Everyone was shocked when recently the Maoists had tied bombs to the dead bodies of jawans in Latehar. The media highlighted this for days together. It deserved condemnation and rightly so. Why did they do it and from whom did they learn that type of cruelty?

The National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers has decided to roll out Direct Benefit Transfers from 1 January 2013 in 43 identified districts. The purpose of Direct Benefits Transfer is said to ensure that benefits go to individual’s bank accounts electronically, cutting down delays and diversions.

Ranchi, October 1: Why are the Adivasis of Nagri refusing to part with their land? The people clearly see how the Jharkhand State Government is playing deadly games with their lives and showing a bias towards the elites at the cost of poor Adivasis.

Two very different world-views: the one of the Adivasi people and the other of the Jharkhand State Government.

“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.