Education is accorded a high priority in development policy in most countries, including India.

“Women hold up half the sky”, the Chinese saying goes. But we need to recognize that it is not an equal world for women, globally and in India.

Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.

The statement, tucked away in one of the many thick Agrawal Samaj magazines I had been perusing, made me smile.

Pregnancy outcome in any given community-the probability of a pregnancy terminating in a full-term, healthy live birth-is a powerful indicator of the health status of its women, and of the quality of health care available to them during pregnancy and birth.