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Book ExtractThere’s Seven For You, Three For Me
My book There’s Seven For You, Three For Me–Chronicles of a Taxman was launched on November 27, 2019. I am a former Commissioner...
Book ExtractThe Makings of Dalit Political Power
AMBEDKAR hailed from a family of military men. His father Ramji Sakpal was a Subedar Major in the British Indian Army. Ambedkar’s maternal...
Book ExtractThe Future of China-India Relations
Dr Liu Zongyi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Strategic Studies, Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies and Shanghai Institutes for International...
Book ExtractThe Pied Piper of BJP
A senior Congress leader, also an ex-chief minister, had once described India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as the BJP’s ‘Pied Piper’. The legend...
Book ExtractSparking dialogue on rural distress
A Rural Manifesto sparks a national conversation on rural distress, highlighting the potential solutions to putting the village economy on an even keel,...
Book ExtractMisuse of reproductive technologies The making of the PCPNDT act
It was in 1975 with the Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India (CSWI), ‘Towards Equality,’ that the issue...
Book ExtractHow Babri Masjid fell, brick by brick
THE atmosphere in Lucknow was surcharged with the developments relating to the Babri Masjid. Both the Central Government and the State Government had...
Book ExtractCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS Addressing gender discrimination by enhancing women’s worth
THE different perceptions of sex-selective abortion as gender discrimination have led to strategies for intervention, social change, and reform initiated by the state,...
Book ExtractThe case of the missing girl child
ACKNOWLEDGING sex-selective abortion as gender discrimination and its countering through various interventions and initiatives have become common in policy articulation and execution pertaining...
Book ExtractThe Cat is Out of the Bag
IN May 2007, upon the resignation of Dayanidhi Maran, I was asked by my party leadership to take charge of the Ministry of...
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