Forum for Discussion In this issue of Samyukta, we discuss an issue of contemporary relevance. The present age is characterized by the existence of career researchers and specialized research institutes/centres and a bourgeoning market for research. Given the fund-strapped,…
Abstract: Nehru’s policy for shifting agricultural base to heavy industry had its toll on economic backbone of the country. Though agricultural production rose four times in last sixty years, but its share in GDP reduced from 67% to 17%. Vision…
Abstract: Part I of this paper deals with the persistent ideology of extraction and unlimited growth, even in the face of international finance crisis and admitted global warming. This contradiction can ultimately be only pushed through by militarisation, as we…
Abstract: Bina Agarwal in A Field of One’s Own (1994) offers a pithy observation regarding the historical and contemporary importance of a specific form of group right in land, namely, usufruct right in village common lands and in forests and…
Abstract: Social exclusion refers to the multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.…
Abstract: As large capital brazenly acquires rights to land and mineral resources, resistance today focuses mainly on the marginalization and dispossession of people to land while very little is known about the privatization of the ocean commons, which is happening…
Abstract: This paper draws from first-hand experiences of the authors who volunteered for relief during the forced eviction of the residents of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) housing at Ejipura, Bangalore and analyses the effect of the evictions on health status…
Abstract: After the formation of the new state of Chhattisgarh, a female Community Health Worker (CHW) program was initiated. Launched after numerous consultations with health experts, this programme was innovative in many ways. The implementation on the ground however, was…
Abstract: Bound by the duty of survival, life is static in motion. Before retiring after 17 hours of plying from the hearth to the fields, life begins at 4 in the morning. Fetching water, cooking, sending kids to school is…
Abstract: Hand spinning has been the most common work done by women of almost all classes and castes in pre-colonial and even colonial-India. This tradition was gradually abandoned in favor of mill-produced yarn. However, women, especially from weaving castes, in…
Abstract: Social determinant of health (SDH) has become a fashionable term to refer to factors beyond the conventional biomedical and behavioural risk factor approach to health. This commentary examines critically the SDH discourse and practice in India, at what it…
Abstract: Despite evoking wider approbation in the field of women’s health and ranking highest in gender development index among the Indian states, beyond the relatively better conventional indicators, Kerala face a deteriorating status in women’s health in the 21st century.…
