<i>Ash in the Belly</i> is a penetrating account of men, women and children living with hunger, illuminated by their courage in trying to cope and survive. It is simultaneously an investigation into the political economy of hunger, whereby one in every two children is malnourished, despite the creation of wealth and economic growth. Mander critically examines the increasing economic inequalities, the range of State failures, and public indifference, in general, and brings out how they have contributed to creating this grim situation. While doing so, he argues passionately for the passage of a universal right to food law, which guarentees food to all persons, not as state benevolence but as legal entitlement.<br><br>Compelling and insightful, this book reminds us that the right to food with dignity is indeed the right to life.

Ash in the Belly: India's Unfinished Battle Against Hunger

Mander, Harsh

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Global

This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results of a very large survey covering 560 villages in 11 states, which found that untouchability continues to be widely prevalent and is practiced in one form or another in almost 80 percent of the villages. While the evidence presented in this book suggests that the more blatant and extreme forms of untouchability appear to have declined, discrimination continues and is most prevalent in the religious and personal spheres. The authors show that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including in a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.

Untouchability in Rural India

Politics & Social Sciences

Baviskar, Amita

Shah, Ghanshyam

Thorat, Sukhadeo

Deshpande, Satish

Social Sciences

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Unequal Life Chances: Equity and the Demographic Transition in India

<p>India is passing through a phase where a major share of its population is in its prime and of working age. Many have spoken of the 'dividend' that we could reap from what is being called the 'youth bulge'. With the gaping inequalities in our society, the youth in this country encounter gross disparities in their life chances and in their opportunities to realise their potential. In this volume, we have attempted to look closely at India's demographic transition, specifically from the perspective of social and economic equity.Other than covering the important elements of the debate on India's demographic transition, the book attempts to makes a signal contribution in bringing together issues of social justice and economic inequality to bear on the mostly technocratic framing of the subject. Thus, it is an attempt to highlight that all decisions about economic 'development' or growth are politically infused and should be addressed as such. <div>&nbsp;</div></p>

Bhattacharya, Anirban

Mishra, Vivek

Singla, Astha

Siddiqi, Usman Jawed

Sociology

Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People India's Covid Tragedy

History

Speaking Tiger Books

Blood, Censored: When Kashmiris Become the 'Enemy'

Mohan, Dinesh

Singh, Navsharan

Philipose, Pamela

Bose, Tapan

Criminal Law

Yoda Press

Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat

Politics & Government

<p>This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, This is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society has become more sharply riven than ever. In Looking Away, Harsh Mander ranges wide to record and analyse the many different fault lines which crisscross Indian society today. There is increasing prosperity among the middle classes, but also a corresponding intolerance for the less fortunate. Poverty and homelessness are also on the rise-both in urban and rural settings- but not only has the state abandoned its responsibility to provide for those afflicted, the middle class, too, now avoids even the basic impulses of sharing. And with the sharp Rightward turn in politics, minority communities are under serious threat-their very status as citizens in question-as a belligerent, monolithic idea of the nation takes the place of an inclusive, tolerant one. However, as Harsh Mander points out, what most stains society today is the erosion in the imperative for sympathy, both at the state and individual levels, a crumbling that is principally at the base of the vast inequities which afflict India. Exhaustive in its scope, impassioned in its arguments, and rigorous in its scholarship, Looking Away is a sobering checklist of all the things we must collectively get right if India is to become the country that was promised, in equal measure, to all its citizens.</p>

Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

Locking Down the Poor

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