#ClimateDiary Watching this made me think yet again about #ClimateJustice or rather, the profound iINJUSTICE of climate change: how the poorest - Rikshah drivers, street hawkers, labourers - suffer the most, without any accees to #AirCon, outside all day, yet contribute nothing to #ClimateChange. The impacts are so hnequal, so unfair, in micro as well as macro ways, it makes you want to screem. #Heatwave#Asia#India#Odisha
A (Re)Marriage of Convenience Is in the Making in Odisha
While state BJP leaders are worried that an alliance with the BJD may upset party cadres, the central leadership has decided that joining hands is the best way forward.
How Odisha Is Tackling Protests Against Mining: An Abduction, Arrests, Terror Cases Against Adivasi Protestors
In August, police filed criminal cases against Adivasi-Dalit anti-mining protestors, arrested 25 in southeastern Odisha, which holds more than half of India’s bauxite reserves, and allegedly abducted a global environmental prize winner. Acting on orders of the Biju Janata Dal government of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, ahead of state elections, the police filed charges that range from rioting to terrorism—for the first time in 20 years of these protests—under 16 sections of the law.
Odisha: Family Performs Funeral Rites of Daughter Who Opted Inter-Caste Marriage
Family members of a girl from Chandiput village under Mohana block in Gajapati district performed funeral rites of their living daughter on Tuesday as she had married a youth of another caste from the same village. Irked by it, her family members declared her dead for them. On the 11th day of the marriage, they performed the funeral rituals of the girl inviting friends and relatives.
Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable
Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.
Supreme Court asks Centre, six States to respond to plea on lynchings
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal began by requesting the court not to tell him to go to the High Courts. He said the incidents span across multiple States and the victims should not be made to go to all these High Courts.
Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families
A month after a three-train wreck in Balasore, Odisha, killed over 290 people on 2 June, 52 bodies are yet to be identified. As mostly low-income families wait in Bhubaneswar for the result of DNA testing, they sift between two sets of images—those of the mangled faces and bodies they have seen and the smiling ones saved on their phones, some sent minutes before the accident. While their poverty demands they return to work, desperate calls from home ask whether they will soon have the solace of the last rites.
Muslim Men Attacked, Stripped, and Beards Shaved in Bhubaneswar, Mere 3 km from the Chief Minister’s Residence
On June 17, in close proximity to the Chief Minister’s residence in Bhubaneswar, a violent Hindu mob targeted two Muslim youths, subjecting them to a brutal assault and callously restraining them with ropes.
The perpetrators subjected the victims to a harrowing physical ordeal, all the while chanting the slogan “Jai Shree Ram.”
In a cynical attempt to avoid culpability for one of India’s worst-ever rail disasters at Balasore, the Modi government is peddling conspiracy theories.
Cover Your Tracks: The Modi Government’s Attitude After the Balasore Tragedy (m.thewire.in) Dutch
In a cynical attempt to avoid culpability for one of India’s worst-ever rail disasters at Balasore, the Modi government is peddling conspiracy theories.