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A school for everyone
A new take on private schools in developing countries, which sees them not as money-making machines exploiting the poor, but as a much needed asset that can help fulfil the goal of a decent education for all More... Painful factsOver 7 million people in India suffer avoidable pain simply because they have no access to morphine, says a Human Rights Watch report on India’s obligation to ensure palliative care More... Dalits: Such a long journeyTwo books -- one offering a historical perspective, the other bearing the immediacy and thrust of the present -- focus on the prejudices and oppression faced by dalits in India, and on ‘battles’ fought, won and lost in their ongoing struggle More... People cause climate changeScientific and diplomatic discussions have steered clear of the contentious question of population growth and greenhouse gases. UNFPA’s 2009 State of the World Population report tackles the question head-on and asserts that smaller families means less people and less greenhouse gases More... Vulnerability of Asian cities to climate changeA WWF report lists 11 major Asian cities most vulnerable to climate change and says the impacts are already being seen and felt. Action must be taken now to mitigate the effects on the large populations of these cities More... Manipur: A history of strifeKS Subramanian was part of an independent citizens’ fact-finding mission to Manipur that presents its findings in the capital on November 23. This article traces the history of violence in the strife-torn state and analyses the deteriorating situation since July 23, 2009 More... Ideas of justiceLawrence Liang is disappointed with Amartya Sen’s ‘The Idea of Justice’, which seems to offer us a competing political theory, but not necessarily a competing political vision More... A limited liberationActivist and social critic Vinodinee Neelkanth, like most other women writers of the early-20th century, favoured the empowerment of women, as long as they left undisturbed their roles as wife and mother. It was left to the male writers of the ’20s and ’30s to create vibrant, non-conformist female characters More... Indian police: A law unto themselvesThe new Human Rights Watch report is a damning indictment of dysfunction, abuse and impunity in the Indian police system, says IPS veteran K S Subramanian More... Saffron politics and dalit mobilisationBadri Narayan’s book Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation attempts to deconstruct the tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilise dalits to its side. It explains how community myths have been appropriated and twisted to oppose the composite heritage of the people More... War for water -- and one victoryA report highlights how far rural water and sanitation has still to go, while the success story of the twin cities of Hubli-Dharwad shows the way forward for urban India More... Women’s work: Never done and poorly paidJayati Ghosh’s new book on women’s work in globalising India reveals the Indian state’s patriarchal attitude towards women’s work More... Pluralism and the baulsMimlu Sen writes about Bengal’s famous baul singers and their pluralist visions of the world with depth and humour, and the immediacy of an insider. The bauls’ simple way of life is under threat from urbanisation and consumerism More... More Himalayan follies?The new ‘United Nations World Water Development Report 3’ carries alarming warnings about the impact of glacial melts in the Himalayas. But over 450 hydropower projects are being planned in the Himalayas without taking the consequences of climate change into account, says a report from International Rivers More... Savitribai Phule: Forgotten liberatorSavitribai Phule’s name is not in the history books alongside the Rani of Jhansi and others. But it deserves to be. She, along with her husband Jotiba Phule, was a pioneer in the struggle against oppression of women, dalits, adivasis and religious minorities. A new book sketches her life and work More... |
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