LiberationPerspectives fromthe South, an edited volume by Dzodzi Tsikata, Archana Prasad, and Paris Yeros, is a study of gendered relations and women’s struggles in the agrarian context of the global ...

Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a UNESCO World Heritage site, is often seen as a model for conservation in India. The park attracts global attention for its diverse flora, fauna, and the one-horned ...

In a landmark policy declaration in 2016, the Government of India vowed to double farmers’ income by 2022, marking a radical departure from conventional production-driven strategies to a bold, ...

The latest in these efforts that could have significant consequences is the resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to impose what would effectively be a colonial mandate with ...

Most are grounded in specific medical conditions or histories, such as cancer, hepatitis, or recent surgery, or in the documented health status of a spouse or partner. But one category of exclusion ...

Summarising the results on poverty in India reported in Panagariya and More (2014), it was noted that poverty declined significantly across social, religious, and economic groups, in both rural and ...

This resolution has rewarded genocide, taken steps for institutionalising colonialism, set precedents for reversing the basic principles of international law and delegitimised the UN.

Historian Badri Narayan (2006), in his edited book Upekshit Samudayon Ka Atma Itihas, identified this trend in historical writing and categorised it into three distinct phases. In the first phase ...

This time, the studies are on two villages of Tamil Nadu, namely, Palakurichi and Venmani, in Nagapattinam district. The advantage of studying one of these villages, namely Palakurichi, is that it ...

Reading this book, one cannot be struck by an absence of nuance as Gurcharan Das presents the dilemma that he faces. Das’s book is a slim, “essay-length” one, as he calls it, which is an easy-breezy ...

These crops, while serving as vital inputs for the industrial expansion of the colonising power, simultaneously entrenched widespread poverty within the colony (Raychaudhuri 1985; Patnaik and Patnaik ...

The Malayalam movie Bramayugam (2024) is lauded for its critique of the hierarchies of power, especially highlighting the evils of the caste system in Kerala. It underscores how power corrupts the ...