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This blog is an attempt to highlight issues affecting India. News related to children, literacy, rural development, environment, health, and arts are gleaned from various websites and posted here along with my comments.

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Indian elephants to move from zoos

Nov 19, 2009
Elephants in India. Image Source: Theodora.com A spokesman for the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in India confirmed reports that the authority had issued an order to shift elephants from the zoos. The directive sent by by the Central Zoo Authority...

"Why I wanted to be a jungle vet…"

Nov 16, 2009
I found this story on Times Online. Dr. Prasanta Boro, and his wife Phulmoni Gogoi, are veterinarians who run the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, by the Panbari Forest Reserve and a few miles from Kaziranga National Park in...

Child labourers suffer as India ignores the law

Nov 13, 2009
India’s abysmal record of confronting its illegal ‘child labour industry’ has afflicted the lives of millions of children. India has an infamous distinction of being home to the largest population of child workers in the world, with an estimated...

Hippo Water Rollers – Africa

Nov 4, 2009
Many of us who have access to clean water tend to take it for granted. Be it for drinking, cooking, or bathing. All we have to do is turn the faucet and we have water. Unfortunately, for a large number of people in the developing and under-developed...

Jarawas – close to extinction

Nov 1, 2009
The Jarawa tribes are one of the four nomadic hunter-gatherer Negrito tribes inhabiting the Andaman islands. (The other three Negrito Tribes are ‘Great Andamanese’, ‘Onges’, and ‘Sentinelese’. ) Jarawas resisted contact with the outside world until...


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