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19 • NO. 3 |
MAY-JUNE
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A satellite image of Purvanchal fields adjacent
to the city of Gorakhpur |
Shikha Trivedi’s
Purvanchal
This issue of Himal takes the reader on a tour of
the heavily populated, economically challenged heartland
of India. Purvanchal, which makes up the eastern half
of Uttar Pradesh, stands mute testimony to an alarming
trend: the growing class divide between the bullish
states of the Indian southern and northwestern regions,
and the northern bank of the Ganga plains. Writer
Shikha Trivedi, who began as a print journalist and
has lately been engaged in bringing out emotionally
charged television footage from the Indian grassroots,
has traveled many times to the area. She believes
that Purvanchal and the adjoining state of Bihar together
are blighted by an enormous volume of human misery.
She believes it is important to bring this to the
notice of the rest of India and Southasia. |
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| The Southasia
Trust, GPO Box: 24393, Kathmandu, Nepal. Phone: +977
1 5547279, Fax: +977 1 5552141 |
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