List of Recipient Organizations

Abhivyakti Media for Development / Nashik Maharashtra produces video films and campaign material in support of a wide range of peoplesmovements and social groups

Adharshila (through Veer Khajia Nayak Manav Vikas Pratishthan) / Sendhwa Madhya Pradesh is an alternative school foradivasi children, with a focus on life skills and knowledge of the environment, on excellence in teaching aswell as extra curricular activities.

Adivasi Mukti Sangathan / Sendhwa Madhya Pradesh is an organization that works in Sendhwa, Badwani and Khandwa on the rights ofadivasis to their forests, lands and river.

Akhra (through Biju Toppo) / Ranchi Jharkand has been instrumental in introducing film as a tactical device forpolitical resistance in Jharkand – in particular the use of video as an important tool in the fight forsocial change

Aman Ekta Manch / New Delhi is a citizen’s initiative for peace and communal harmony that came out of the carnage in Gujaratin 2002. The group works towards the relief and rehabilitation of victims of communal strife.

Beej Bachao Andolan / Tehri Uttaranchal is a group of farmer-activists, who emerged out of the Chipko Struggle to save Himalayanforests from the axe of timber contractors. They have been fighting to preserve the biodiversity of localagriculture against the onslaught of global forces pushing hybrid crops and monoculture.

Bharat Dogra / New Delhi is an independent journalist who produces the feature "News from the Fields and Slums" andbrings out stories of peoples movements and local struggles, and a number of other contentious issues in

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Sangathan (through Swabhiman Mahila Prashiksha Sansthan)/Bhopal Madhya Pradesh
is a women’s group that emerged in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1992 to fight to securerelief, compensation, medical treatment and livelihoods for the victims.

Chalakudy Puzha Samrakshana Samithi (through A Latha) / Thrissur Kerala  has worked towards saving the Chalakudy river from a large dam, acement plant and other risks to the river and people in the valley.

Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha / Chattisgarh has organized workers in the struggle for better wages, and for better working and livingconditions in coalmines and ancillary industries of Chattisgarh for over three decades. It also runs a numberof efficient schools, hospitals, a newspaper and a community based health program.

Citizens for Justice & Peace / Mumbai Maharashtra is an association of concerned citizens of Mumbai and Ahmedabad, formed in March 2002, tofight for legal justice for those affected by the state-sponsored communal carnage in Gujarat.

C K Janu (through Gothramahasabha) / Mananthavadi Kerala works with the Adivasis of Kerala, and has organized amovement for the return of their traditional lands, so that each household may at least have enough to build ahouse.

Communalism Combat (through Sabrang Communications) / Mumbai Maharashtra is a 10-year-old organisation formed to promote thevalues of religious freedom and pluralism, and to combat hate politics. Its publications have set thestandards for well researched documentation (and passionate analysis) of many unaccounted communal carnages.

Delhi Forum (through Programme for Social Action) / New Delhi is a support group that provides an invaluable service,particularly in documentation and research, to a range of mass movements from all over India.

Eklavya / Bhopal Madhya Pradesh is a group working on educational pedagogy, and their work is known all over India forits path breaking and innovative methodologies of education and work with children. They bring out magazinesfor teachers, for children, and a science feature service.

Girishbhai Patel / Ahmedabad Gujarat is a civil rights lawyer with an outstanding commitment to human rights and socialjustice, and has been instrumental in bringing the discourse of Right to Life into tribal and people’sstruggles.

Hans patrika (through Akshar Prakashan) / New Delhi is one of India’s foremost Hindi literary magazines, recognized asmuch for its contribution to literature, as it is for the politics of its editor, novelist Rajendra Yadav, andits many essayists and columnists.

Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (through Madhuri Krishnaswami) / Badwani Madhya Pradesh works in the denuded and drought prone region ofBadwani on the right to work and livelihoods, and has done excellent work on water conservation in the area.

Jan Hith Trust / New Delhi was created in 2000, to give fellowships and support to individual activists and small non-fundedgroups working for democratic and human rights and social change.

Jan Sangharsh Morcha / Bhopal Madhya Pradesh is a forum of progressive and mass based organizations of Madhya Pradesh, that havecome together to fight privatization and globalisation and towards social justice.

Kanavu (through K J Baby) / Wynad Kerala is an alternative school for Adivasi children run by the writer-activist K.J.Baby in a remote corner of Kerala. The emphasis is on "seeing, feeling and experiencing", and educatingchildren about their own history and land, and the wisdom of their forbears.

Kisan Adivasi Sangathan / Kesla Madhya Pradesh has worked in the hills of Kesla for the last two decades against displacement ofadivasis. After a long struggle for fishing rights in the reservoir that submerged their lands, they createdone of the most successful examples of fisher people’s cooperatives in India.

Koel Karo Jan Sanghathan / Ranchi Jharkand is an organisation of the people of the valleys of Koel and Karo. It has fought against theneocolonial control of resources in Jharkand, and has succeeded in stopping a destructive dam and protectingthe Koel and Karo rivers.

Mahila Salah Evam Suraksha Kendra / Jaipur Rajasthan is a group that has attached itself to the Mahila Police Station in Jaipur, where it helpswomen in distress to access state and social support

Manthan Adhyayan Kendra / Badwani Madhya Pradesh is a research center that monitors and analyses water and energy related issues, witha focus on the effects of liberalization, globalisation and privatization of the economy.

Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan / Devdungri Rajasthan is an organization of peasants and workers in central Rajasthan. Since1990 it hascampaigned for minimum wages, land and other basic rights. More recently it has fought for peoples right toinformation as a means of demanding transparency and accountability.

National Alliance of People’s Movements / Mumbai Maharashtra is an alliance of several people’s movements across the country, and an attempt toshare resources and forge a common struggle on issues that face them.

National Campaign for People’s Right to Information / New Delhi was created in 1996 for the purpose of drafting legislation to enable ordinary citizens to accessinformation and to support people’s rights to demand and use information for empowerment.

National Fishworkers Forum / Calcutta West Bengal is a struggle of traditional fisher folk of the country to safeguard their livelihoodagainst the onslaught of local and global forces. In Jambudwip alone more than 10,000 people stand to bedisplaced from their habitat by the local Forest Department.

Navajeevan / Kottayam Kerala For more than 20 years P U Thomas has run a shelter for the destitute and mentallychallenged, where he organizes food, shelter and support for patients too poor to afford it at hospitals.

Nishant Natya Manch / New Delhi is a radical street theatre group that has worked in the industrial and working class areas ofDelhi for more than a decade. Their repertoire of songs, political satire and agit-prop have raised the spiritof countless rallies and demonstrations in India.

Orissa Rajya Krushak Sangathan / Bargad Orissa has been working since 1986 in the backward western Orissa region. It has waged a consistentstruggle for the demands of small and marginal peasants, and has supported the struggle of landless labour,and of dalits and adivasis against displacement.

Pahal / Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh Edited by the well-known progressive writer Gyanranjan, Pahal has been anoutstanding small magazine on cultural and political issues.

Pani Vikas Samiti Roopkheda (through Manthan) / Badwani Madhya Pradesh is working on people's planning for decentralized water alternatives in western MadhyaPradesh

People’s Union for Civil Liberties Rajasthan / Jaipur Rajasthan focuses on issues of human rights and civil liberties in the State of Rajasthan, bringingtogether individuals and groups, and providing support to victims of atrocities.

Prakritik Suraksha Sampada Parishad / Rayagada Orissa is a people’s struggle against large corporations doing unrestrained bauxite mining in thevalleys in the Koraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi areas.

Right to Food campaign / Delhi is an informal network of organisations and individuals committed campaigning for the people’s rightto food in India. It emphasizes that this right requires not only equitable and sustainable food systems, butalso entitlements relating to livelihood security - the right to work, land reform and social security.

Sahaja (through Elizabeth Philip) / Kottayam Kerala is a womens center that has emerged as one of the articulatefaces of feminism in Kerala. Their library and resource centre, "Women’s Estate" provides researchand documentation support, and a place for reading and reflection.

Samata kendra / Jateswar North Bengal works primarily among dalit and adivasi people and fosters experiments with alternativeeducation, health, agriculture and rural industry.

Samayik varta / New Delhi is a Hindi monthly political magazine. Since 1977 it has been one of the voices questioning theestablished models of development, and in the process articulating the need for new forms of radical politics.

Samyantar (to be received by Pankaj Bisht) / New Delhi is edited by Pankaj Bisht, who doggedly insists on the place fora "little magazine" that is entirely concerned with radical social and political engagements.

Sandharb / Indore Madhya Pradesh creates and disseminates media resources, and works with urban and rural groupsthrough slide shows and booklets, and brings out a Hindi magazine on rivers and dams. Recently their mainfocus has been on the war in Afghanistan and the communal carnage in Gujarat.

Sarai programme / CSDS / Delhi at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, supports activities and fellowships forindependent media practitioners, and explores innovative ways to bring new media technologies to"non-elite" neighborhoods.

Sarvodaya Press Service / Indore Madhya Pradesh is a feature service on environmental issues, and people's struggles for social andeconomic justice. With modest resources, over 40 years they have built an alternative media channel for around250 small and big newspapers in the country.

School for Democracy / Devdungri Rajasthan is planned as a space in Devdungri, managed, supported and run by a coalition ofindividuals around the country, committed to the idea of making democracy more meaningful to ordinary people.Through the regular interaction between rural and urban, academic and practitioner, farmer and labourer, theschool will provide the space for sharing of diverse thought, reflections, critical analysis, culturalexpression for a just and equitable collective future.

Shramik Adivasi Sangathan (through Shamim/Anurag) / Betul Madhya Pradesh works in Khandwa, Harda and Betul districts in Madhya Pradeshon issues of tribal control over forests, wages and the large-scale incidence of disease and starvation inthese areas.

Soochi mukhi (through Society for Environment Education Kerala) / Kannur Kerala is a monthly magazine in Malayalam, and formore than twenty years has informed the people of the state on environmental issues, and the consequences ofecological degradation.

Vadodara Kamdar Union / Vadodara Gujarat as a twenty-year-old union of factory workers in Vadodara city, it is not confined totraditional union activities, and works towards a secular, equitable and democratic society in anoften-hostile environment.

Vanangana / Chitrakoot UP is a group that works on women's issues and campaigns against Sati, child abuse within thefamily, and other oppressive practices against women. It also works with dalit and adivasi women on buildinglivelihoods and cooperative activities.

Vividha / Jaipur Rajasthan was formed as a feature service in 2001 to disseminate news of people’s movements andhighlight issues of concern to the poor, by providing stories and analysis to small newspapers andpublications located in small towns across Rajasthan. It already provides a service to over 50 newspapers.