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    Life on the fringes
    Maharashtra's poor public healthcare and highly skewed distribution of wealth lies at the root of the current crisis highlighted by malnutrition deaths among Adivasis, writes Kalpana Sharma.

    Hardly hospitals
    Government hospitals in rural areas struggle to serve the target population. Meena Menon details the problems in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district.

    The wages of neglect
    Eleven children died in just over a month for lack of proper health care in an Adivasi hamlet in Orissa. Prafulla Das reports.

    Encroachers in their own land
    THE DEATH of the malnourished children in Dongiriguda has brought into focus the plight of the thousands of poverty-stricken Adivasis living in disparate settlements in Orissa. Without any entitlement except voting rights, they live life ...

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    Degeneration of politics
    By Inder Malhotra

    Seven years ago when this country celebrated the golden jubilee of its Independence the world applauded it for being the only one in the Third World to have made a success of parliamentary democracy. In an article in The New York Times, ...



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