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Stories from 'Other India'
Struggle India Reader questions the goal of ‘development’ in India, since liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation were ‘unleashed’ upon the country in the mid-’80s More... Amartya Sen: A man for many seasonsIs multiculturalism different from pluralism? Can an individual have several different identities at the same time, none of them conflicting? These questions are at the core of Amartya Sen's new book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny More... Clear evidence that investment in TB control works: WHO director generalThree of the world's six regions are expected to achieve tuberculosis (TB) control targets set by the World Health Assembly, according to a new report on the global status of the disease published ahead of World TB Day on March 24 More... Malnutrition amongst Maharashtra's tribals: How bad is it?A survey of 22 tribal villages in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district throws up disturbing facts about levels of malnutrition among children. The root of the problem is the absence of sustainable livelihoods More... World ill-prepared for bird flu: WHOA World Health Organisation factsheet on the H5NI virus, or avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, answers frequently asked questions about the disease More... Suman's storyPremchand has always used his women characters as the lens through which society is critiqued. A reading his 'Sevasadan' in English translation almost 90 years after it was written brings home the fact that little has changed: women are still striving to control their own destinies More... Missing mothers and grandmothersA lush book of photographs of Indian women in the colonial period focuses on the women we all know -- the freedom fighters, the social reformers, the artists. But where are the ordinary women -- our mothers and grandmothers? More... Poverty in India increasingly region-, group-specific, says 'Social Development Report'A pathbreaking new report assesses development issues like poverty, unemployment, health and sanitation, urban governance, decentralisation, communal relations and how far women and marginalised groups have progressed across the social indices. It finds that the spatial map and social base of poverty in India have significantly changed over time More... Bihar fails India's elementary education test, but its kids are brightAccording to the latest 'Annual Status of Education Report', while elementary school enrolment levels in India's villages are high across the country, there is a lot of scope for improvement in school facilities. Most urgent is that attention needs to be paid to the learning component at government schools More... India, China's resource consumption on the rise: 'State of the World' reportA recently released report by the Worldwatch Institute indicts India and China for being extremely high consumers of the world's resources and looks for alternative solutions to the problem More... The richer the district, the poorer the sex ratioA study by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics establishes a clear correlation between the number of sonography centres and decline in child sex ratio in Maharashtra. The average sex ratio for districts with more than 100 sonography centres is 901 and for districts with less than 100 sonography centres it is 937 More... Financing urban housing a major challenge says UN-HABITATA new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme warns world governments of a worsening urban housing crisis if they cannot come up with the money to build 96,150 houses per day for an additional 2 billion city-dwellers by 2030 More... |
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