Spring 2006
A Troubled Lake
Action Village India began supporting Ekta Parishad Orissa’s small team on Chilka Lake, near Puri, in April 2005. Some six months later, as part of a small fact-finding team, AVI Coordinator Ivan Nutbrown had his first opportunity to visit the lake.

Ekta’s Chhattisgarh Yatra
Julius Reubke, the founder of Friends of Ekta Parishad in Cologne, walked with Ekta Parishad on this march to draw attention to the social and environmental disasters of rapid industrialisation in Chhattisgarh. This is his report to European supporters.

Letter from Rajagopal PV
The following open letter was written by Rajagopal PV, Ekta Parishad’s founder and president, a few days into the footmarch in Chhattisgarh.

Guardian January 2005

Driven from their Land
The dispossessed and poverty-stricken people of Orissa in India are fighting back, says Randeep Ramesh in the state capital Bhubaneshwar

Spring 2005

Ekta Parishad March to Victory
Simon Morrow, one of four AVI supporters, spent the whole of February with Ekta Parishad on its land rights padyatra (foot march) through the Eastern state of Orissa.

Spring 2004 No. 25

Land Struggle in Kerala
It was at the World Social Forum this year that Rajgopal PV, the National Convener of Ekta Parishad, came under fire from a group of European journalists. Speaking to them during Ekta's 'International Celebration of Land', which ran alongside the main events, he fronted questions on the well-publicised 'Muthanga incident' that had taken place in Kerala a year earlier.

Truth Force
Helena Drakakis and Simon Williams' booklet, Truth Force, on Ekta Parishad's 2003 Chhattisgarh yatra is now being published in German. And following Rajagopal's contact with MST at the World Social Forum and subsequent visit to Brazil, AVI is supporting its publication in Portuguese and Hindi.
Truth Force, a 64 page booklet of writing and photographs from the Chhattisgarh yatra is available from AVI for £4 (inc p&p). The first two chapters can be previewed here, or the whole booklet may be downloaded as a pdf (4mb) here.

Summer 2003

The Spirit of Change
An interview with Rajgopal P. V., National convenor of Ekta Parishad.


Summer 2002

Ekta Parishad Youth Camps 


Spring 2001

Saying it with Umbrella's

This report, by Rahul Ramalingam, shows an innovative protest by Ekta Parishad can bring good media coverage and change policies.

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