| Panos South Asia supports a media study tour of the Kosi flood plains in North Bihar |
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| Panos South Asia and Barh Mukti Abhiyan conducted a media tour of Bihar's Kosi River basin to study and write about the politics of flood control.The objective was to create awareness about the science and politics of flood management as well as lobbying with governmnets to rethink their strategy on floods. Fourteen mediapersons took part in the tour and several articles on the issue continue to appear in mainstream media...More |
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| Panos South Asia - Kalpavriksh Media Dialogue on ‘Himalayan Hydro: Challenges to Conventional Dam Building Wisdom’ |
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Panos South Asia in association with Kalpavriksh is holding a series of Media Dialogues on environmental issues of immediate concern. The first dialogue, held in New Delhi centred on coastal issues. The session titled “Coasts after Tsunami: manage or Regulate?” deliberated upon the long-term mismanagement of the coast and the resultant environmental and social implications.
The second dialogue in the series “ Digging up trouble: Globalisation &the politics of mining” discussed how the booming extractive mining industry is affecting the tribals and the diverse flora and fauna of the mineral-rich areas. ...More |
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| Panos South Asia - Kalpavriksh Media dialogue on “SEZs: Oasis or Mirage?” |
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The fourth in the Panos South Asia- Kalpavriksh series of media dialogues, “SEZs: Oasis or Mirage?” was held on 26th February 2008 in New Delhi. This dialogue assumes significance with environmental groups raising concerns about the proliferation of SEZs in sensitive regions like coastal areas and highly polluted zones. Procedures for environmental decision-making have been diluted for SEZs with detailed environmental assessments to minimize potential adverse impact being given a go-by. The media dialogue is an effort to facilitate participants to take a closer nuanced look at the debate. Panos South asia brouht together representatives of the bureaucracy, political parties, peoples’ movements and academics to this discussion.
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| Panos South Asia’s inquiry into the politics of Land Reforms |
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| Beginning 2008, we embarked on a project to take a hard and rigorous look at the political economy of land in South Asia, especially in the wake of recent attempts by the neo-liberal school to shift the focus from land rights to land markets. Briefly, the inquiry was two-pronged. To start with, we wanted to assess the impact of state-led land reforms, or the lack of it, on the social and economic lives of the disadvantaged. In the second part, we wanted to essay a critique of the ongoing neo-liberal economic reforms’ attempt to replace the state with market as the agent of land reforms. Broadly, our endeavor is to describe and understand the origins of various ideas, actors, and forces that are persuading nation states to establish a free land-market, as well as gauge its impact on social and economic inequalities. We present the reports from Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Download PDF | Download PDF ...More |
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| Panos South Asia’s documentary film ‘Evicted’ on displacement and resettlement |
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| Panos Institute, Sri Lanka has researched and produced a 25-minute documentary titled ‘Evicted’. The film chronicles the voices of three communities of internally displaced people with the aim of informing a wider debate about displacement. It also hopes to sensitize the media, academia and policymakers who hold the key to the future of these groups ...More |
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| Panos fellow Surya Shankar Dash's short film on the politics of land acquisition creates a stir |
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| Vedanta, a UK-based company allegedly involved in the destruction of Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, was chosen in June , 2009 as the recipient of the London-based World Environment Foundation’s award for best practices in environment management. The jury comprised two former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Justice Ahmedi and Justice Bhagawati. To protest and expose the true face of Vedanta Aluminium Limited, a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources Plc, a 30-minute film, Sham Public Hearing: The Real Face of Vedanta, made by independent filmmaker Surya Shankar Dash was released in New Delhi on June 11. Surya Shankar Dash is one of young film-makers trained by Amar Kanwar under a Panos South Asia project to make short films on the politics of land acquisition. Protests by concerned citizens and organisations forced the organisers to "review" their decision ...More |
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| Panos South Asia holds a symposium on Science, Environment and Media in association with IIT-Delhi and Centre for Studies in Science Policy |
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| Panos South Asia, IIT Delhi, and Centre for Studies in Science Policy together organised a two-day symposium on Science, Environment and Media: Discussing Experiences in South Asia at IIT Delhi on November 15-16, 2009.This symposium brought together academics, journalists, lawyers, activists and policymakers to explore the many-layered tensions between research and reportage ...More |
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| The Caravan- Panos Special Assignment Fellowships announced |
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The Caravan-Panos Special Assignment Fellowship programme is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern in South Asia. The selected fellows are Rohini Mohan,Divya Gupta and Sonya Fatah ...More |
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| PSA in association with Kalpavriksh & GRAIN holds Assessment of access and Benefit sharing |
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| Panos South Asia in association with Kalpavriksh and GRAIN organised a post CBD COP-10 assessement of access and 'benefit sharing ' on Tuesday, November 9th, 2010. The event was held at the Nehru memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi
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| Panos South Asia-The Caravan Special Assignment Fellowships |
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Panos South Asia-The Caravan Special Assignment Fellowships
Panos South Asia joined hands with The Caravan to strengthen enterprise reporting,through a special assignment fellowship programme.The project is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of important topics in South Asia; discovering and significantly advancing stories that have been covered, but not in magazine depth.A look at the outputs....More |
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| Panos-CMS Young Environment Journalists Awards presented |
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| Panos South Asia in association with CMS has announced the Panos- CMS Young Environment journalists Awards for the year 2011.Soma Basu of The Statesman, Kolkata is the winner in the print category and Manu C Kumar of Manorama News, Mumbai is the winner in the Electronic Media category. The awards which includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each were presented to the winners at the inaugural ceremony of the CMS-Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife film festival,on December 6th at New Delhi.The awards are presented for excellence in environmental journalism to individuals who have done "exemplary investigative and inspired reporting on environment issues in the country". ...More |
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| SACCA Media Fellows 2012 announced. |
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The call for applications for the SACCA fellowships evoked very good response from journalists across six countries.The fellowships are being offered through a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) funded project ‘Enhancing climate change awareness and understanding amongst journalists in South Asia’, managed by Panos South Asia
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| Panos South Asia at the 11th CoP on Biodiversity |
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Panos South Asia at the 11th CoP on
Biodiversity.
Panos South Asia in association with the Forum of
Environmental Journalists in India and the National Biodiversity Authority organised
an interactive event at the Conference of Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity on 9th October, 2012 in Hyderabad. The theme was “Valuing
Biodiversity: an interactive dialogue with the media.Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati,
Chairman, NBA, Dr. William Dar, Director General ICRISAT and S. Faizi, Board
Member, CBD Alliance spoke on various aspects of biodiversity and the need
for media to understand and report on these issues.
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| Panos South Asia announces South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellows, 2013 |
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Panos South Asia announces South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellows, 2013
This year’s twenty four awardees have been selected by a panel of experts after careful consideration of nearly seventy applications from all forms of media from six countries in South Asia. Weightage for selection was given to form of media, gender and language to ensure a judicious mix. PSA’s SACCA fellowships are being offered as part of a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) project for enhancing climate change awareness and understanding among journalists in South Asia. The project, which is currently in its second phase, has already produced several quality outputs across the region on Climate change–related issues. ...More |
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| Leveling the Playing Field: A survey of Pakistan's Land Reforms |
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| With land having assumed a pivotal role in the massive social engineering of our societies according to the cold logic of the free market, Panos South Asia felt the need to create fresh critical scholarship that not only interrogates the fundamental idea of land as commodity but also re-examines the usefulness of the apparently discredited notion of land rights in the creation of more just societies. The book ‘Leveling the Playing Field: A survey of Pakistan’s Land Reforms’ kicks off this project by taking a critical look, both academic as well as journalistic, at the politics of land reforms in Pakistan Download PDF ...More |
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| Panos South Asia at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen |
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Panos South Asia is part of a collaboration called the climate change media partnership (CCMP) that has brought 40 journalists from around the developing world to cover the UN climate summit currently under way in Copenhagen. Other members of this international effort include other Panos offices from UK, Africa and the Caribbean, Internews, International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) in London and environment journalist networks from South East Asia. The writings of these journalists can be read on www.climatechangemediapartnership.org ...More |
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| On the brink: desperate energy pursuits in South Asia |
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| The insatiable appetite for energy that economic globalisation has spawned is not only creating political fault lines between nations, but also threatening to push climate change over the tipping point. South Asia finds itself bang in the middle of this momentous transformation. On the Brink: Desperate Energy Pursuits in South Asia, published by Panos South Asia, throws light on perhaps the most vexing issue of our times. ...More |
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| Panos Pakistan holds Peoples' Assembly on Manchar Lake issue |
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| Panos South Asia in association with Shirkat Gah and the Save Manchar Coalition held a Peoples' Assembly at the Manchar Lake in Dadu District in Sindh Province. This initiative by Panos Pakistan brought together more than a thousand people whose lives are linked directly or indirectly to the Manchar lake. ...More |
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| ‘Caterpillar and the Mahua flower’ launched |
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Panos South Asia seeks to unravel the labyrinth of mining through its publication ‘Caterpillar and the Mahua flower:Tremors in India’s mining fields’. As multinational conglomerates walk away with state blessings to prospect for resources under the earth, the original custodians of the land, the Adivasis find themselves totally bereft.
This compilation of thirteen essays seeks to correct this anomaly to examine the manner in which mining has ripped apart the ecological, cultural and social fabric that holds Adivasi communities together
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| Three lapses in Ganges Water Treaty cited |
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| Dhaka: Two leading water experts of India and Nepal are of the view that given the atmosphere of understanding, India and Bangladesh can overcome the problems experienced this year in the Implementation of the Ganges Water Treaty. ...More |
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