Nutrition, Bulletin no. 26 (February 1947). [The informational references are based on various bulletins of Food and Nutrition published by the Department (later Ministry) of Food, Government of India between 1945 and 1949.] Famine was no short-lived spectacle in modern South Asian history. Hunger is writ large across the twentieth century, its text of devastation … Continue reading A Tuition in Nutrition — Urvi Khaitan
Category: Feminism
Is Reproductive Choice a Myth for Women?—Krishna Priya
Image Courtesy: MSI Reproductive Choices The union cabinet has recently voted to raise the minimum age for girls to marry from 18 to 21, bringing them into line with boys. The new decision was made in response to the rising number of early pregnancies that endanger both mother and child's lives, as well as for … Continue reading Is Reproductive Choice a Myth for Women?—Krishna Priya
Mahadevi Verma’s ‘War and Woman’—Translated by Avishi Gupta
Mahadevi Verma (1907-1987) Image courtesy: Pinterest [Translator’s note: This essay was first published in 1933, and later included in Verma’s 1941 volume called Shrinkhala ki Kadiyan (Links in the Chain). War and Woman is perhaps one of the earliest extant texts in the intellectual tradition which later came to be termed as ecofeminism. Ecofeminism, if … Continue reading Mahadevi Verma’s ‘War and Woman’—Translated by Avishi Gupta
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