S. Teki & R.K. Mishra
To argue that banking cannot be done with the poor because they do not have collateral is the same as arguing that men cannot fly because they do not have wings.* – – Muhammad Yunus
Reviewed by: Indrani Roy Chowdhury
S.K. Das
The past decade has seen the introduction of a series of rights-based legislations in India, which the author calls a ‘veritable rights revolution’, with the enactment of the Right to Information Act (in 2005), the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (in 2005), the Forest Rights’ Act (in 2006) and the Right to Education Act (in 2009).
Reviewed by: Atishi Marlena
Ajay Gudavarthy
Let us begin by posing a simple question: have contemporary western democracies ceased to interrogate their political (democratic) processes? Not quite, perhaps.
Reviewed by: Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
William H. Thornton and Songok Han Thornton
At first glance, one cannot help but overlook the idiom ‘never judge a book by its cover’, and, quite rightly so. If the title of Toward a Geopolitics of Hope intrigues, the provocative stance and ideas presented throughout the tome do not fail to deliver either.
Reviewed by: Nayantara Shaunik
Rubina Saigol
The feminist perspective of Pakistan is one that recognizes and explains how a nation is created through the intersection of ideologies and structures of patriarchy and how these mould the identities as well as relations between genders, between people and communities.
Reviewed by: Anuradha Chenoy
Hiranmay Karlekar
There has been a plethora of books on Afghanistan in the last few years; un-fortunately, most of them have been written by Europeans and Americans.
Reviewed by: D. Suba Chandran