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The People of Tuticorin versus Sterlite Copper

How the anti-Sterlite struggle is finding strength in numbers.

| Jun 29, 2018

Bhopal: Three decades of struggle

Survivor-activists of the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster continue their fight for justice.

| Dec 02, 2014

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Online networks have only marginally promoted civil society activism in Southasia

| Jul 11, 2013

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How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between