Box MS-032 Box 1

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Contains clippings and broadsheets of newspapers. Consists of a series of interviews with Benazir Bhutto by Rai and Rama Sharma in the Youth Times; as well as features on lifestyle and human interest in the Times Weekly such as on a sari co-operative in the Middle East; a wax museum in Delhi; pythons as pets; specialised child-care and a girl suffering gigantism.

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Consists of broadsheets and clippings of Rai's articles in the Times of India regarding differently-abled persons, prison reform, adult literacy and a retrospective on Rai's 24 years at the Times.

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Consists of an issue of the broadsheet of the Times of India with an article by Rai on an acid-attack survivor aiming to be a police officer; and a photocopy of a clipping pertaining to a literacy drive.

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Consists of broadsheets, articles and photocopies of articles in the Indian Express etc. on ecology and human development themes such as national parks, Japanese assistance for greening of the Aravallis, lantana basket-weaving, population, infanticide and literacy.

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Consists of broadsheets and clippings of articles in the Indian Express etc. on issues related to development such as the lack of access to forest produce for Odiya tribals; environmental issues such as sale of hippos and the categories for classification of waste; political issues such as Congress propaganda on Doordarshan network and a new DD channel.

Scope and Contents Consists of broadsheets and clippings of Rai's articles in the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express on a range of environmental, human interest and development stories such as the lack of support for a war widow; profile of Bhagwati Devi, a parliamentarian; habitat protection in Kutch and Majuli island in Assam; family planning; amendments to the Prasar Bharati act; the exploitation of children as child soldiers; the detachment of the tiger cell from WWF; and assessments of the National...

Scope and Contents Consists of broadsheets and clippings. These pertain to articles by Rai in the Hindustan Times, on environmental issues such as a plan for transborder poaching between India and Nepal; poisoning of tigers and fund allocation for tiger conservation, soil restoration by earthworms, tree-felling ban in the North-East and profile of a community wildlife sanctuary in the north-east, the draft biodiversity bill and designation of biodiversity hotspots; developmental stories such as the Sathin...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai on issues of development and public welfare, such as starvation in drought-stricken Orissa; loss of land in Majuli and the workings of the NGO AVARD; the launch of an AIDS counselling hotline; health-care and child-care for the poor and working mothers in the unorganised sector, in tribal areas and deprecation of profit-sharing in hospitals; vehicular pollution and indoor pollution due to low-grade fuels; the mid-day meal scheme; UNDP sectoral...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai on environmental issues. Part I includes broadsheets and articles about government oversight and policies about wildlife and the environment. This includes a discussion of measures for Sal borer epidemic; mining licences and permissions for tree-cutting and sawing in the Northeast; political pressures on environmental clearances for the Sanghi Ind project, the Mumbai Pune highway, Khao Creek jetty project and power projects as well as a notification to...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai on environmental issues. Part 2 includes broadsheets and articles on national parks, habitat loss and destruction, poaching and conservation. This includes poaching prevention and illegal trade affecting tigers, wild birds, rhinos, etc.; conservation and countering habitat loss such as retreating glaciers, shrinking forest cover in Arunachal Pradesh, ecological disturbance in the Andamans and destruction of Olive Ridleys by trawlers near Bhitarkanika;...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai about ministry actions, the investigation of scams such as the LoC scam in Assam, the fodder scam, and Family Welfare department procurement by the CAG; fund diversion by CAPART officials and others to phantom NGOs; boycott of elections by dam oustees; the growing influence of BJP among tribal populations following greater adoption of Hindu beliefs; stories on Laloo Prasad Yadav; profile of an ex-royal surviving on state dole; appointments to state...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai about leadership changes in the Doordarshan command; protests by newsreaders; Doordarshan budgetary discussion; commentary on DD programming and expansion of channels; expansion of other news networks and departure of bureaucrats from DD to join private enterprises; government misuse of airwaves; election-period publicity campaigns for the government by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; discussions on the Broadcasting Bill; comments by...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings of articles by Rai on issues of women's rights including administrative changes and activities of the National Commission of Women, such as seeking housing for sex workers, addressing complaints such as improper remarks against Mayawati by Mulayam; procedure and prosecution of rape cases, as well as failure of prosecution; the provision of family courts in residential areas; protests against beauty contest and for a gender-sensitive broadcasting authority; report on...

Scope and Contents Consists of newspaper clippings and broadsheets with articles by Rai in the Free Press Journal, Indian Express, the Sentinel etc Topics include women's rights stories such as the political representation and the proportion of female candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections, the new chairwoman of the National Commission for Women; environmental stories such the sal borer epidemic, issues of tiger conservation such as prey depletion, the devastation caused by the flooding of Kaziranga,...

Scope and Contents Broadsheets and clippings of articles from the Telergraph supplement, the Hindu Hindu Business Line, Times of India, the Hindustan Times on the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, the Human Development Report on Madhya Pradesh, tigers and human toleration, hunting, forest fires, tiger tracking, the WWF garden and conservation, wildlife transborder meeting between India and Nepal and transborder animal mirgations, responsible television programming, profiles of Limca record holders such as Dasarath...

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Consists of broadsheets and clippings of Rai's articles in the Hindustan Times, and the Hindu, including an editorial piece on rape cases in India, the displacement of Sardar Sarovar, dam-affected persons, and the Green Talk column pieces pertaining to the new director of Project Tiger and rainwater harvesting initiatives.

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Consists of broadsheets and clippings of Rai's articles in the Tribune on developmental issues such as economic revival in the Kashmir valley and the training of young women to be preschooler teachers; profile of the prolific blood donor Suresh Kamdar; the bonds between patients in a hospital setting; and issues affecting the indigenous people of the Andamans and Nicobar islands due to construction and interaction with outsiders.

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Broadsheets and clippings of Rai's articles in the Tribune pertaining to conciliation efforts in Kashmir; discrimination against women journalists in regional papers and unfair contracts; family planning; and child monitoring in Orissa.

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Consists of broadsheets and newspaper clippings. These include Rai's opinion pieces in the Tribune, the Roots plus supplement and Outlook on tiger protection; the dire state of women's rights in India land therefore little to celebrate come to Women's Day; an argument against the implementation of the two-child policy in India and broadsheets and articles pertaining to the urgency of the aids crisis, as well as a profile of a care home for HIV/AIDS infected called Akankshya.

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Consists of broadsheets, a magazine, and clippings with articles by Rai such as Outlook, the Tribune and Tribune Spectrum and Times of India, on topics such as female power engineers in Andhra Pradesh; the pros of rules on the mandatory registration of marriages; the life of widows in Vrindavan; football as a therapeutic exercise; and the dearth of statistics on the AIDS epidemic in India.

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Broadsheets and clippings of articles from the Tribune, pertaining to sex education; profiling a foundation's work against child marriage and for girls' schooling, child marriage and the struggles of young motherhood; and on widows seeking refuge in Vrindavan.

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Broadsheets and clippings of articles from the Tribune and Tribune Sunday supplement on traditional midwifery (Dais) and their place in the national rural health scheme, displacement of tribal children, child labour, and the Abu Vishwa Complex in Ooty.