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(Text of Freda Laski Memorial lecture delivered at Lucknow on the 16th November 2007)
The most striking feature of Indian polity during the last ten years, according to Martha Nussbaum, an American Political Scientist, is the near collapse of Indian democracy into religious terror and its eventual survival. The collapse was not sudden nor the recovery influenced by some immediate reasons, although there is a tendency, particularly among secular activists and ant-secular (…)

Seminar, March 2008
THE last couple of decades have witnessed intense resistance movements challenging large-scale displacement caused, among others, by mines, dams, national parks and sanctuaries, bomb and missile-testing ranges, industry and urban expansion. Since 1986, thousands of affected people have also united to struggle against the mammoth displacement being caused by construction of large dams in the Narmada valley. Adivasi women from the mountains, and women from (…)

– Published by Verso, 2000
– ISBN 1859848044, 9781859848043
– 464 pages

Radio Netherlands International
– 24 04 2006