Abstract: “What ever I am today I owe it to my self help group” is how Kamal Jaivant Shinde, popularly called Shinde tai, starts her introduction. Her feelings are not misplaced since for a woman, working as a labourer in…
Abstract: Several threads of thoughts were running through my mind, while travelling to my destination, a village called Kavthepiran in Sangli district. I was aware I had undertaken the task of capturing the complexity of a village in the limited…
Abstract: This story of Chinnapillai’s emergence as a leader of the poor and oppressed people in Tamil Nadu, India, is a remarkable story of the struggles of a poor agricultural worker to rise above poverty and at the same time…
Abstract: I write this story of the struggles of poor women, who seek to rise phoenix-like out of a life of abject poverty to carve better lives for themselves and their families, against the backdrop of the ongoing convulsions in…
Abstract: As a hard-working bank employee, a loving wife and mother, a dutiful daughter and daughter-in-law, Mangala Lohiya has been called to fulfil many roles in her life. Despite the difficulties of juggling her multiple roles, Mangala found time to…
Abstract: The following article highlights the key components to women’s SHGs activities and how they have raised themselves to become empowered women of the society. It briefly analyses the economic growth that has taken place due to their commitment to…
(The following article recounts the details of the journey I undertook in the Narmada District. This study concentrates on the role of microfinance among rural agro related women in Narmada district of Gujarat, India.) Keywords: women in agriculture, tribal community,…
Abstract: In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the implementation of WPC in the local government institutions of a Block Panchayat in Thrissur district during the Kerala Development Programme (KDP). The need for taking up an overall…
Abstract: Alice Walker’s perception of divinity in living and non-living beings underpins her ideology of eco-spirituality, which poses faith in the existence of a Universal Spirit that protects, sustains and nourishes all the animate and inanimate beings on earth. She…
Abstract: This article studies the employment of women in the textile industry of India. It examines the patterns of women’s employment in both the organised and unorganised sectors of this industry. The textile industry offers a valuable case study of…
Abstract: One of the major problems of recent times after globalisation is the alarming proportion of trafficking of women and children for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Trafficking is one of the worst forms of human rights violation. Adolescent…
Abstract: The paper is based largely on the field visits and interviews the author undertook during 1998-99 in 87 community forestry sites across five states of India (Gujarat, Karnataka. Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and the Uttar Pradesh hills) and two districts…
