Stories written by Ranjit Devraj
Regional editor Ranjit Devraj, based in Delhi, takes care of the journalistic production from the Asia and Pacific region. He handles a group of influential writers based in places like Bangkok, Rangoon, Tehran, Dubai, Karachi, Colombo, Melbourne, Beijing and Tokyo, among many others. He coordinates with the editor in chief and forms part of the IPS editorial team. Ranjit Devraj has been an IPS correspondent in India since 1997. Prior to that he was a special correspondent with the United News of India news agency. Assignments for UNI included development of the agency’s overseas operations, particularly in the Gulf region. Devraj counts two years in the trenches (1989-1990) covering the violent Gorkha autonomy movement in the Darjeeling Hills as most valuable in a career of varied journalistic experience.

INDIA: Critics Dispute Success of Genetically Engineered Cotton

By Ranjit Devraj
Claims made by India's ministry for environment and forests that the first officially-approved crop of genetically modified cotton has been a success are being challenged by independent scientists and farmers' groups.

HEALTH-INDIA: Celebrity Anti-HIV Campaign Hit by Hostile Media

By Ranjit Devraj
An anti-HIV campaign involving visits to India by celebrity donors such as billionaire Bill Gates and Hollywood idol Richard Gere has become bogged down by hostile publicity in the local media.

HEALTH-INDIA: Celebrity Anti-HIV Campaign Hit by Hostile Media

By Ranjit Devraj
An anti-HIV campaign involving visits to India by celebrity donors such as billionaire Bill Gates and Hollywood idol Richard Gere has become bogged down by hostile publicity in the local media.

POLITICS: Compassion Must Be the New Religion – Dalai Lama

By Ranjit Devraj
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, called Wednesday for the establishment of compassion as the new universal religion - ironically on a day when a special court in India sentenced three men to death for complicity in a militant attack on Parliament a year ago.

POLITICS: Compassion Must Be the New Religion – Dalai Lama

By Ranjit Devraj
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, called Wednesday for the establishment of compassion as the new universal religion -- ironically on a day when a special court in India sentenced three men to death for complicity in a militant attack on Parliament a year ago.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Biodiversity Act, Biopiracy Act

By Ranjit Devraj
India's newly passed biodiversity act has come under strong criticism from leading environmental activists who say the legislation alienates indigenous farmers from their own resources - but facilitates biopiracy.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Biodiversity Act, Biopiracy Act

By Ranjit Devraj
India's newly passed biodiversity act has come under strong criticism from leading environmental activists who say the legislation alienates indigenous farmers from their own resources - but facilitates biopiracy.

POLITICS: For Tibetans, Compassion is Antidote to Terrorism

By Ranjit Devraj
With war clouds gathering over Iraq and his chosen country of refuge, India, in the throes of religious strife, Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has stressed the value of compassion as the only viable antidote to terrorism in a 'Tibetan Festival of Compassion' that opened here Thursday.

POLITICS: For Tibetans, Compassion is Antidote to Terrorism

By Ranjit Devraj
With war clouds gathering over Iraq and his chosen country of refuge, India, in the throes of religious strife, Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has stressed the value of compassion as the only viable antidote to terrorism in a 'Tibetan Festival of Compassion' that opened here Thursday.

POLITICS: For Tibetans, Compassion is Antidote to Terrorism

By Ranjit Devraj
With war clouds gathering over Iraq and his chosen country of refuge, India, in the throes of religious strife, Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has stressed the value of compassion as the only viable antidote to terrorism in a 'Tibetan Festival of Compassion' that opened here Thursday.

POLITICS: India Ready to Send Army after Forest Brigand

By Ranjit Devraj
The Indian federal government pledged in Parliament, Monday, to call in the army to apprehend a forest brigand believed responsible for the death of H Nagappa, a former minister in southern Karnataka state that he kidnapped and dragged away into the jungles three months ago.

POLITICS: India Ready to Send Army after Forest Brigand

By Ranjit Devraj
The Indian federal government pledged in Parliament, Monday, to call in the army to apprehend a forest brigand believed responsible for the death of H Nagappa, a former minister in southern Karnataka state that he kidnapped and dragged away into the jungles three months ago.

POLITICS: India Ready to Send Army after Forest Brigand

By Ranjit Devraj
The Indian federal government pledged in Parliament, Monday, to call in the army to apprehend a forest brigand believed responsible for the death of H Nagappa, a former minister in southern Karnataka state that he kidnapped and dragged away into the jungles three months ago.

POLITICS: India Ready to Send Army after Forest Brigand

By Ranjit Devraj
The Indian federal government pledged in Parliament, Monday, to call in the army to apprehend a forest brigand believed responsible for the death of H Nagappa, a former minister in southern Karnataka state that he kidnapped and dragged away into the jungles three months ago.

POLITICS: India Ready to Send Army after Forest Brigand

By Ranjit Devraj
The Indian federal government pledged in Parliament, Monday, to call in the army to apprehend a forest brigand believed responsible for the death of H Nagappa, a former minister in southern Karnataka state that he kidnapped and dragged away into the jungles three months ago.

SCIENCE-INDIA: Animal Lovers Get Scientists’ Goat

By Ranjit Devraj
When five men were lynched for skinning a cow at Jhajjar, a small town 50 km west of the Indian capital in October, authorities ordered a post-mortem on the animal to determine whether it had been killed for its hide or was already dead previously.

SCIENCE-INDIA: Animal Lovers Get Scientists’ Goat

By Ranjit Devraj
When five men were lynched for skinning a cow at Jhajjar, a small town 50 km west of the Indian capital in October, authorities ordered a post-mortem on the animal to determine whether it had been killed for its hide or was already dead previously.

INDIA: After Beatings, Activists Promised Access to Bhopal Site

By Ranjit Devraj
After brutal beatings and police detention, environmental activists have been promised free access to investigate and conduct tests at the pesticides factory in central Bhopal city which 18 years ago was the scene of the world's worst industrial disaster.

INDIA: After Beatings, Activists Promised Access to Bhopal Site

By Ranjit Devraj
After brutal beatings and police detention, environmental activists have been promised free access to the pesticides factory in central Bhopal city which 18 years ago was the scene of the world's worst ever industrial disaster.

INDIA: After Beatings, Activists Promised Access to Bhopal Site

By Ranjit Devraj
After brutal beatings and police detention, environmental activists have been promised free access to the pesticides factory in central Bhopal city which 18 years ago was the scene of the world's worst ever industrial disaster.

POLITICS-INDIA: Caste May Yet Spoil Hindu Party in Gujarat Polls

By Ranjit Devraj
Attempts by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party to whip up Hindu sentiment to retain hold of western Gujarat in state assembly elections this month may fail badly because of serious caste differences within the majority community, analysts say.
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