Review of Janani: Mothers, Daughters, Motherhood edited by Rinki Bhattacharya; Sage India, New Delhi, 2006; Pp 200, Rs. 280.

This paper looks at a number of questions about the social impacts of large dams. It does not set out original or integrated findings in these matters. Rather, the material here comes from experience in a number of roles in relation to a number of specific projects. [This is one of 126...

This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago, complemented by results from government surveys of recent arrestees...

The river Balasan near Siliguri carries the natural resources like stone, sand, boulders. People live on the riverside and are involved in work like collection of stones and sand, crushing the stones into different shapes and sizes and loading them into vehicles. These raw materials are...

On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met for a five-day conference on large dams under the rallying cry of “Rivers for Life.â€As...