Search results (4)
  • Pratibha Sharma, Varun Chaudhary
    United Nations Population Fund
    2023

    Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

  • Lakshmi Lingam
    Understanding Women's Health Issues
    1998

    The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985); the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988); the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition, (Sen and Sengupta, 1983 and education (Mankekar, 1985); and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985

  • Susan Abraham
    The Lawyers
    1997

    As with Bhanwari Devi, gross injustice was committed in the Roop Kanwar sati case, when yet another session court in Rajasthan, acquitted all 32 of the accused in October last year.

  • Vina Mazumdar

    How does one analytically locate the social phenomenon manifested in India during the last few years since the advent of sex-selection technology in the mid- 70s?