Tonight, as you finish your sumptuous dinner and take to your soft bed in your comfortable air conditioned room, try to imagine their plight. The plight of those millions who will go to sleep under the stars, with no soft pillow under their head, no blanket to cover them, no food in their belly, no walls to protect their dignity, those millions who have been condemned to a life of wretched misery and impoverishment.
In Odisha entire villages of tribal people have been evicted from the only place they called home for hundreds of years. Apparently they did not know that the forest belonged to the government and to the giant corporations who mine copper. These corporations are not ungenerous, in return for the land and livelihoods that they have usurped, they have provided color TVs and satellite cable connections. View full article »