Of
Kunti and Satyawati
Sexually Assertive Women of the Mahabharata
PRADIP BHATTACHARYA
In Letter, Not in Spirit
Tokenism Marks Women’s Political
Participation in Bangladesh
NAZMUNESSA MEHTAB
Rejoinder: An
Alarmist Reaction
Distortions in the Name of Political
Correctness
J.K. BAJAJ
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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