Eco-Socialist Front
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Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive
Even now, nearly a year after the worst effects of the pandemic were seen, hundreds of sanitation workers and manual scavengers are permanently employed in digging up human remains for trade.Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive: Pragya Akhilesh, Anil Balmiki, Sujith Balmiki and Dinesh Hela, 24 March 2022https://thewire.in/rights/lockdown-effect-manual-scavengers-turn-to-selling-human-bones-simply-to-survive… Within…
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Two Letters by Political Ecologist AK Roy Drawing Attention to the Environmentally Destructive Vishnugarh Pipalkoti Hydro-Electric Project
Letters to the World Bank and the VPHEP Inspection Panel on the dangers of continuing with the project.
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हिंदुत्व के राज में गंगा के लिए 5 साधुओं की मौत | Under Hindutva Rule, 5 Saints Dead Due To Their Efforts To Save the Ganga
Several Sadhus from Matri Sadan Ashram in Haridwar have sat on hunger strikes to save the Ganga from environmental degradation. Since 2014, two Sadhus have died because of hunger strikes, and one is missing.
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Why Are Sadhus On A Fast to Save The Ganga?
Discussion on the protest movement by the seers of Matri Sadan to save the Ganga river from environmental destruction.
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Dr Lubna Sarwath’s Multifaceted Approach to Tackle Pollution and Conservation of Urban Water Bodies
Rahul Reddy Bikka | “She believes in empowering locals on the waterbodies with requisite knowledge on how to tackle bureaucracy and ways to litigate the issues.”
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What is the Best Way of Disposing Off a Dead Body?
Abhay Jain and Sandeep Pandey | As Covid consumes human life in a very conspicuous way we are confronted with additional problem of disposing off human corpses.
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Moosi Nadi and Moosi Nadi Banks and All of Us Will Miss Ashfaq Bhai Terribly
When we visit Moosi Nadi and its banks this time we will not find Ashfaq bhai and we cannot call him. This morning he passed away.
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Telangana’s Women-Led Organic Farming Gives Hope for Sustainable Agriculture and Development
SATYAGRAHA | Deccan Development Society (DDS) is a three and half decade old grassroots organisation working in about 75 villages with women’s Sanghams (voluntary village level associations of the poor) in Sangareddy District of Telangana.
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Dams, Rivers and Climate Change | Satyagraha Discussion on Earth Day
SATYAGRAHA | Speakers: Brahmachari Atmabodhanand, Matri Sadan, Haridwar; Nupur Risbood, South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis, Mumbai
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Food Justice From Seed to Plate is Vital for Sustainable Development: Odisha’s Farmers’ Leader
SATYAGRAHA FARMERS’ MOVEMENT SERIES | National Convener of Navnirman Krushak Sangathan, and farmers’ leader from Odisha, Akshay Kumar, is in conversation with Dr Amit Singh, professor Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Akshay bhai had also led over 800 farmers from Odisha to Delhi on 26 January 2021.
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Ganga Andolan | Swami Shivanand Saraswati with Tapas Das
SATYAGRAHA EPISODE 36 | We talk to Swami Shivanand Saraswati, who is sitting on fast after Brahmchari Atmabodhanand was taken away by police from Matri Sadan, Haridwar on the 20th day of this fast.
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Meeting at Matri Sadan, Haridwar, 3 April, 2021, Saturday in Support of Saints Fasting for Ganga
The head of Matri Sadan, Haridwar Swami Shivanand Saraswati is currently on fast against illegal mining and big dams on Ganga in the Himalayas.