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BIO DATA Name: C.R.Bijoy Address: Doctor's Quarters, Sri Ramakrishna Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu India 641 044 Date of Birth: March 22, 1956 Sex: Male Educational [login to view URL] (Honours) in Biological Sciences (1974-79) [Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India] Experience: 1979-80 1980-84 Scientific Officer 1984-89 Project Officer Nature of work : Evolution of alternate strategies/models in rural community health care; Designing, planning, management, monitoring and evaluating community health care projects, developmental projects etc. Since 1989 : • Training of non-government organizations; Themes/issues - Developmental issues as politics, economy, environment, health, tourism, human rights etc; issues of marginalised as women, Dalits, Adivasis/indigenous peoples, skills in social, economic and political analysis etc; • Evaluation of projects/programmes, institutions/non-governmental organizations, people’s organisations; • Attended and presented papers on developmental issues in national and international conferences and seminars; • Published papers, analytical articles, case studies etc in publications/ journals etc • Contributed parts of books published • Freelance work in content analysis and editing related to technology, products, companies and market for Sisinfotech, Hyderabad, India since 2001 Membership/involvement Publications Papers/Articles 1. "Ayurveda, An Appropriate Strategy for Social Health. An Overview of the Indian Panorama", Ancient Science of Life, Vol.1, No.2, 1981, pp.94-101. 2. "Health for All: Which Way to Go?" in "Financing of Health Services in India", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference (1984), The Indian Society of Health Administrators, 1985, pp.259-65. 3. "Indigenous Sciences for Public Health Care", LINK, News Letter of the Asian Community Health Action Network, Vol.9, No.2, July-Aug. 1990, pp.27-28. 4. "The Political Imperative of the Adivasi Question", Religion and Society, Vol.xxxviii, No.3 & 4, Sept.-Dec. 1991, pp.34-37. 5. "The Politics of NGOs - Beyond Survival", Anubhuti, Vol.3, Issue 1, 1992, pp.8-10. 6. "Resisting the Engineering of Health", Anubhuti, Vol.3, Issue 3, 1992, pp.10-14. 7. "Emergence of the Submerged. Indigenous People at the UN", Economic and Political Weekly, June 26, 1993, pp.1357-60. 8. "Tourismus contra Menschenrechte", pogrom, Germany, June/July, 1993. 9. "Luxury Tourism, Dispossessed Adivasi", Dialogue, Vol. II, November 1993. 10. "Adivasis Hunted for Private Zoological Park", Tourism Alternatives, Issue 3, March 1993. 11. "Voices of the Submerged: Adivasis and Forests", VOICES, A Journal on Communication for Development, Vol. I, No.3, 1993, pp.3-5. 12. "Mismanaging Health. Privatisation and Politics of Economy", LINK, News Letter of the Asian Community Health Action Network, Vol.1, No.2, Sept.1995, pp.15-17. 13. "Media and Human Rights: Between Farce and Reality", Coimbatore Press Club Souvenir 1998, pp.118-29. 14. "Adivasis Betrayed: Adivasi Land Rights in Kerala", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIV, No.22, May 29 - June 4, 1999, pp.1329-35. 15. "Adivasis: Colonisation Versus Self-Determination", Integral Liberation, Vol.3, No.4, December 1999, pp.211-19. 16. "The Adivasis of India - A History of Discrimination, Conflict and Resistance", Indigenous Affairs, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1/01, March 2001, pp.54-61. 17. “An Adivasi Uprisingâ€, The Dalit, Jan-Feb., 2002, pp. 22-24. 18. “Reviving Gotra Mahasabhasâ€, The Dalit, Jan-Feb., 2002, pp.25. 19. “Threats and Challenges to Social Action in the Contemporary Politics of Transformation in India: A Critical Reviewâ€, Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights, Vol.7, No.01, January 2003, pp.24-31. 20. “Injustice in God’s Country: The Adivasi Uprising in Keralaâ€, Himal South Asian, Kathmandu, Nepal, Vol.16/3, March 2003, pp.20-23. 21. “Muthanga: The Real Story. Adivasi Movement to Recover Landâ€, [Co-authored with K.Ravi Raman], Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.XXXVIII No.20, May 17-23, 2003, pp.1975-82. 22. “Lessons from Muthangaâ€, Combat Law, The Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 5, December-January 2004, pp. 25-27. 23. “To Ignore is to Violate: The Case of Tamilnaduâ€, Combat Law, The Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 5, December-January 2004, pp.30. 24. “Biopatents and Bio-Piracy: Controlling Lifeâ€, Indigenous Knowledge Applications for Livestock Care, Proceedings of a National Workshop, 14-17 September, 2004, Anthra, pp.99-112 25.“Oppose illegal attempts of evicting forest people†Forest Voices, January 2004. 26. "A Bill in the Woods’ Business Standard, 9 May 2005. 27.“India: End of Forest Evictions? New Forest Billâ€, [Co-authored with Soumitra Gosh], WRM's bulletin Nº 106, May 2006. 28.“Kerala’s Plachimada Struggle. A Narrative on Water and Governance Rightsâ€, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.XLI No.41, October 14-20,2006, pp.4332-39. [login to view URL] 29. ‘Access and Benefit Sharing from the Indigenous Peoples’ Perspective: The TBGRI-Kani ‘Model’’, 3/1 Law, Environment and Development Journal (2007), p. -1-19. [login to view URL] 30. Special Economic Zones: Profits At Any Cost [login to view URL] 31. What’s wrong with ‘Rights’? ‘Rights’ Panel, Seedling, GRAIN, October 2007 [login to view URL] Books 1. "Cross Roads on the Way to People's Health Care" in "Development Intervention and Programme Evaluation", Edited by Vijay Padaki, Sage Publications, 1995, pp.142-64. 2. Contributed chapters compiled in "Jai Adibasi", Edited by SARINI (Solidarity Action Research & Information International), 1995, Pages 150. 3. Compiled and edited along with Johannes Laping "Indigenous Peoples in India", SARINI Occasional Papers No.1, 1997, Pages 61. 4. Compiled and edited along with Johannes Laping "Jai Jharkhand", SARINI Occasional Papers No.2, 1999, Pages 126. 5. Contributed sections on India in "The Indigenous World 1995-96", pp.203-7; "The Indigenous World 1996-97", pp.217-19; "The Indigenous World 1997-98", pp.281-84, "The Indigenous World 1998-99", 282-85, "
