Samata in Media

• Ravi Rebbapragada has been conferred the Godfrey Philip National Bravery Award under Social Act of Courage for 2012 from Ggodfrey Phillips India Ltd on 31st March 2012.

• Samatha has been conferred the Godfrey Philip Bravery Award under Social Act of Courage for 2011 from Ggodfrey Phillips India Ltd on 21st September 2011.

• Samatha has been conferred the Lakshmipat Singhania – IIM, Lucknow National Leadership Awards 2008 under the Young Leaders Category in Community Service and Social Upliftment...

• Pause for a Cause – Samata for Tribals, www.metromela.com

• Andhra Ooty Looted - A  News Paper Report in Eenadu, a Telugu Daily on  17-3-06

• An experience of a lifetime for tribal youth, The Hindu, 17 July, 2006

• 15 tribals listed for UNESCO World Youth Festival, The Hindu, June 30, 2006

• Review of beach road work sought, The Hindu, November 16, 2005

• Polavaram hearing a tame affair, The Hindu, October 10, 2005 

• Displaced women narrate their sordid tales, The Hindu, September 28, 2005

• Land for land to oustees demanded, Indian Express, September 16, 2005

• State comes under fire for `unilateral' bauxite pact, The Hindu, September 5, 2005

• Mining project faces rough weather, The Hindu, August 12, 2005

• NGO, tribal body join hands against bauxite mining - Stage protest in front of Anantagiri mandal office, July 23, 2005 

• NGO opposes Jindal project, The Hindu, July 19, 2005

• Bauxite mining in E. Godavari, Vizag districts opposed, Business Line, April 29, 2005

• Tribal Travails, Asha Krishnakumar, Frontline, September 11-24, 2004. 

• Trade and a tradition, Asha Krishnakumar, Frontline, July 17-30, 2004

• Nimalapadu Zero, Down to Earth, Sep 15, 2004

• Row over tribal land acquisition by NMDC, The Times of India, September 15, 2004

• U-project dangers worry parties, The Times of India, September 15, 2004

• Socially good governance , The Hindu, January 7, 2004

• Orissa Allows Mining Projects In Tribal Areas, The Financial Express, December 31, 2003

• Green Summit begins — India Inc shedding crocodile tears: NGOs, Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications, Saturday, Sep 20, 2003

• Radioactive spectres haunt Andhra as Nagarjuna Sagar awaits a uranium mine nearby, S. Anand, Nitin A. Gokhale, UNEP - The Environment in the News, Tuesday, 16 September 2003

• 'Risk assessment not done', The Times of India, August 12, 2003

• Visiting the Women & Panchayati Raj Campaign - Part 1, The Hunger Project, August 2003

• Plans to take up uranium mining in Nalgonda draw flak, The Hindu, 14th July 2003

• Charter of Demands, People's Democracy, Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), December 22,2002

• Espousing tribal rights, The Hindu, August 13, 2002

• Defending the Fifth Schedule, www.indiatogether.org, July, 2001

• Samata fights an exploitative system to give tribals what is rightfully theirs, Outlook, 24 December 2001

• Balco divestment controversy rages on, Business Standars Economy Bureau, Rediff.com, March 6, 2001

• No more structures near Hussainsagar: HC, The Hindu, June 16, 2001

• The Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution and the Samata Judgement, Indigenous Law Bulletin, 2001

• Mrs. Bhanu Pragada a social worker and an activist with the NGO Samata, The Hindu, July 26, 2000

• Naxalites? It's A Stick-Up Rankled by a PWG unit's harassment, tribal women give Naxals a taste of their own medicine, M.S. Shankar, Outlook - April 06, 1998

• Forest dependent survival strategies of tribal women: Implications for joint forest management in Andhra Pradesh, India, Gautam N. Yadama, Bhanu R. Pragada, Ravi R. Pragada, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Bangkok, Thailand

• Sensitizing Lawyers, Personal Website of R.Kannan