The second edition of Listening to Women Talk about their Health: Issues and Evidence from India comes at an opportune time. The establishment of a womens agency, UN Women, in January 2011, the launch of the UN Secretary-Generals Global Strategy on Womens and Childrens Health in 2010, the Millennium Development Goals…
Suicide a perplexing yet important health hazard and social problem has drawn vast interest from medical psychological and sociological spheres for a long time. In this context the edited volume under review attempts a comprehensive overview and is an important contribution to the growing literature on suicide…
Policy failure arises from various sources; the chapters in this edited volume under review attribute current policy failure to either using improper science or not using proper science in the process of policy making. The major focus of the book is on integrating science and policy in an appropriate manner through a pluralistic approach…
This is a well-researched and thought-provoking analysis of the ‘informal sector’ in urban Delhi: a segment of urban economy—which so far has attracted only the ‘cursory attention of demographers and social scientists’.
I have released many books but this is different said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission at the book launch of Building from the Bottom: Infrastructure and Poverty Alleviation. Ahluwalia said that the book corrects the perception that infrastructure is for (urban) India and not for (rural) Bharat…
Environmental discourses have been ascendant around the world in the last thirty-odd years, and the concept of sustainable development has gained a key place within these since its enunciation by the report Our Common Future (also known as the Brundtland Commission Report) in 1987…