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| The Brilliance of Sunshine and a Historic Life |
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| A Tribute to Prabha ben Shah (March 6, 1920 – December 19, 2008) |
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Author(s) : Bindu Desai
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| Prabhaben Shah came from an aristocratic Gujarati family but came under Mahatma Gandhi's influence early on in life and adopted a cause very dear to the Mahatma - that of reviving India's handicrafts and indigenous technologies as part of his vision of swaraj - a life long mission.
In this work she was deeply influenc... |
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| What is Wrong with the "Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act" |
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Author(s) : Siddhartha Shome
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| Education, especially universal primary education, is an important part of any civilized society. For us Indians, it is a matter of serious concern that even today, more than sixty years after independence, universal primary education remains a distant dream.
With the stated intention of addressing this sorry situatio... |
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| Pratima Singh: A Woman of Rare Courage |
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| Story of a Daughter’s Battle against a Rapist and Murderous Father |
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Author(s) : A Manushi Report
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| Pratima’s story is not an ordinary case of family abuse. It tells us a lot about the nature of the Indian state and how it has come to be dominated by criminal elements at all levels. The corrupt and the venal amongst our power wielders regularly use their leverage with the state machinery to benefit their kith a... |
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| They Clean Our City but Live in Filth |
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| Glimpses into the Lives of Delhi's Ragpickers |
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Author(s) : Heena Mehra
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| Nothing prepared me for the first day at Jahangirpuri in a community of rag pickers, of whose existence I had previously been oblivious. I was there observing a health mela, explaining the procedure slum dwellers needed to follow to get treatment from the attending eye doctors and physicians. I did not know that doctor... |
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| From Manushi Archives : Facing Extermination |
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A Report on the Present State of the Gods and Goddesses in South Asia
First Published in no. 99, March - April 1997 |
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Author(s) : Ashis Nandy
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| SOME years ago, in the city of Bombay, a young Muslim playwright wrote and staged a play that had gods — Hindu gods and goddesses — as major characters. Such plays are not uncommon in India; some would say that they are all too common. This one also included gods and goddesses who were heroic, grand, schem... |
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| Knowing Him Through the Ruptures of Desire |
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Author(s) : Parinitha Shetty
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| The men to whom I belonged, said,
”Beware of those men.
They will impregnate you
With a hard hate
Made soft with the deceit of desire.
They will caress your thighs with fingers
Beneath whose nails
are the scrapings of the stench
Of slaughtered cows.
They will place the white skull cap
On the tender hea... |
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| Multi Party Dialogue on the Future of J&K |
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| A Report |
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Author(s) : Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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| The November 7, 2009 Dialogue on the Future of Jammu & Kashmir, organized by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in collaboration with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, has evoked a great deal of debate and discussion. Most of those who attended considered it a historic breakthrough because we man... |
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