Literature on the relationship between gender and violence has largely focused on theorizing specific acts of violence (rape, dowry, female infanticide, domestic violence among others) or on documenting the experiences of violence against women across the world. The latest publication by the editors Piya Chatterjee (Associate Professor…
China and India are among the few exceptions in the world which continue to show stark deprivations that are specific to women orgirl children while the per capita GDP growth has been moving ahead at a phenomenal pace. Neglect of a section of the population has resulted in the lower survival rates of women and female children…
Over the last three and a half decades or so, one of the most striking phenomena has been the emergence of the medical industry as the second largest industry in the world, after, of course, arms.
This volume is the outcome of a regional conference, called the Second SAARC Business Conclave that brought together a numberof key players from the private sector, policy makers, and academics who expressed hope that if the reform processes are in place, South Asia has the potential to achieve and sustain higher growth…
If nation states in their very creation are majoritarian in their thrust besides being the repositories of (often unbridled power) how havecertain institutions and instruments of minority rights protection proved effective in Europe but remained singularly undeveloped in South Asia?While this question posed succinctly in the foreword to this anthology remains unanswered in all its complexity, the work is a substantive and thorough exploration of ‘minority’, a concept that is both rich and diverse…
2006 had been a fraught year for Bangladesh. Differences between the two major political parties, the Awami League (AL) and theBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) that go well beyond democratic discourse has been a constant in Bangladesh for over thirty years. What now lent a special edge was the determination of the BNP…