Since January 18, 2013. more than 5000 urban poor have been violently evicted from their homes in EWS Quarters, Ejipura, in Banaglore. land earmarked for Economically Weak Sections (EWS) is being used for the purpose pf private profit? Why the residents were not relocated before being displaced? And should we stay silent when public land is gifted away to builders?
Fear of appearing Islamophobic is silencing criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood, under whom assaults have increased
globalisation – which has accelerated ecological crises has also given rise to a burgeoning, noisy media which has found it in its interests (up to a point of course) to put out information about such problems. Anxiety sells. So at least a part of the explanation for the greater awareness is this. But there are deeper explanations for the growing public awareness, which have to do with the fact that the ordinary people of this beleaguered country have been raising hell and drawing attention to vanishing frontiers – of forests and meadows, rivers and coastlines. It is difficult to overestimate the democratic contribution they are making to alert downtown India about so many environmental tipping points which the market mechanism so favoured by economists routinely fails to register. One wishes that educated India would take their warnings more seriously – ultimately for its own long-term good.
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