By Stalin S
Bahtra village in Karikh block of Bhagalpur district is located some 10 kms from the national highway. Most of the houses in this village are constructed with mud walls and roofed with tiles.

Orissa, one of the least developed states of India, has frequently experienced communal violence caused by fundamentalists in different parts of the states since the last decade. Everyone will remember the heinous crime of burning Australian Missionary Mr. Graham Staines and his two children on the fatefull night of January 1999. Similar such incidences has been continously happening since then.

By Stalin S
Visit to Bellari village at Muraliganj block in Madhepura forced me to think how a disaster can destroy the positive thinking of a society about its future. Giving birth to a child is the happiest moment in the life of women.

Caritas is appealing for US $5,600,000 to help survivors of catastrophic flooding in northeast India. Over 2,500,000 people in the Indian State of Bihar have had to flee the rising flood waters after the Kosi River broke its banks on 18 August following heavy monsoon rains.

By Stalin S
“We had 2 acres of land with lot of coffee, pepper and other crops. We had given some land for “Power Grid” electric project to construct their tower, but they cut down almost one acer of land full of coffee and pepper crops to construct the tower.”