Apart
from a whole range of concerned women of every
age, background and class, Manushi
is also read by a wide variety of social and
political activists, students, teachers, professionals
and people interested in women’s issues
and struggles in South Asia.
Even
though we cannot directly reach the poor and
marginalised whose issues Manushi
gives prime focus we have managed to build
connections with a large number of those working
with rural and urban poor women, who are either
making efforts to organise them politically
or acting as social or health workers. The
Hindi publication was widely used in literacy
classes; some translate articles from Manushi
in the language of their region and read it
aloud to illiterate women, while many others
who could not use it directly because of language
barriers have tried to incorporate some of
Manushi’s ideas into their
work. In this way, very slowly, the ideas
and information in Manushi have had
a wide impact.
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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