This edition of the newsletter carries an essay describing an interview with a senior citizen of Hyderabad conducted as part of a project to understand minority politics in the old city.
An Interview Experience with a Senior Citizen
-M.A. Moid
[A few words about my project: I will be looking at the nature of Muslim politics and peoples responses to it in the old city of Hyderabad and the role of communists in the broad Muslim context. I will be studying this aspect through the first general elections in which some communists won seats from the old city. My main question was why did people in Hyderabad vote for communists, and what does it say about the Muslim politics and the common people? I need to meet the people who were active in the decade of 1950, in other words I have to meet many senior citizens. In this context I was concerned about learning the right things through my interactions with them.]
When I started my interviews in relation to my project, I was worried since the people I would interact would mostly be the elderly. I wondered how much of what they say will be accurate. What is the best way to make them open up and speak about the difficult aspects of their life and experiences? How to make them examine their own memories and thoughts? How to understand their learning from those experiences? What is the relevance of their thoughts and experiences in today’s socio-political context? How to record the interview without information loss and without offending their sensibilities and expectations? What information would be relevant and what would have to be ignored? And lastly how was I to analyze the collected information?
These were the concerns I had before and during the interviews. My experiences show that talking to elderly people is a rewarding experience in itself if one is not having the time constraints and has the ability to listen patiently. Some elderly personalities are fond of talking and enjoy repeating their memories. Talking to such people is not a difficult experience but some people I found are not so comfortable in speaking about their past. Having good or bad memories have nothing to do with this condition. Such people require a different approach. One of my respondents was of this type. My interview experience with him was interesting and a learning experience for myself.
He was my friend’s father, in his late seventies. When my friend introduced me he bluntly asked what I wanted to know from him. This must have been a natural response but I felt odd about this sudden and blunt curiosity. I realized that in such a situation with such people it is necessary to introduce the project or purpose, and request for their response on particular topics by giving them examples. For instance you can say that in a particular book such and such a person is described in such a way. Once they know that other people have similar or more extreme opinions they feel comfortable and confident about their own thoughts. This acts as a motivator and they slowly open up.
When my friend’s father asked me what I want to know, I told him I needed some information about four points. Though this was not correct I had to quickly say something and in an obedient manner. I had to keep in mind that he is my friend’s father and a person of olden days with old values and sensibilities. I cannot act confidently and had to show a sufficiently humble and obedient attitude. He gave answers to three points in short sentences and about the fourth he said he did not know. This ended in five minutes. He then asked again, what else I want. I said I got answers to all my questions and kept aside my notepad pretending that the interview is over and I thanked him for the answers. But I wanted to know more from him and wanted him to talk. I wanted desperately that the conversation should continue and I was thinking about a topic, which can make him more comfortable with my project and me. I had a doubt that his bluntness might be because he could not become comfortable with me, or the topic. My doubt became stronger since my friend already told me that his father is a talkative person. I was thinking of how to make him speak first of all.
I thought, since he is a retired person he may like to talk about the good and bad days of his service. I felt happy when I realized that he was willing to talk about his service days and immediately switched to the earthquake in Latoor occurred a few years ago. He had provided government relief to the people. He started talking about those days. He spoke about it for more than an hour. In between I was raising questions, not related to my topic but about the earthquake in Latoor. This excited him and prolonged the conversation.
This changed situation made me hopeful that he could talk about my questions. Using this opportunity I asked the question about a period earlier than the earthquake. My intention was to take him slowly to the decade of 50s and make him stay there since studying this particular decade was my project. This approached worked and my questions created a chain reaction. I asked him where he was posted at the time of first election and what did he do in those times? Were the elections in those days same as today’s?
These questions or the curiosity in his experiences excited him so much that the conversation went on for more than four hours. Not only this when I asked for a second meeting he readily agreed and asked me to come after couple of days. The second sitting also lasted for nearly three hours despite his slight illness. In this sitting the talk was very much focused and I got most of the information relevant for my purpose. I felt that the gap of few days made him recall and ponder on his memories and be more accurate.
I learnt important lessons from this experience and began using it in other interviews. I had to modify my techniques according to the situation and persons and invent new ones. For example some people become more focused and accurate in the second sitting and others found to be more accurate in the first rather than the second.
Personally, interviewing the elderly I realize that the information and explanation they provide enriches the understanding enormously. Having seen and experienced life in various forms makes them mature and wise. It is not just the information they provide but also the wisdom about life. I felt that to interact with elderly personalities is an occasion of interaction with the wisdom.
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New Arrivals in English under different Subject Headings
Education
Education for Rural Development: towards new policy responses/ Ed b David Atchoarena, Lavinia Gasperini. – Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2006.
Dalit Studies/ Caste/ Minorities
Journey Towards Dalit Dignity/ Katti Padmarao. – Bombay: The All India Telugu Bahujan Welfare Society, 1999.
Law/Justice/ Human Rights
HIV Law, Ethics and Human Rights: Texts and materials/ Edited by D.C.Jayasuriya. – New Delhi: UNDP Regional Project on HIV and Development, 1995.
Land Struggles in Brazil/ Bojja Tarakam. – Secunderabad: Sakshi human Rights Watch, 2004.
Health/ Medicine
Health and Society in Bengal: a selection from late 19th-century Bengali Periodicals/ Edited by Pradip Kumar Bose. – New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006.
Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies/ Edited by Sarah Hodges. – New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006.
A lay Person’s Guide to Medicines: What is in them and what is behind them. – Vadodara: Low Cost Standard Therapeutics (LOCOST), 2006.
Population Policy and Reproductive Health: Proceedings of the Seminar on “Policy Direction and Strategy of Action in Population and Reproductive Health in India”/ Edited by K. Srinivasan. – New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1996.
Philosophy
Buddhist Philosophy/ katti Padmarao. – Guntur: Lokayata Prachuranalu, 2007.
Politics/Social Sciences
Land, Community and Governance/ Edited by Pankaj Ballabh. – New Delhi: National Education for India, 2004.
The Insurrection of Little Selves: the crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India/ Aditya Nigam. – New Delhi: OUP, 2006.
Political Theory: four chapters on the concept of Sovereignty/ Carl Schmitt; Translated by George Schwab; Foreword by Tracy B. Strong. – Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Negotiating Peace: peace talks between Government of Andhra Pradesh and naxalite Parties. – Hyderabad: Committee of Concerned Citizens, 2006.
Fiction
How I Survived Being a Girl/ Wendelin Van Draanen. – New York: Scholastic INC, 1998.
Masculinity
Reframing Masculinities/ Edited by Radhika Chopra. – New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.
Biography/ Autobiography
The Last Brahmin: Life and reflections of a modern-day Sanskrit Pandit/ Rani Siva Sankara Sarma; Translated from the Telugu by D.Venkat Rao. – Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2007.
Poverty
Can anyone Hear Us?: Voices of the Poor/ Deepa Narayan… et al. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Anthology of Short Stories
Higher Ground: stories inspired by the courage and hope of children who survived the 2004 tsunami disaster/ Edited by Anuj Goyal. – United Kingdom: Chrysalis Children’s Books, 2005.
Literature
Step Across this Line: collected Non-fiction 1992.2002/ Salman Rushdie. – London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Gender Studies/ Feminism
The Improvised Woman: Single women reinventing single life/ Marcelle Clements. – New York: W.W. Norton& Company, 1998.
Media /Film Studies
Exploring Media Discourse/ Myra Macdonald. – London: Arnold, 2003.
Mixed media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics/ Simone Murray. – London: Pluto Press, 2004.
Popular Music
Brazilian popular music & Globalization/ Edited by Charles A. Perrone & Christopher Dunn. – New York: Routledge, 2002.
Sexuality
A Return to Modesty: discover the lost virtue/ Wendy Shalit. – New York: Touchstone, 1999.
New Arrivals in Telugu under different Subject Headings
Navalalu
Chandaludu (Chandala thrisanku)/ Karanam Balasubrahmanyam Pillai. - Hyderabad: [s.n], 2007.
Tharigonda Vengamaamba/ Mukthevi Bharathi. -Vijayawada: Emesco, 2006.
Jeevana Samaram/ M.V.Thirupathayya. -Warangal: M.V.Publications, 2007.
Kollaaye gattithenemi: Andhra Pradesh saahithya Academy award pondina navala/
Maheedhara RamaMohanrao. -3rd ed.-Vijayawada: Navodaya publishers, 2007.
Kathalu
Chandrahaasam: anuraaga kathalu/ Satish Chandar. - Hyderabad: Smile and Smile prachurana, 2006.
Pathanjali saasthry kathalu/ Thallavajjala Pathanjali Saasthry. -1st ed.-[s.l.]: [s.n.], 2006.
Gaja eetharaalu/ Gorusu Jagadeeshwar reddy. -Vijaya nagaram: N.K.Publications, 2007.
Molakala Punnami/ Vempalle Gangadhar. - [s.l.]: Ushassu Prachuranalu, 2006.
Khaadar ledu/ Mahammad Khadeer babu. - Hyderabad: Perspectives, 2001.
Kinda nela undi/ Mahammad Khadeer babu. -Hyderabad: Choopu Prachurana, 2005.
Telugu kathaki jeje! / Compiled by Saakam Nagaraja. - Tirupathi: Abhinava prachuranalu, 2007.
Katha 2006/ ed.by Vasireddy Naveen & Papineni Sivasankar. -Secunderabad: KathaSaahithi, 2007.
Sthreela kathalu- 4: 1901-1980/ Ed. By K.Lakshmi Narayana. - Anantapuram: Rama publications, 2007.
Sthreela kathalu- 5: 1901-1980/ Ed. By K.Lakshmi Narayana. - Anantapuram: Rama publications, 2007.
2006 Telangana katha: 12 Telangana Utthama kathalu/ed.by Karra Yellareddy. -Hyderabad: Telangana Saahithi, 2007.
Kavithvam/ padyaalu
Sadaa Saddam: saamraajyavaada vyathireka Yuddha kavithvam/ ed.by Jooluru GowriSankar. - Kodada: Spruha saahithee samstha, 2007.
Sivakarnaamrutham (‘Siva thaandava’ sahitham)/ Puttaparthi Narayanaachaarya. -[s.l.]:[s.n.], 2006.
Lekhalu
Himoha sadanam nunchi Prematho…. Vaddera Chandeedas/ Vaddera Chandeedas. - Vijayawada: Emesco, 2007.
Priyamaina ammaa naannaa…! : Pillala lekhalu. -Kunchana palli: Pallebadi pillalu, 2006.
Telangana Raashtro dyamam
Telangaana raashtrodyamaalu: thyaagaalu, mosaalu, nammaka drohaala sankshiptha charithra/ Aadiraaju Venkateswar rao. - Hyderabad: [s.n.],
Chalana chithra pramukhulu
Mahanati Saavithri/ Compiled by H.Rameshbabu. - NagarKurnool: Chinni Publications, 2007.
Aathma katha
Asthaminchani Ravi: Oka udyama veerudi oopiri yaathra/ Khadar Mohiuddeen. -Venkataapuram: Narayanamma Prachuranalu, 2007.
Contents of Journals
ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
VOL.13 NO.1 2007
Malavika KARLEKAR
Autobiography as social Commentary: A Reading of Nistarini Debi’s Sekeley Katha
Su-lin YU
Beyond the Imaginary Relationship between Western Feminists and Third-World Women
Catherine W. NG & Evelyn G. H. NG
Entrepreneurship and Leadership: case Studies of Female Micro-business Owners in Hong Kong
BOOK REVIEW
CHANG Pilwha
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan, Inoue Miyako, Berkeley, LA and London: University of California press, 2006
Krassimira DASKALOVA
Visualizing Indian Women: 1875-1947,Malavika karlekar (ed), Oxford University Press, 2006.
THE BOOK REVIEW
VOLUME XXXI NUMBER 5 MAY 2007
R. Mahalakshmi Language and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras by Thomas R. Trautmann
Mrinalini Writing Resistance: A Comparative Study of the
Sebastian Selected Novels by Women Writers by Usha Bande
Sumi Krishna Playing With Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India by Sangtin Writers: Anupamlata, Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, Shashi Vaish, Shashikala
Nandini Chandra Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
Sudhanya Dasgupta Since1947: Partition Narratives Among Punjabi
Mukherjee Migrants of Delhi by Ravinder Kaur; Perspectives of the Partition Fiction in the Indian Subcontinent edited by Tejinder Kaur, Kulbhushan Kaushal, N. K Neb
Rakshanda Jalil A Critical Survey of the Development of the Urdu Novel and Short Story by Shaista Akhtar Bano Suhrawardy
Gillian Wright Wonder Tales of South Asia translated from Hindi, Urdu, Nepali and Persian by Simon Digby; Shah Abdul Latif: Seeking the Beloved translated by Anju Makhija & Hari Dilgir
Shobhana No Space for Further Burials: A Novel by Feryal Ali Gauhar
Bhattacharji
Parsa Remembering Mother by Thi Jaa. Translated from the Tamil by Malati Mathur
VenkateshwarRao jr
Madhavi Apte Dots and Lines by Jayant Kaikini; If: A collection of Short Stories by Neeru Nanda; The Face and Other Stories by Ram Kumar
J. Bhagyalakshmi Books-in-brief
Amiya P.Sen The Oxford India Hinduism Reader edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Heinrich von Steitecron
Gurpreet K. Maini Life and work of Guru Arjan by Pashaura Singh
Sonika Gupta Essays in Frontier History: India, China, and the Disputed Border by Parshotam Mehra
Kirpal Dhillon Representing Rebellion: Visual Aspects of Counter-Insurgency in Colonial India by Daniel J. Rycroft
Rochelle Pinto Tradition and Modernity in Eighteenth Century Goa (1750-1800) by Maria de Jesus dos Martires Lopes
Shobhit Mahajan Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life By Kaushik Sundar Rajan
A.G. Krishna A Social History of Indian Architecture by V.S. Parmar
Menon
Shukla Sawant The Art of Adimoolam by Gayatri Sinha
Kavita Singh Performers and Their Arts: Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India edited by Simon Charsley& Laxmi Narayan Kadekar; The Epic of Pabuji by John D Smith
Indira Rajaraman The World Economy by Angus Maddison
Praveen Jha Labour Bondage in west India: From Past to Present By Jan Breman
Nimal Sanderatne Development Under Stress: Sri Lankan Economy in Transition by Saman Kelegama
Preeti Gill The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson; Jammy Dodgers Go Underground by Bowering Sivers; Rat Heaven by Jeanne Wills; Princess Posy Knight-in-Training by Alex Gutteridge; Parentswap by Terence Blacker; Masala Chosen by Debjani Chatterjee; The Works 4 by Pie Corbett and Gaby Morgan
HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN
MAY 2007 VOL 20 NO 5
Commentary
If the war moves north
Khaki politics in Dhaka
Constituent Assembly, postponed
‘Rawan’
Southasian briefs
Cover feature
Between tribe and country Massoud Ansari
Islamabad V Balochistan Moeed Yusuf
Interview: Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal
A death foretold Munizae Jahangir
Analysis
The Dhaka regime’s messy surgery Incognito
Getting connected at the SAARC Summit Sukumar Muralidharan
The ritual of the ballot Samrat Sinha
A year of loktantra Liz Philipson
India and the upcoming Druk democracy Wasbir Hussain
Report
A thriving industry of Tamil extortion D ilrukshi Handunnetti
The phantom disappearances of Manipur Yumnam Rupachandra
Essays
Affair with the back Sumana Roy
Reflections
17 march and the multiverse of loyalty Garga Chatterjee
Time and a place
A common heritage of pain Nivedita Singh
Opinion
Amnesty’s sticky wicket Michael Roberts
Southasiansphere: C K lal
The new USSR
Photo feature
Assam’s eternally displaced P k Das, Kazu Ahmed
Mediafile
Review
Guilty until proven innocent C K Lal
The imagined Bihar Hartosh Singh Bal
On the way up
Kabul as is and was
HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN
JUNE 2007 VOL 20 NO 6
Commentary
Karachi’s and Pakistan’s tragedy
Good for party, bad for country
Mixed signals on a stable neighbourhood
‘Ranjha II’
Southasian briefs
Cover feature
The anger of Bangladesh’s non-elite Afsan Chowdhury
Inflation up, government down Amer Ahmed
Testing time for Dhaka’s media Asif Saleh
Under the emergency: seven takes
Analysis
King Mayawati Pratap Somvanshi
The vaan puligal takes off DBS Jeyaraj
A soundtrack for a foreign existence Rahul Giri
Report
12 May: the bloodshed and watershed Q is a Daudpota
Special report
Repatriation or resettlement Himal Dixit
Marking time in Kashmir’s beautiful prison Riyaz Masroor
Essay
Dreaming without subtitles Sumana Roy
Time and a place
Monsoon memories Somnath Mukherji
Sighting
An ‘agent’ of Kashmir: Hashim Qureshi Aditi Bhaduri
Interview
Speaking a solution: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Riyaz Masroor
Opinion
Southasian mea culpa Jawed Naqvi
Southasiasphere: C K Lal
Remember the farmer
Photo feature
Never again: a people against war Kunda Dixit
Mediafile
Review
India is flat Vijay Prashad
Parsing the Indian ‘identity’ Aditya Adhikari
Afghanistan anodyne Aunohita Mojumdar
On the way up
Atoll before the storm
THE MOVEMENT OF INDIA
VOL.2 ISSUE 1 Jan-Feb 2007
Whose Urban Bonanza? Medha Patkar
Lessons from Quiritiba Rajendra Ravi
Action 2007 MOI Correspondent
JNNURM- Politics of Globalisation Lalit Batra
Workers in the Urban Informal Sector Sharit Bhowmik
Multilateral Funding Agencies Gurajada Budhya
The ‘Corporate’ State Simpreet Singh
I am a Domestic Worker Sr.Celia
Stop Walmart! Reena Desai
Invisible Struggle to Survive Sudipta Moitra
Urban Renewal in the USA Mike Levien
Beyond the Lake City Pradeep Singh
Urban Transport in India Geetam Tiwari
Hyderabad: A Happening City Jeevan Kumar & Umesh Verma
Kundankulam Nuclear Plant Gabriele Deitrich
Tokenism and Empowerment Rubina Jabbar
Beautification of Chennai Geeta Ramakrishnan
SEMINAR: THE MONTHLY SYMPOSIUM
NO.573 MAY 2007
ENVISIONING ASIA: a symposium on changing relationships between India, China and Japan
Symposium participants
The problem Posed by Brij Tankha
Genealogies of Asia Brij Tankha
The Asian dimension Kishen S.Rana
Creating ‘one’ Asia Sun ge
China and Japan in an Asian perspective Kamal Sheel
India and china: colonial encounters Madhavi Thampi
Hindi-chini bhai-bhai Subarno Chattarji
Material realities and cultural lags Sukumar Muralidharan
BOOKS
Reviewed by Sudhir Chandra, Sumanta Banerjee,
Sudheendra Kulkarni, Jyotirmaya Sharma,
Bharat Karnad and Harsh Sethi
COMMENT
State and Identity C P Bhambhri
The Absence of Accountability Anita Inder Singh
A Mortal Blow to Panchayat Raj Nandana Reddy and Damodar Acharya
SEMINAR: THE MONTHLY SYMPOSIUM
No.574 June 2007
CHILDREN FIRST: a symposium on planning for India’s children
Symposium participants
The problem Posed by Ramya Subramaniam
Why are children neglected A.K. Shiva Kumar
Ensuring child protection Enakshi Ganguly Thukral and Razia Ismail Abbasi
Reaching the excluded Amitabh Behar, Subrat Das and Debdulal Thakur
Reorienting elementary education R. Govinda
Combating the dual nutrition burden in children Prema Ramachandran
HIV infected and affected Rajeev Sadanandan
Unraveling the union budget Subrat Das and Debdulal Thakur
An unfulfilled dream Adarsh Sharma
Outlays and outcomes Naresh C.Saxena
INTERVIEW
Renuka chowdhury by Neeraj Chowdhury
Shantha Sinha by Mannika Chopra
COMMENT
Child Abuse-the Hidden Truth Shireen Vakil Miller
Killing the default – Nithari Annie Namala
Needed, My Birth Certificate Bernadette Rai
Little Eyes and a Big Screen Samina Mishra
SOCIAL SCIENTIST
VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1-2 JANUARY-FEBRAURY 2007
The State Under Neo-Liberalism Prabhat Patnaik
Harassing Hussain: uses and Abuses of the Law of Hate Speech Rajeev Dhavan
Progress of “Reform” and the Retrogression of Agriculture C.P. Chandrasekhar
NOTE: Gayatri Spivak’s Critique of Marxist Value(s) Shad Naved
Book Reviews
SOCIAL SCIENTIST
Volume 35 NUMBER 3-4 MARCH-APRIL 2007
Ethically Speaking, What Should be the Meaning of Separation for Secularism in India Javeed Alam
Recent employment trends in India and China: An unfortunate convergence? C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
The Higher Education in India and the Challenge of Globalisation Suranjan Das
The Noose, the Hegemon and the Apostate Body: Spectacular Transformations of the Scaffold Scene Ahmed Nadeem Anwar
SIGNS
Volume 32 Number 4 Summer 2007
War and Terror I: Raced-Gendered Logics and Effects in Conflict Zones
Special Issue Editors: Mary Hawkesworth and Karen Alexander
Meg Samuelson
The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerilla: (De) Militarization, Sexual Violence, and Redomestication in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story
Aaronette M. White
All the Men Are Fighting for Freedom, All the Women Are Mourning Their Men, but Some of Us Carried Guns: A Raced-Gendered Analysis of Fanon’s Psychological Perspectives on War
Myriam Denov and Christine Gervais
Negotiating (In) Security: Agency, resistance, and Resourcefulness among Girls Formerly Associated with Sierra Leon’s revolutionary United Front
Carrie Hamilton
Political Violence and Body Language in Life Stories of Women ETA Activists
Dorit Naaman
Brides of Palestine/ Angels of Death: Media, Gender, and Performance in the Case of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers
Claudia Brunner
Occidentalism Meets the Female Suicide Bomber: A Critical
Reflection on Recent Terrorism Debates; A Review Essay
Hagar Kotef and Merav Amir
(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the
Repercussions of Intervention
Kara Dixon Vyic
“I’m afraid we’re going to have to just change our ways”: marriage, Motherhood, and pregnancy in the Army nurse Corps during the Vietnam War
Farhat Haq
Militarism and Motherhood: The Women of the Lashkar-I-Tayyabia in Pakistan
Liz Philipose
The Politics of pain and the Uses of Torture
Journal of Social Policy
Volume 35 Part 1 January 2006
Social policy Digest Online
Fran Bennett with Ken Jones
Articles
Nicoli Natrass
Trading off income and Health?: AIDS and the
Disability Grant in South Africa
Hillary Graham and Elizabeth McDermott
Qualitative research and the Evidence-Base of Policy: Insights from Studies of Teenage Mothers in the UK
Jane Lewis
Perceptions of Risk in Intimate Relationships: The Implications for Social Provision
Helen Wilson and Annette Huntingdon
Deviant (M)others: The Construction of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Discourse
Kirk Mann
Three Steps to Heaven? Tensions in the Management of Welfare: Retirement Pensions and Active Consumers
Colin Knox and Paul Carmichael
Improving Public Services: Public Administration Reform in Northern Ireland
Graham Smith
A Most Enduring Problem: Police Complaints Reform in England and Wales
Bill Jordan
Public Services and the Service Economy: Individualism and the Choice Agenda
Journal of Social Policy
Volume 35 Part 2 April 2006
Social Policy Digest Online
Frann Bennet with Ken Jones
Articles
Karen Rowlingson
‘Living Poor to Die Rich? Or Spending the Kids’ Inheritance? Attitudes to Assets and inheritance in Later Life
Janet Newman and Elizabeth Vidler
Discriminating Customers, Responsible Patients, Empowered Users: Consumerism and the Modernisation of Health Care
Cathy Murray
State Intervention and Vulnerable Children: Implementation Revisited
Linda Wong and Tang Jun
Non-State Care Homes for Older People as Third Sector Organisations in China’s Third Sector Organizations in China’s Transitional Welfare Economy
Hong Kyung Zoon and Song Ho Keun
Continuity and Change in the Korean Welfare Regime
Deborah Baker and Stephen Barrow
Proxy Models of Legal Need: Can They Contribute to Equity of Access to Justice?
John Offer
‘Virtue’, ‘Citizen Character’ and ‘Social Environment’: Social Theory and Agency in Social Policy since 1830
Arthur Affleck and Mary Mellor
Community Development Finance: A Neo-Market Solution to Social Exclusion?
Book Reviews
Journal of Social Policy
Volume 35 Part 3 July 2006
Social Policy Digest Online
Fran Bennet with Ken Jones
Articles
Karen Cardiner and Jane Millar
How Low-Paid Employees Avoid Poverty: An Analysis by Family Type and Household Structure
Bjorn Hallerod
Sour Grapes: Relative Deprivation, Adaptive Preferences and the Measurement of Poverty
Lucinda Platt
Social Insecurity: Children and Benefit Dynamics
John Rigg and Tom Sefton
Income Dynamics and the Life Cycle
Alan Walker
Extending Quality Life: Policy Prescriptions from the Growing Older Programme
Sarah Vickerstaff
‘I’d rather keep running to the end and then jump off the cliff’. Retirement Decisions: Who Decides?
Kevin Fransworth and Chris Holden
The Business-Social Policy Nexus: Corporate Power and Corporate Inputs into Social Policy
Lavinia Bifulco and Tommaso Vitale
Contacting for Welfare Services in Italy
Book Reviews
Journal of Social Policy
Volume 35 Part 4 October 2006
Social Policy Digest Online
Fran Bennet with Ken Jones
Articles
Carol proper Deborah Wilson and Simon Burgess
Extending Choice in English Health Care: The Implications of the Economic Evidence
Peter Saunders and Laura Adelman
Income Poverty, Deprivation and Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Australia and Britain
Richard Phillips, Jefferey Hendersen, Laszlo Andor and David Hulme
Usurping Social Policy: Neoliberalism and Economic Governance in Hungary
Clara Sabbagh and Pieter Vanhuysse
Exploring Attitudes Towards the Welfare State Students’ views in Eight Democracies
Trine P. Larsen, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Johannes Kananen
New Labour’s Policy Style: A Mix of Policy Approaches
Kathleen Kiernan
Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Ian Dey
Wearing Out the Work Ethic: Population Ageing, Fertility and Work-life Balance
Paul Hoggett, Phoebe Beedell, Luis Jimenez, Marj Mayo and Chris Miller
Identity, Life History and Commitment to Welfare
Book Reviews
New arrivals in Reports/ Policy Documents/ Directories etc..
Health status of Women in Gujarat/ N.Rajaram…et al. – Vadodara: Women’s Health Training Research and Advocacy Centre, 1999.
National Health Policy. – New Delhi: Department of Health, 2002.
Knowledge and Research Programme on Improving Efficiency of Pro-poor Public Services. – New Delhi: One World South Asia, 2005.
Khoj: A search for Innovations and Sustainability in Community Health and Development: An Initiative/ Shefali Mishra and Subir Ghosh. – New Delhi: Voluntary Health Association of India, 2001.
Factors Affecting Sex-Selective Abortion in India and 17 Major States/ Robert D. Retherford and T.K. Roy. – Mumbai: International Institute for Population Sciences, 2003.
Productivity and Costs for Family Planning Service Delivery in Bangladesh: the Government Program: Technical Report. – Bangladesh: Associations for Community and Population Research, 1996.
Cholera: Investigations & Control of Outbreaks. – Delhi: National Institute of Communicable Diseases, 2001.
India 1998-99 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2): Key Findings. – Mumbai: International Institute for Population Sciences, 1999.
Does Community Access Affect the Use of Health and Family Welfare Services in Rural India?/ N.P. Das, Vinod K.Mishra, and P.K. Saha. – Mumbai: International Institute for Population Sciences, 2001.
Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Men, Caring and Fatherhood: Engaging Men as Partners in Healthier Families. – Kathmandu: Save the Children Sweden, 2006.
Impoverishing the Poor: Pharmaceuticals and Drug Pricing in India. – Vadodara: LOCOST/ JSS, 2004.
Is This Our City?: Mapping Safety for Women in Delhi. – New Delhi: Jagori.
Investing in Children Securing Our Future: A South Asia Report. – Kathmandu: UNICEF, 2004.
Articles/Stories/poems/book reviews published by Anveshi members
J. Subadra/ Poem titled: “Kongu Naa Boccha Meeda Kaavalunde Bonta Peggadu”; Andhra Jyoti, 7th May 2007.
S. Jaya/ Book review: “Kavtvamayee Jeevatamayee…Aame”; Bhumika, May 2007.
Meenakshi Mukherjee/ Review ‘A Magnificent Obsession’ of “In the Tracks of the Mahatma: the making of a documentary by A.K.Chettiar”; Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XLII, No.22 June 2007.