When
we began to think of putting together a magazine,
we felt that we could no longer remain a university
women’s group, so we started contacting
various people in Delhi. We made a special
attempt to involve women to play a leading
role this endeavour. Since there were very,
very few active social organisations in those
days, we had to mobilise personal friends,
acquaintances, and women active in different
fields, in political parties, unions, and
so on to come together to support the launch
of Manushi. This process brought together
a very loose group of about 50 people who
developed the idea further in a series of
discussions attended by a very heterogeneous
and fluctuating group of women and some male
sympathizers. Some attended only one or two
meetings, others came as and when they could,
while two of us took the responsibility of
keeping it going.
Challenges
of Governance and
Globalization in India
(Oxford University Press)
MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR
Deepening
Democracy brings together essays on enduring
issues such as human rights, governance,
and the impact of globalization on the Indian
citizen. The covers a range of issues from
a glimpse of the License-Permit-
Raid Raj as
it affects the livelihood of the selfemployed
poor, to a critique of India’s farm and
economic policies. It further discusses the new
divides being created by the country’s language
policy to the causes and possible remedies for
ethnic conflicts in India (Read
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Women Bhakta Poets:
Contains
accounts of the life and poetry of some
of the most outstanding women in Indian
history from the 6th to the 17th
century — Mirabai, Andal, Avvaiyar,
Muktabai, Janabai, Bahinabai, Lal
Ded, Toral,
Loyal. Many of these poems had never neen translated
into english before (Read
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