Notwithstanding the impressive economic growth record in the recent past, India continues to have high rates of malnutrition, especially among women and children.
Son preference, or the privileging of sons over daughters in accordance to a patriarchal system, isa growing phenomenon in India.
IT was once thought that fertility below a level could not be achieved without changes in the material conditions of the people.
While talking about law and homosexuality, I am reminded of a story of a washerman and his donkey. The donkey refused to move with the heavy bundle of clothes on his back from his house to the pond. The washerman nailed a carrot to a stick, which was tied in front of the animal's mouth.