January for their determination to protest against...
More than 10 years after the first World Social Forum took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the latest South Asia Social Forum is already underway in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Like all Social Forum events,...
Standing on the edge of a paddy field covered in water which reflected the grey sky above, creating a single frame, Geeta completed the picture story for my assignment to get success stories of women...
Blog posts by Banamallika and Swapan. Both were one of the first groups from NGOs to get across to Sikkim after the earthquake that rocked the himalayan region, leaving a trail of destruction and...
Recently, I travelled to Bijapur in Karnataka to meet some Muslim women activists. At that time, I did not think the trip would compel me to ask myself a very basic question: what does it mean to be...
Samir Amin is an Egyptian economist and a noted Marxist thinker who was in India on March 26th 2012 on ActionAid India’s invitation to speak at a workshop on “The Era of Finance Capital and...
Close to two years since the much feted Right to Education Act came into being, the status of school education continues to be plagued by lack of awareness, assertion and access, especially among the...
The plight of school infrastructure and education in Bihar was laid bare at a recent public hearing, questioning the tall claims of substantial progress by the state towards making schools and...
In one of the biggest pushes to highlight the rights and struggles of the homeless people in Chennai, one India’s rapidly growing metros and the capital of Tamil Nadu...
Internet giant Google's india office gave a grant of INR. 4,60,00,000 /- to ActionAid India in its mission to fight bonded labour and human trafficking in India. This is part of a grant of USD 115...
Now I will only go to school. Now I will not take goats for grazing! Meo Muslim girl's in Mirzapur today can now chant this rhyme without fear. This is a story of how it happened
