The private sector dominates the contemporary healthcare system in India. As a result the working poor experience adverse health outcomes (Qadeer 2013). The healthcare experience of countries such as Cuba indicates that universal healthcare is achievable at relatively low cost…
Smita Sahgal, Niyoga Alternative Mechanism to Lineage Perpetuation in Early India A Socio-Historical Enquiry Delhi: Primus Books, 2017, 242 pages, Rs 995 Submission has been held to be an appropriate virtue of women. It was supposed that a woman submits…
Photographs in journalism can be viewed as standard evidence for historical occurrences which tend to acquire a hidden political significance. Such photographs demand attention and interpretation that can make sense of the reality captured in a particular space and time.…
Wagish Shukla, an eminent writer and formidable scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian, an unabashed ‘Traditionalist’ who to many of his critics is ‘actually a right-winger’, told me a decade ago, ‘Namwar Singh is the last person in Hindi who…
Anand Chakravarti, Is This Azaadi? Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2018, (xiv+266) 280 pages, Rs 750. This book is a major contribution to the ongoing research in the academic sphere on…