Article: India: Grassroots Heroine With A Will Of Steel

The 2008 'Chingari Award for Women Against Corporate Crime' has been announced, and this year the laurels go to Dayamani Barla, the Jharkhand activist, journalist and torchbearer of the struggle for land rights of the displaced Munda tribe, to which she belongs. As leader of the Adivasi-Moolavasi Astitva Raksha Manch (Front for the Protection of Identities of Tribal People and Original Dwellers), she has spearheaded a sustained campaign against Arcelor Mittal's $8.79 billion steel ...

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