This report comes to you at a time when questions around who can be family and whether adult citizens of this country have a say in formin

Breast-feeding is the most important form of infant nutrition. Unfortunately there has been a steady decline in breast-feeding practices in the post industrialized era. Breast milk substitutes, a major threat to breast-feeding, are indeed a big business.

In the absence of a basic questioning of women's status and role in society, birth control, abortions-and even maternal health care end up merely replacing an old set of traditions with new ones.

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations.