Ear To The Ground

Jalangi lies 50 Km east of Behrampore, the district headquarters of Murshidabad of West Bengal. Predominantly inhabited by Muslims and Dalits, the area was earmarked for East Pakistan, before the British colonial rulers changed the partition plan at the last minute, in 1947. Today, Jalangi is a resettlement town on the banks of River Padma. Changing of the river course and massive erosion of its embankments has resulted in the original Jalangi town now being completely submerged in water. The bulk of the surrounding cultivated lands had turned into sand beds, homes have been devastated and livelihoods and livestock, destroyed. Published in Asian Human Rights Commission website, YDin, a Finnish magazine, Infochange and Yuva Samvad. Log in for the full study h ttps://www.academia.edu/3384770/MURSHIDABADs_STARVING_MASSES

Rajasthan, India's largest state is home to many of the country's very rich as well as a large section of the abject poor. Livelihoods range from industrial activity, trade and commerce to agrarian activity which would include agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry. The exploitation of natural resources like minerals is also a reasonably large-scale activity. While a lot has been researched and written about conventional livelihoods in Rajasthan and their impact on the populace; the activity of mining minerals and ores, and the impact this is having on the fragile ecosystems of the desert state, its social frameworks, and the tenuous economic balance in the state's mining belts is less prolific. Log in for the full study https://www.academia.edu/2559970/Mining_in_Rajasthan-A_Study_of_Patterns_and_Paradigms Mentioned about the study at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Illegal-mining-threatens-Sariska-/articleshow/6732997.cms