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Paliyans Given Government Assistance in India
Government officials have recently gone out of their way to be friendly and helpful to the residents of a Paliyan village in the forest of South India. A news story in The Hindu on October 5 provided details. The setting for the story is the village of Kalaimaan Nagar, located near the Karuppanadhi Dam in […]
A Peaceful Protest in Ladakh
A massive, but entirely peaceful, demonstration was held in Leh on Sunday, January 12, by Ladakhi students demanding self-government within the provisions of the 6th schedule in the Indian constitution. Schedule 6 allows the government to form autonomous district councils to administer areas that have already been given autonomy within their states. According to the […]
