ASHA: India Together newsletter, August 2000 (fwd)

[Subramanya Sastry <subbu@narmada.org>]

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August 2000
India Together Newsletter Service 
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Dear Reader:
  
The August 2000 newsletter from is presented here. Links to new 
articles, as well as recent earlier ones, are included here. 
All our articles are available for reading at the web site. As 
always, India Together requests that you pass on this newsletter 
to any others who share your concerns and determination to 
build a better nation together. 

In this edition
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In recent months, Nofolk, Virginia based People for the Ethical 
Treatment of Animals (P.E.T.A.) has encouraged retailers throughout 
the United States and in the European Union to stop importing goods 
made from animals slaughtered in India. A moratorium is now in effect, 
while both sides talk. In the first of what we hope will be a long 
series of detailed reports, India Together takes hold of a holy cow 
by its broken tail.
http://www.indiatogether.org/reports/peta.htm

On August 15th, 2000, people all over the world will participate 
in a campaign to raise funds for basic education in India. 
Asha for Education, a US-based nonprofit organization, designed the 
Work an Hour campaign to afford people everywhere the opportunity 
to work towards a more educated India. On India's Independence Day, 
such well-wishers may donate an hour's pay to Asha, to help educate 
some of the 50 million children who have never seen a school.
http://www.indiatogether.org/stories/asha00.htm

What the [Narmada Bachao] Andolan is basically questioning is the 
process of development planning, right from deciding the development 
goals as well as managing the natural resources, which are generally 
in the hands of the natural resource communities, without their 
consent. Venu Govindu interviews Medha Patkar, the leading activist 
of the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
http://www.indiatogether.org/interviews/iview-mpatkar.htm

The people of the villages and towns between Bangalore and Mysore in
Karnataka are asserting their democratic right to information on the
Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project. There are significant
concerns that the proposed corridor will seriously overburden an already
overused land; but by providing little or no information to those most
affected by the new development, the project attempts to circumvent these
concerns. The Environment Support Group, Bangalore brings you India
Together's latest online petition.
http://www.indiatogether.org/petitions/bmic.htm

Earlier stories
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The Tamilnadu Science Foundation (TNSF) has been working in 
villages and slums all over Tamilnadu. TNSF initiated the Arivoli 
literacy campaigns and made the government take it up seriously. 
Balaji Sampath introduces the many programmes of the Tamilnadu 
Science Foundation. 
http://www.indiatogether.org/wehost/tnsf/tnsf.htm

Rajni Bakshi: "The very minimal duty of our generation is to 
pass on the ideas of Gandhi onto the next generation. Not 
because he 'discovered' or came up with all those ideas, but 
because he, more than anyone else, lived his life as a 
personification of those ideas." Shanmuga Subramanian and 
Subramanya Sastry interview Rajni Bakshi, author of Bapu Kuti. 
http://www.indiatogether.org/interviews/rajni.htm

"The state shall not deny to any person equality before the law 
or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of 
India". Read about equal protection under article 14 from the 
Indian Constitution.
http://www.indiatogether.org/thebook/jun2000-art14.htm

The Supporting Excellence in Education (SEED) Foundation provides 
greater educational and community service opportunities for young 
Americans of Indian descent. Started in the Spring of 1998, the 
Foundation's activities are promoted by a six-member Board Of 
Directors, all of whom are young professionals. 
http://www.indiatogether.org/stories/seed.htm

With two years of bringing the public interest to you behind us, 
India Together now seeks to redefine itself, and find the way forward.
Your input will help us determine the specific public interest 
initiatives that you are willing to support, the ones that are dear to 
you. Tell us how we're doing, and what you'd like to see next. We'll 
do what it takes to put it on.
http://www.indiatogether.org/input/quest2000.htm

Services
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Several of our readers are involved in developmental work with 
organizations that are dear to their hearts, and have asked us 
how we can give their work more publicity. We are working on 
incorporating banners from other non-profit groups into our 
website, entirely free of cost. If you would like to favorite 
group to benefit from this free visibility, you can do so with 
only a little effort.
http://www.indiatogether.org/main/advertise.htm
 
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