In 2007 and 2008, Kandhamal, a district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha, witnessed organised attacks on Christians in some of the worst communalRead More
Year: 2011
At 2.30pm today 10 people arrived unannounced at the offices of Cairn Energy at the Clydesdale Plaza in central Edinburgh. They installed themselves at theRead More
By Samarendra Das and Felix Padel (Article for ‘The Global Economic History of Bauxite’, Canada 2010) Most critiques of the aluminium industry focus on refineriesRead More
Please join us for the 7th annual protest outside the AGM of Vedanta Resources, the now infamous UK registered Indian mining company who have this year been exposed by the Indian government for serial environmental and human rights violations.
The protests at the 2010 Vedanta AGM brought a lot of attention to Vedanta’s Niyamgiri operations. Here are a collection of the articles, videos andRead More
By Felix Padel and Samarendra Das, Economic and Political Weekly, December 2005 “The evidence we present goes against the conventional history of aluminium, which tendsRead More