So much has been written about Mumbai’s Dharavi—the ‘slum’, the ‘city’, the ‘urban settlement’. Books, articles, feature films, documentaries—an idea of Dharavi has emerged through multiple sources.
If there is any one specific condition that belies the hype of the success of the new economy in India, then it is that of the state of food security.
In the spring and early summer of last year, British newspapers and television repeatedly covered the subject of the recruitment of mercenaries in the United Kingdom; but even if you were a regular reader or viewer, you could not always be certain of just what slant was being given to the subject.
India’s tentative economic miracle faces many hurdles, but one of the chief difficulties is sustaining the political impetus for reform.
This book contains a number of papers, mostly in the field of public finance, written by Professor Nanjundappa during the years 1961-1968. Except for two articles on ‘Wages, Prices and Employment’ and ‘Restrictive Trade Practices and Public Policy’, the articles included in the volume deal with questions…
More than a century of Indian cricket history is comprehended in this succinct work, Indian Cricket. The book deals with first-class cricket in India and also touches on the tours by Indian teams abroad and by foreign teams in India.