Rural Development and the agricultural sector, much in the fashion of socialism and empathy for the poor, has acquired any number of exponents and path-finders and people concerned enough to exhort everyone else to practise the ‘faith’—since everyone swears by it as if it were a faith in itself.
Soviet Indian friendship…is an important factor for peace and stability in the current tense situation and an example of how countries with different systems can fruitfully cooperate
All the three books under review deal with significant dimensions of Indian social structure and are works of noted social -anthropologists. Notwithstanding the inevitable overlaps, I propose to discuss them successively in the order in which they are listed.
Islam and Muslims are quite important subjects not only in India but in the world at large. The Middle East always remains in the news thanks to many regional conflicts in the area.
If daily news and commentary can be likened to an enormous and often indigestible meal, the daily cartoon must surely be—at least in the Indian context—the pickle, something to make you take a sharp breath or smack your lips or, on the rare occasion, force a muted expletive.
Mera koi hai nahinGhar mujhe chaahiye:Ghar ke bheetar prakash hoIs ki mujhe chintaa nahin hai;Prakash ke Ghere ke bheetar meraghar ho —Isi ki mujhe talaash hai.