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Why is Canada selling asbestos to India despite a domestic ban on the toxic mineral?
More than 50 countries have banned asbestos products but India cannot get enough and is importing the mineral from Canada. Is India investing in a future health crisis?
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, an internationalist for all times
Were he alive today, Faiz Ahmad Faiz would have, all at once, been thrilled and alarmed by the fast-changing world order and the shaking hegemony of Western imperialism and its local linchpins.
How indeed can a lover of Faiz's poetry, even a very imperfect one as myself, witness the so-called Arab Spring and the toppling of dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali without thinking of his famous poem Hum Dekhenge (We Will See)?
Women's Worlds 2011 interview: Devaki Jain
Women's Worlds 2011 is a major international conference taking place in Ottawa-Gatineau from July 3 to 7, 2011. It is 'a global convergence to advance women's equality through research, exchange, leadership, and action' with speakers and performers from a diversity of backgrounds and countries. In the weeks before WW2011, interviews of some of the main participants will be published in rabble.ca. We are proud to be the exclusive online media sponsor.
The Long March of Janadesh
The Long March of Janadesh in 2007 from Gwalior to Delhi in which 25,000 Padyatris fought for their land rights. Inspired by Gandhi, another nonviolent march of 100,000 is planned for 2012.
A Film by Hans Jürg Pfaff from ProDok Film -- Switzerland.
I Paid a Bribe
I Paid a Bribe is a project of Janaagraha -- a Bangalore-based non-profit organization. The ‘I Paid a Bribe’ initiative utilizes crowdsourced information to identify instances of corruption across India. Essentially, the project aims to decipher corrupt governmental services and work with local authorities to affect change. By sharing and circulating corruption-related instances amongst the citizenry, the hope is that the Indian government will be influenced into taking action against corruption countrywide.
Information for the project is collected via citizen reports anonymously submitted online.
http://www.ipaidabribe.com/
http://twitter.com/IPaidABribe
