Landscapes and lives: Environmental dispatches on rural India - Sharma Mukul (Oxford University Press New Delhi, 2001)
Keywords: Landscapes -- Coastal Regulation -- Agricultural Land -- Dispute over water : Private Ganga, Dalits and water rights -- Fickle river basin : Diara diary -- Hurly-burly in coastal seaboard : Mechanized v/s traditional fishing, fishing harbour, deep sea fishing policy draws flak, aquaculture- midst of blue revolution, coastal regulation zones -- Cursed dam : Sardar Sarovar project- life in an emergency, suvarnarekha project -- Travails of land : Agricultural land, forest land. surplus land, employment, remapping ralegan siddhi -- Inland fissures : Wetland -- Forests under siege : Naxal, khaksitoli, nawadih, Chackopi, maharashtra, Orissa -- Divorce between industry and labor/ labour : Pollution and workers health, slow death from stone crushing, guilty industries, fumbling for solutions, Shrmajivi hospital -- Caught between borders : Case of Indian and Pakistani fishermen, Pakistani fishermen in Indian jails, Indian fishermen in Pakistani jails, killing of Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen, fall out of ethnic conflict and terrorism, Palk bay fisheries, Sri Lankan deep sea fishing in deep waters -- Himalayan effects : Villages of Chipko movement, Tangsa- water development, sisters cultivate tree friendly marriages, threat of mega projects