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...there is hope. Many farmers are returning to traditional methods promoted by Navdanya (Nine Seeds), an organization based in New Delhi that Shiva helped found 11 years ago. Navdanya encourages farmers to produce hardy native varieties of crops that can be grown organically with natural fertilizer and no artificial chemicals. The group works in an area for three years, helping local farmers form their own self-supporting organization and seed bank. Navdanya has spread to some 80 districts in 12 states and has collected more than 2,000 seed varieties. It has set up a marketing network through which farmers...
Ravi became known to the West during the '60s, when he played at Woodstock and the Monterey festival and collaborated with the Beatles. His most recent album won a world music Grammy earlier this year. Anoushka, who lives with her parents in New Delhi - home to the new Ravi Shankar Center - and San Diego, also gets her musical inspiration from both East and West. Her repertoire is rooted in India's Hindu tradition, but colored by an upbringing in London, New Delhi and California spent listening to artists such as Sting and Tori Amos. "People tend to find...
TIME: Where's home? SHANKAR: I feel like I've always had three homes - London, California and New Delhi. Moving to America at 11 meant that a lot of my personality was molded there - I'm not very traditional, I'm outspoken - but it was a difficult adjustment...
...ARRESTED. ANIRUDDHA BAHAL, Indian journalist with the prominent Tehelka website, which last year exposed a government bribery scandal; by the Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of assaulting a federal officer; in New Delhi. Released on bail after several hours, Bahal's arrest comes amid allegations of a media crackdown by the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in which several journalists have been detained or harassed...
...Ajanwa's Hindus and Muslims had lived in peace for years: only in the past decade, with the rise of the BJP in both New Delhi and Gujarat, has the divide grown. Muslim survivors say BJP members led the attacks in March. Some were arrested, but the main organizers charged with the killings are still free. "If only those four or five people are caught, there would be no trouble in the village and we could go back," says Mushtaq, who chooses to live in the nearby town of Lunawada and commute to his farm 25 kilometers away. Local police...