“We are happy to have a Jesuit among us” expressed one of the Steering Group members of the powerful ‘Right To Food Campaign’ at their meeting on 28^th August 2012 in Delhi. Irudaya Jothi SJ is a member of this Extended Steering Committee of RTFC and participates in their discussion and decision making with regard to Grass-root conscientisation of RTF demands and taking it up at State and National level in advocacy and Lobbying.

Calcutta, August 17: Pope Benedict XVI in his Encyclical Caritas in Veritate wrote, “Love – Caritas – is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace (No.1)”. In order to ensure justice and peace for human beings, created in the image and likeness of God, we need to work for human promotion based on an authentic spirituality and integrity of creation.

According to Walter Fernandes, the number of the displaced is between two and five crore.

Mumbai, 16 July: Jairam Ramesh, Union minister for rural development, is known for his contrarian views. Currently, the Maoist insurgency occupies his attention; Ramesh is visiting 31 Maoist-affected districts and exploring the issue up close. Speaking with Monobina Gupta, Ramesh discussed Maoist politics, tribal displacement - and the land acquisition Bill:

Tribes say plans by UK-listed mining firm Vedanta to mine on holy land will destroy their way of life

The ash spills out across the plain beneath the brooding bulk of Niyamgiri mountain, swamping the trees that once grew here, forming dirty grey-brown drifts around the stems of the now-dead scrub.

Every day there is more ash, pouring out of the alumina refinery that squats among the steep-sided, jungle-clad hills of western Orissa, India. The dust hangs in the air and clings to the landscape, settling on the huts of the aboriginal Kondh tribes who call this place home, choking those who breathe it in.