About Claude Alvares
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Books written
De-Colonizing History: Technology & Culture in India, China and the West. 1500 to the Present Day. (Allied, New Delhi; Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague; Other India Press, Goa).
Science, Development & Violence. Oxford University Press, Delhi.
Both these books are available for free download at Multiversitylibrary.com
With Ramesh Billorey:
Damming the Narmada. Third World Network, Malaysia.
Editor:
Unwanted Guest: Goans Versus Du Pont.
Another Revolution Fails. Ajanta Books International.
Fish, Curry and Rice: A Citizens’ Report on the Goan Environment, Other India Press, Goa.
Organic Farming Resource Book, Other India Press.
Multiversity, Other India Press.
With Ashis Nandy and others:
Science, Hegemony and Violence. Oxford University Press.
The Blinded Eye, Other India Press.
With Wolfgang Sachs:
The Development Dictionary, Zed Books, London.
With Tom Wakeford:
Science for the Earth, Wiley, London.
Current projects:
Organic Farming Sourcebook (4th edition)
Book on C.V. Seshadri (commissioned by Premlatha Seshadri and MCRC, Chennai)
The Learning Sourcebook (with Nyla Coelho, Gurveen Kaur and Navina Venkat)
Current involvements:
Member, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes;
Director (1986- ), The Goa Foundation;
Member, High Court Committee on Noise Pollution
Working Director, Green Goa Works;
Director, Central Secretariat, Organic Farming Association of India;
Coordinator, Multiversity;
Governing Trustee of Other India Bookstore;
Editor, Other India Press, Goa, India.
Former member, Goa State Coastal Zone Management Authority.
Personal Matters:
Happily married for over 30 years to Norma Alvares, animal rights activist and environmental lawyer at the Bombay High Court. They have three sons: Rahul (herpetologist); Sameer (musician) and Milind (design).