In Media:
  • Democracy Over Security: India's Role in Afghanistan ... (Read More)
  • "Kashmir, It’s Essential To Listen Without An Agenda" ... (Read More)
  • "Gandhi's Final Fast by Dilip Simeon" ... (Read More)
  • My Bloody Valentine ... (Read More)
  • Inland Exodus: Refugees at Home ... (Read More)
  • Simon Harding | Indian Express | 23 March 2010   Please find below the link of a... (Read More)
  • The Other Side of Maoism ... (Read More)
  • Dilip Simeon on Israel - Palestine ... (Read More)
  • Book Review by Dilip Simeon ... (Read More)
  • Dilip Simeon's Article in Himal Southasia ... (Read More)
  • Jamal Kidwai on "Funding Compliances" ... (Read More)
  • AMAN Colleague's Article on Nandigram ... (Read More)
  • AMAN Colleague's Article on Salwa Judum ... (Read More)
  • AMAN Colleague's Article in TOI ... (Read More)
  • AMAN Colleague's Article in Infochange ... (Read More)
     
Living on the Periphery PDF Print E-mail
jai-hindSix thousand migrants who have been living in Delhi’s Jai Hind Camp for the last 15 years are struggling to retain their dwellings, kiosks and livelihoods as waste-pickers as land sharks try to oust them to cash in on the spiralling value of land.
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The Currency of Sentiment PDF Print E-mail

An Essay on Informal Accumulation in Colonial India by Dilip Simeon

The discourse of corruption normalises the inequality of wage labour. By encouraging us to focus on bribes, commissions and kick-backs - informal deductions in formal monetary transactions - it deflects attention from....

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Governance and Development Issues in Kashmir PDF Print E-mail
This paper by AMAN colleaugues focuses on schemes related to “development” and “governance”. The two concepts are placed within quotes because we recognise that they are closely linked to providing a sense of justice in Kashmir. In the recent past, there has been a healthy critique of  the government’s security-led approach in conflict zones affected by insurgency like Jammu and Kashmir. Read the Full Paper
 
Challenges to The World Bank Project PDF Print E-mail

The article written by AMAN colleague Jamal Kidwai delves into the plethora of complexities and issues faced by the World Bank's Kosi Flood Recovery Project in Bihar. To read the article please Click Here

 
Essay on Informality PDF Print E-mail
The recent emergence of the concept of ‘social capital’ has set a trend in development and mainstream  economics. It has been criticised for being a form of “analysis suspended somewhere between grand systemic theory and mere description .... explains Dilip Simeon in his essay on Informailty. Read the full Article
 

AMAN Cards

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Card No. 601

Drawn By Shikh Munaf Yasinbhai.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 602

Drawn By Shikh Munaf Yasinbhai.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 603

Drawn By Malik Taufiqkhan Abidkhan.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 604

Drawn By Shaikh Arbaz sabbirbhai.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 605

Drawn By Ansari Mo. Sharukh Abdulkayyam.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 606

Drawn By Pathan Rubinabanu Habibbhai.

These cards are drawn by children from Vatva, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, an area which witnessed large-scale violence in 2002. Your contributions will go towards supporting children's education and other AMAN programmes.

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Card No. 501

Drawn By Rajneesh Kumar and Munna Kumar.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar.

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Card No. 502

Drawn By Gayatri Kumari and Munna Kumar.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar.

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Card No. 503

Drawn By Ravikant Kumar, Puja Kumari and Sonay Lal Kumar.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar.

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Card No. 504

Drawn By Girish Kumar and Puja Kumari.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar. 

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Card No. 505

Drawn By Munna Kumar and Sonay Lal Kumar.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar.

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Card No. 506

Drawn By Puja Kumari and Brajesh Kumar.

These cards are drawn by children from Laxpanpur Bathe and Shanker Bigha, two villages in Bihar where caste massacres occured. Your contributions will go towards suporting children's education and in helping with other AMAN programmes in Bihar.

NREGA Campaign

Padyatra

Two NREGA awareness-raising 'padyatras' were organized in the Jehanabad and Arwal districts of Bihar, in January and February 2009. Local NREGA implementation committees have been formed in the villages visited. Read More

Gender Violence and Law

Floods in Bihar
 
AMAN's legal aid programme in Jehanabad, Bihar the Kanooni Sahayata Kendra (KSK) organised a one-day workshop on Gender Violence and Law on 6th December 2008. Read More

Flood Relief in Bihar

Floods in Bihar
 
A new ten-month programme, supported by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has begun in March 2009 on sustainable livelihood generation in Kosi- flood affected districts of Saharsa and Supual, Bihar.

Testimonies

Informal Labour
Rani is a domestic worker... Read
 
Internal Displacement
We left in January 1990, for fear of... Read  

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