Tag: Land mafia
IMPACT: Villagers take back community land from corrupt headman
A quiet village on the border of India and Nepal, Semri-Dumri is a sleepy hamlet where nothing seems to happen. A paved road blends solemnly into sand a few miles behind the vaguely identifiable border. Motorcycles that pass through can be heard from a distance, along with the stones rattled...
900 families Homeless After Mumbai Demolition Drive
” I have been sleeping on this,” Radhika Gupta tells the camera, pointing at the debris of her house in Nala Sopara, Mumbai. At 65, she, along with 300 other families, has been rendered homeless as the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) razed down their homes, because their buildings were illegal structures on government...
Clay Figurines: The Threatened Craft
Heritage craft of Lucknow, India needs patronage, preservation.