Kavita Panjabi
Women’s Studies (WS) in India emerged in the wake of the women’s movement of the 1970s and shared its transformative goals.
Reviewed by: Sumi Krishna
Steve Inskeep
A city is not an onion that can be unpeeled to reveal its layers. It is a breathing organism shaped by the ideologies that create it.
Reviewed by: Naved Farooqui
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
With the surging idea of civic participation in affairs of governance in India, there cannot be a more opportune time for K.C. Sivaramakrishnan’s book which presents an informative and detailed background of the early efforts made in the area of urban development in the country.
Reviewed by: Aftab Jalia
Meena Menon
Last year marked twenty years of the demolition of Babri Masjid, followed by a series of large-scale communal violence, clashes and riots in different parts of India, especially in the Bombay then and now Mumbai.
Reviewed by: Mahtab Alam
Navroz K. Dubash
Climate change as a political issue has usually been on the backburner in India, coming forth for intense public discussion only around the time when Indian representatives are off to attend yet another round of negotiations.
Reviewed by: Sucharita Sengupta
Ashok Rudra
Professor Rudra’s book, meant more for postgraduate students than for the layman, is an excellent survey of one approach to planned development in India. It deals with the use of ‘formal’ models of economic relationships—‘formal’ in the sense that these relationships are encapsulated in mathematical equations involving exactly specified variables…
Reviewed by: Nitin Desai