| Sreelatha Menon: 2012 and after for Ammu | 22-NOV-09 |
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| National Trust’s insurance scheme and a legal guardian programme gives hope to millions for parents who worry about the future of their mentally-disabled children. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: A new lesson | 15-NOV-09 |
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| A small rally of barefoot children wearing little dhotis marched through a small village of Kurumbilavu in Thrissur district 70 years ago. They were chanting: Him him pray...him him pray. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: The importance of being earnest | 08-NOV-09 |
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| Last week saw something that must have made the hearts of many Delhiites stop. It was Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh snubbing the Delhi government’s claims of being green. The minister, who was to unveil the Capital’s climate change agenda, chose to call a spade a spade. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: In praise of opium | 01-NOV-09 |
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| “Relieve my pain or let me die,” said a patient at Hyderabad cancer hospital, writhing with pain. This sentiment is felt by most patients suffering acute pain. While there is remedy to prolong the life of patients suffering from terminal illnesses like cancer, a majority of doctors provide no treatment for pain. Of the 1.2 million cancer patients who die annually in the country, 80 per cent suffer severe pain. In most cases, a bit of morphine is the only remedy. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: Winning a fight | 25-OCT-09 |
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| Villagers had to fight to get unemployment allowance worth Rs 14 lakh in Sitapur’s villages though this is something they are assured under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: The charity virus | 27-SEP-09 |
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| Does it help if your left hand doesn’t know what your right hand is doing? When ordinary people do charity, the world hardly gets to know. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: A drought of seeds | 20-SEP-09 |
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| While Norman Borlaug was celebrated for hybrid seed varieties, several small groups of farmers are today searching for those rare traditional seeds that are still being sown in some places in preference to hybrids. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: Millets, the food for security | 13-SEP-09 |
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| When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Waifad village in Wardha on June 30, 2006, farmers of the Shetkari Sanghatna led by Vijay Jaywantia handed him a wishlist on behalf of the farmers of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. |
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| EIA's see-no-evil policy | 06-SEP-09 |
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| The system of monitoring the environmental impact of projects has failed and so there is little hope for the self-certification process. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: The school at the doorstep | 30-AUG-09 |
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| For some children in this country, a school is a room in the neighbourhood where a teacher tells them a story every day. They don’t go to school in a bus like other children. The school almost comes to their doorsteps. |
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