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From Our Own Correspondent: Ecuador and India 

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Personal stories and insights from Nick Haslam in Amazonia and Timothy Allen in Meghalaya.

Owen Bennett Jones with personal stories from Nick Haslam, exploring Ecuador's Amazon and a scheme to protect it from oil drilling; and Timothy Allen, meeting the marginalised menfolk of Meghalaya.

Owen Bennett Jonees introduces personal stories, wit and insight from correspondents around the world. 

In this edition, Nick Haslam explores Ecuador's Amazonian regions, and a bold new plan to raise funds to keep them unspoilt by oil exploitation; while Timothy Allen in Meghalaya, where matriliny holds sway, meets some of India's most marginalised menfolk.

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