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Towards Safe and Respectful Maternity Care

The National Rural Health Mission has provided disadvantaged women with better access to maternal healthcare, but obstetric practices can sometimes be egregious, adverse, and even violent. Gender and…
▶19-Sep-2023
Aditi Iyer

Growth, Structural Change, and Opportunities: Who has Benefited?

While the connection between GDP and job growth in India has been poor, there has been a rapid increase of women in the modern services; while there has been greater job mobility, this has been very…
▶20-Sep-2023
Amit Basole, Akshit Arora, M. K. Shravan
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Book Review

The Need to Reinvent and Adapt the Work of Patrick Geddes

A new study of Patrick Geddes’ work in in India underlines the urban planner’s continued relevance to contemporary issues. But we have to ask ourselves why Geddes’s ideas have failed to gain traction…
▶18-Sep-2023
A. G. Krishna Menon
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Essay

Why has the Rule of Law become so Fragile?

‘There is law that applies to certain criminal activities, which are usually connected to older, corporal forms of power and profit, but there is a clear lack of law, or its applicability, to newer…
▶13-Sep-2023
Tabish Khair
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Book Review

Alternative Visions of Educating India

Innovative school programmes to build more appropriate ways of learning and teaching have ultimately floundered on the question of integration with the formal education system.
▶13-Sep-2023
Vidya Subramanian

The Acceptability of Surrogacy

Whose recourse to surrogacy is accepted socially and whose is frowned upon, or even legally prohibited, is a chequered terrain. Popular stereotypes have seeped into policymaking, even as social ways…
▶07-Sep-2023
Sneha Banerjee

Can the G20 Achieve Much in the Shadow of Conflict?

Disagreement about Russia and the Ukrainian war have stymied consensus on broader issues at the G20. Neutral presidencies like India's will make the grouping trudge along, but just that.
▶07-Sep-2023
Tom Chodor

Why We Must Think of ‘Post-Growth’

What is post-growth thinking and how is it different from the growth-centric thinking that is dominant today? A discussion of some principles of post-growth approaches to the economy, including of…
▶30-Aug-2023
Rajeswari S. Raina
Book
Book Review

All You Want to Know About Urdu Crime Fiction

Having grown up on mysteries and thrillers in both English and Urdu, Naim has produced a painstakingly researched volume that will also be of great interest to the reader of crime fiction.
▶04-Sep-2023
C.K. Meena

The Politics over California’s Anti-Caste Bill

Anxiety amongst upper-caste diaspora that their narrative about a benign Indian culture would be undone lies at the heart of the opposition to California’s bill to ban caste discrimination.
▶30-Aug-2023
Prabodh Jamwal, Anuradha Bhasin

Big Problems, Small Wins

Despite good intentions, much in the new Rajasthan gig workers act is built on weak foundations, which will make it difficult to implement. This makes it unlikely that the workers will actually get…
▶22-Aug-2023
Sabina Dewan

Jayanta Mahapatra: A Poetry of Decreation

'Patience, a quality of attention which is the finest refinement of desire, distinguished the work of Jayanta Mahapatra'. Meena Alexander's discussion of Jayanta Mahapatra's…
▶29-Aug-2023
Meena Alexander
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