In an attempt to respond to the needs of the country's poor, the Indian government launched an ambitious workfare scheme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in 2005, which guaranteed hundred days of employment in unskilled manual labour at a minimum wage to every rural household...

What distinguishes this book from the current literature is its comprehensive analysis of malnutrition, meticulous exploration of dietary transition, poverty nutrition traps, links between multiple anthropometric failures among children and their vulnerability to infectious diseases, abysmal...

This book seeks to answer the question 'What influences the choices and decisions that Indian Supreme Court judges make?'. In different contexts and cases contradictory images remain in circulation; judges are variously described as passive, pro-active, impartial, biased, pro-citizen,...