In
the People's Own Court
A Village Demands Right to Information
Compiled by SHERALLY
MUNSHI with files from
MAZDOOR KISAN SHAKTI SANGATHAN
Sita
in the City
The Ramayana's Heroine in New
York
ANNE MURPHY and SHANA
SIPPY
Book Review: Law
and Gender Inequality
The Politics of Women's Rights in India
by Flavia Agnes
Reviewer: MANEESHA
DECKHA
Story: Jirwa-Mai
by Ramanika Gupta
Translated
from Hindi
Getting
Away with Murder
How Law Courts and Police Fail Victims
of Domestic Violence
GEETHADEEVI, MEGHANA,
RAGHUNANDAN, RENUKA and SHOBHA from
VIMOCHANA
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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