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Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

Is Notebandi Pushing the Indian Economy towards Recession?

Image Courtesy: Debraya   Prime Minister Modi’s demonetisation seems to be...

सरकार ने जनता के पैसे पर डाला डाका, भारत को लगेगा खरबों रुपए का झटका- फोर्ब्स

नई दिल्ली। भारत में नोटबंदी के फैसले को प्रतिष्ठित...

Currency Shortage: It Could be June or Sept 2017 Before the Crunch Eases

 A Monumental Further Disaster in the Offing! High denomination notes...

SC Judgement on SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, December 15, 2016

SC Judgement on SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, December...

SC Indictment: Both Centre & States have Failed Dalits

The Supreme Court has directed the National Legal Services...

Shivaji would never want a memorial built at the cost of Kolis, says Mumbai’s fishing community

Photo Courtesy:  Rob Elliot/AFP The original inhabitants of the Konkan...

नोटबंदी के बाद अमित शाह से जुड़े सहकारी बैंक पर ईडी का छापा

 नोटबंदी के तीन दिन बाद ही अहमदाबाद डिस्ट्रिक्ट को-ऑपरेटिव...

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नोटबंदी ने बनारस साड़ी उद्योग की रीढ़ यानी उधारी...

What’s the Real Reason Behind the Modi Govt’s Panic on Further Deposits?

Is the Modi Govt's Panic on Legit Deposits of...

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