Source: ZNet On the Orissa Mining Scam By Satya Sagar December 10, 2009 ‘Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel’ read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper. At first I didn’t take it seriously and thought it was another self-promoting piece of propaganda from [...]

To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy – and it has chosen the Maoists by Arundhati Roy October 30, 2009 The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. [...]

Business As Usual: Vedanta Mine Plans Threaten India’s Poorest. An ecosystem destroyed. A way of life gone forever. Private profit and public pain.