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Climate change, as was pointed out in this column last week, has been primarily driven by carbon emissions from human activity in the past two and a half centuries. The industrial age has thrown more carbon di-oxide into the atmosphere than was done in the past 650,000 years. The effects of this massive infusion will last us for millennia to come and change the entire ecology of planet Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
The Search for Energy’s Holy Grail
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Categories : Energy and Environment, The Post Column
Can we weather this storm?
21 02 2007This article started off my column with The Post (http://thepost.com.pk) which is an English language daily newspaper published from Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan.
It was published on 7 February, 2007.
You can find all my writings for The Post at http://thepost.com.pk/PrevColumns.aspx?src=Aniket%20Alam
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Categories : Energy and Environment, The Post Column
Coal & End of Oil
21 02 2007These two books look at the history of human interaction with these two hydrocarbon energy sources which are central to our lives. The combined review was published in Down to Earth in 2006.
Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History, Arrow Books, London, 2003;
Paul Roberts, The End of Oil: The decline of the petroleum economy and the rise of a new energy order, Bloomsbury, London, 2005.
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Categories : Book Review, Energy and Environment
India Stinking & Dalits in Dravidian Land
21 02 2007-
Dalits in Dravidian Land: Frontline Reports on Anti-Dalit Violence in Tamil Nadu (1995 – 2004), S. Viswanathan, Navayana, Pondicherry, 2005, pp. xxxviii + 318, Rs. 300.
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India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh and their Work, Gita Ramaswamy; Navayana, Pondicherry, 2005, pp. xii + 108 + 8 pages colour photos, Rs. 100.
I reviewed these two books together for HardNews magazine in 2006. India Stinking is perhaps a book everyone should read. It documents, in all its horrendousness, both the conditions of life of the shit cleaners as well as social and governmental responses to their existance.
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Categories : Book Review, Media, Politics
Cultivating Development
21 02 2007This book is a very critical examination of development aid using the tools of anthropological research on a DFID (British Govt) project in India over a decade or so. This review was published in 2006 in the magazine Down to Earth.
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice, David Mosse, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2005, pp. xvii + ii (maps) + 315, Rs. 380, ISBN 81-7829-601-2 (originally published Pluto Press, London, 2005). Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Book Review, War and Imperialism
War and the Media
21 02 2007This book is a collection of articles by journalists and academicians analysing the role of the media in conflict situations. This review was published in 2005.
War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7, Daya Kishan Thussu, Des Freedman (eds.), Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2003, pp. xiii+266. (ISBN: 81-7829-333-1(India-PB)).
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Categories : Book Review, Media, Politics, War and Imperialism
People2People Carbon Trading
11 02 2007This report was part of a media fellowship given by ICRISAT, Hyderabad to write on environment and water. It recounts an attempt to transcend the Government to Government deadlock in the Kyoto agreement by initiating people to people carbon trading and getting individuals and institutions to take responsibility for their carbon emissions.
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Categories : Energy and Environment, The Hindu reports
Nepal Maoists, January 2005
11 02 2007Here are two reports on Nepal from January 2005. The first one is an assessment of the Maoists and the political situation just before the takeover of power by King Gyanendra. The second article is on the discrimination faced by Dalits in Nepal and the political implications of that.
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Categories : Marxism and Marxists, Mobilisation and Movements, Politics, The Hindu reports, War and Imperialism
River Interlinking
11 02 2007These two articles were published in February 2003 as a special report on the then proposed river interlinking scheme for India.
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Categories : Back-of-the-envelope Economics, Energy and Environment, Politics, The Hindu reports
Hyderabad Muslims
11 02 2007These three articles were published in April 2003, as a special report on the Muslims of Hyderabad.
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Categories : Muslims and Islam, Politics, Pop goes the Culture, Religion, Secularism, Secularisation, The Hindu reports, Wo/Men, Feminism, Gender
World Social Forum, Mumbai, January 2004
11 02 2007The following are my reports from the World Social Forum held in January 2007 in Mumbai published in The Hindu. I was part of the team of journalists from this paper assigned to cover this event.
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Categories : India - Pakistan, Marxism and Marxists, Media, Mobilisation and Movements, Politics, The Hindu reports, War and Imperialism, Wo/Men, Feminism, Gender
Hello world!
9 02 2007This blog is to collect all my writings which have been published till now. As well as a few which may never be published. But that will come later.
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