In the footsteps of Ayyankali
by P. Mary Kumari (Madiga)
Translated from Telugu original by D. Vasanta
Kerala, the state with the highest literacy rate is also the land of several social reformers who led many social movements and brough about significant changes in that society. Ayyankali (1863‐1941) was one of them. He was the contemporary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Dayananda Saraswathi, and Vivekananda. While we have access to histories of some of these social reformers, Ayyankali’s ideas and actions remained hidden from mainstream history. However, just as one cannot hide the luminescence generated by fireflies, no one can really bury the struggles waged by an untouchable. The more one tries to hide it, the more luminescent it becomes. In this sense, Ayyankali is different from the other social reformers that we have heard of. As early as 1905, he established Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham an organization through which he sought social justice and human rights for his pople. Most social reformers who participate in peoples’ movements are usually literate, but not Ayyankali. He was not only illiterate but also belonged to the untouchable caste. The others who waged struggled for obtaining access to education for the untouchables in his times were: Jotiba Phule, Savithri Bai, Narayan Guru, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Even these leaders educated themselves before fighting for educational rights for others. Ayyankali, much before them, specifically, towards the end of 19th century and early 20th century, waged a ‘war’ in Kerala for educational opportunities for all.
Ayyankali fought against the practice of untouchability and demanded self‐respect particularly on behalf of women. He presided over peoples’ courts; ran a magazine in support of his organization (Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham); argued for provision for temple entry by people of his community…generally opposed all kinds of Hindu Brahminical values. He spilt his own blood to pave way for the untouchables to have the right to travel on the main roads and highways.
Ayyankali was one of seven children born on August 28, 1863 to a couple belonging to an untouchable caste (Puliyan) in a village called Venganur, part of the then Trivandrum presidency. Born long before all the Bahujan leaders of this country Ayyankali created a social revolution despite his lack of literacy ad low social status.
As a mark of respect to this great leader of the downtrodden, the Govt. of Kerala ensured that Ayyankali’s mammoth stone statue was installed in the city of Trivandrum by the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. I think it is essential for those who are involved and / or interested in social movements to study Ayyankali’s history. He could not receive any education because during his childhood, untouchables were not allowed to enter schools. However, he was determined to see that education becomes available to people of future generations in his community and to achieve thatgoal, he worked hard all his life.
In the year 1904 when Government schools denied admission to untouchables, he sold his own plot of land (on which he was to build a house) and established a school in its place. Children used sand to write on, for there were no blackboards; their fingers became pencils. But the upper castes couldn’t bear all this. They destroyed Ayyankali’s school. No one came forward to work as a teacher in that school even though Ayyankali was prepared to pay Rs. 9/‐ as salary. At last, Parameshwaran Pillai, considered a mental patient among the upper castes came forward to work, but the Brahmins and his fellow men threatened to kill him. Ayyankali had to appoint a bodyguard to protect Pillai. He himself watched over Pillai and ensured that classes went on without any disruption. Eventually, he managed to open up schools in other villages and continue his struggle for education.
Even before the birth of the Communist Party in our country, in the year 1907, Ayyankali organized the working class people. He held the very first strike by daily‐wage labourers and created history. When the Travencore Maharaja refused permission for that meeting, he held it in the backwaters of Kerala using dinghies that were tied together to form a makeshift platform. This was also the time when untouchable women were prohibited from covering the top portion of their bodies. As part of the self‐respect movement, he brought together thousands of women labourers for a meeting and incited them to break the stone bead chains covering their reasts and demand the right to wear blouses in par with the custom followed only by the upper caste women at that time. He successfully led many such self‐respect movements through Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham.
He withstood all the punishments (both physical and mental) meted out to him by the Hindu upper castes for his involvement in these social movements. The result is, more equitable educational opportunities that we are witnessing today. During the freedom movement, Mahatma Gandhi met Ayyankali in Venganur village and reportedly commended him by saying: “We are contemporaries in age. I am fighting for freedom and so are you.” Little later when Ayyankali was ill, Gandhi went to see him and asked him what he wished (to have achieved) the most in his life. Ayyankali responded by saying “Please extend support to Ambedkar who, like you is fighting for the welfare of the untouchables.” Gandhi asked him what else he wanted. Ayyankali said that he would like educational opportunities for people of his community and that before he dies, he would like to see at least 12 graduates. Responding to his wish, the
Govt. of Tranvencore built hostels for Harijan students. All the leading politicians including the heads of the princely states unanimously decided to make him a member of the legislaive assembly.
We must publicize the struggles for educational rights undertaken by Ayyankali on behalf of the untouchables. The children of the untouchables should learn about Ayyankali and the methods he used in those struggles. His work should not remain outside history or even be confined to some minor histories. The lessons from that history must inspire our current struggles for equality and quality education for all. Only through education can one become leaders.
Even today we have scores of children who are unable to go to school; who are forced to become child labourers. We need to demand quality education to everyone irrespective of the class and caste. The limited education in Telugu medium is only making the youth from marginalized sections to become labourers or people fit oly to carry party flags during political meetings. Modern schools and English medium education is still an unattainable dream for the untouchables. Thanks to the struggles organized by Dalit Bahujan leaders and writers, the Government has only recently introduced English medium in 6500 Government schools from 6th class to Intermediate level in .P. Let us welcome that move. In fact, we need to demand for introduction of English right from 1st standard in government schools.
New arrivals in English under different subject headings
Dalit Studies-Caste-Minorities
Dalit women speakout: violence against dalit women in India/ Aloysius S.J. Irudayam. – New Delhi: NCDHR, 2006.
The scheduled castes in India/ Sarajit Kumar Chatterjee (four volumes). – New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2008.
Muslim communities of South Asia: culture, society and power/ edited by T.N.Madan. – 3rd enlarged edition. – New Delhi: Manohar, 2001.
The meaning of the Ambedkarite conversion to Buddhism and other essays/ K.N.Kadam. – Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1997.
Breaking the monolith: essays, articles and columns on Islam, India, terror and other things that annoy me/ Ziauddin Sardar. – Gurgaon: Imprint one, 2008.
Law-Justice- Human Rights
Speaking in god’s name: Islamic law, authority and women/ Khaled Abu El Fadl. – Reprint. ‐ Oxford: One World, 2008.
Narrative, violence and the law: the essays of Robert Cover/ edited by Martha Minow; Michael Ryan and Austin Sarat. – Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.
The province of jurisprudence determined/ John Austin. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
An introduction to the philosophy of law/ Roscoe Pound. – New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922.
Challenging the rules of law: colonialism, criminology and human rights in India/ edited by Kalpana Kannabiran; Ranbir Singh. – New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2008.
Law’s empire/ Ronald Dworkin. – Cambridge: The Belknap press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
Law, violence and the philosophy of justice/ edited by Austin Sarat. – Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
The principles of morals and legislation/ Jeremy Bentham. – New York: Prometheus Books, 1988.
A life of H.L.A. Hart: the nightmare and the noble dream/ Nicola Lacey. – Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Towards legal literacy: an introduction to law in India/ edited by Kamala Sankaran; Ujjwal Kumar Singh. – New Delhi: OUP, 2008.
Women, madness and the law: a feminist reader/ edited by Wendy Chan; Dorothy E Chunn, Robert Menzies. – London: Glasshouse press, 2005.
Literature
A thousand splendid suns/ Khaled Hosseini. – New York: Riverhead books, 2007.
Black skin, white masks/ Frantz Fanon. – New York: Grove Press, 2007.
Vanman: Vendetta/ Bama. – New Delhi: OUP, 2008.
A wilderness of possibilities: Urdu studies in transnational perspective/ edited by Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld. – New Delhi: OUP, 2005.
Behind the veil: representation of Muslim woman in Indian writings in English 1950‐2000/ edited by A.R.Kidwai. – New Delhi: Manohar, 2006.
Literary Criticism-Theory
Elusive terrain: culture and literary memory/ Meenakshi Mukherjee. – New Delhi: OUP, 2008.
Limiting secularism: the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film/ Priya Kumar. – Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2008.
Religion
Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples/ V.S. Naipul. – London: Abacus, 1999.
Imperialism
Religion versus empire?: British protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700‐1914/ Andrew Porter. – Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Politics-Social Sciences
Kant: Political writings/ Kant; edited by H.S. Reiss. – 2nd enlarged edition. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Liberalism and empire: India in British liberal thought/ Uday Singh Mehta. – New Delhi: OUP, 1999.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the significance of his movement: a chronology/ edited by K.N.Kadam. – Reprint. – Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1993.
Anthropology
The ethnographer’s eye: ways of seeing in modern anthropology/ Anna Grimshaw. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Political Anthropology
Sovereign bodies: citizens, migrants and states in the postcolonial world/ edited by Thomas Hansen and Finn Stepputat. – Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Secularism
A secular age/ Charles Taylor. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Gender studies-Feminism
Hermeneutics and honor: negotiating female “public” space in Islamicate societies/ edited by Asma Afsaruddin. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Marxism
The German ideology including theses on Feuerbach and the introduction to the critique of political economy/ Karl Marx with Friedrich Engels. – New York: Promotheus Books, 1998.
Terrorism
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New arrivals in Telugu under different subject headings
Kavithvam
Maakoddee maala dorathanamoo...dandora geethaalu/ Sudayya
Mallee mallee pudathaa/ Vasa Prabhavathi.‐ Hyderabad: Vasa prachuranalu,2002.
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Vihwala & mabbullo darbaaru/ Sathyaki G.ed.‐Gudur: Kesareddy Rangareddy, 2008.
Kulam‐ Minority‐ B.C.Kulaalu
Minority B.C.kulaalu: saamaajika‐ aarthika‐ raajakeeya sthithigathulu/Ko.Pra
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Pramukhulu
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Bhasha‐ Rajakeeyaalu
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Baanam: Telangana bhaashaa vyaasaalu/ ed.by Bhaskar Nalimela & Gouri sankar Juluru.
Saahithyam
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Jyothirao Phule: sankshiptha rachanalu/ Harathi Vageesan.‐ Hyderabad: Hyderabad Book Trust,2006.
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Maadigodu/ Naagappa gaari Sunder raju
Noorella kanyaasulkam (1892‐1992)/ Saahithee saamskruthika samstha.‐ Vijayanagaram: Saahithee Samskruthika samstha,2008.
Irusu: Telangana saahithya vyaasaalu/ Prathap reddy, Kasula.‐ Miryalaguda: Matti mudranalu, 2008.
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Vyaasaalu
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Thaajaa kalam/ Srinivas rao Kommineni.‐Hyderabad: I‐DAR, 2006.
Navalalu
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Pattaabhi: oka naati ujwala kamma saamraajyam pai tholi praamaanika navala/ Sivaprasad Mudigonda
Karuna & daagudu moothalu/ Naveen Ampasayya.‐ Warangal: Prathyusha Prachuranalu,2008.
Kolimantukunnadi, ooru & agni kanam: moodu navalalu (1978‐1982)/ Vara vara rao.‐ Hyderabad: Perspectives, 2008.
Telangana
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Telangana raashtram: mahila‐ dalitha‐ bahujana‐ minority asthithvaalu/ M.Rathnamala.‐ Hyderabad: Nuthana prachuranalu, 2008.
Ooregimpu: Telangana sangathulu/ K.Vimala.‐ Hyderabad: Jaada publications,2006.
Telangana mucchata/M.Kodanda ram.‐ Hyderabad:Ramayya Vidya peetam, 2008.
Udyamaalu‐ Andhra Pradesh
Mahatthara Sreekaakula poraatam(chaarithraka pariseelana)/ Sivarami reddy.‐ Chaganti Bhaskar rao prachuranalu, 2006.
Raajakeeyalu
Andhra Pradesh lo sthaanika samsthala ennikalu‐ 2001( mandalaalu, Z.P.T.C lu, graama panchaayatheelu)
Sthreelu‐ Aarogyam
Ammaye amma ammamma: aarogya kosam/ Gayathri devi.‐ Mumbai: Aarogyapeetam, 2007.
Vikalaangulaina sthreelu: aarogya samrakshana/ Maxwell Jane, Wats beller Julia & David Darlina tr.by Rani
Contents of Journals
AGENDA
ISSUE 13 2008
Against Exclusion: The roots of social exclusion abd battles against it
Introduction: one person, one value by Anosh Malekar
Towards inclusion and equity by Prakash Louis
Garbage as a metaphor by Nityanand Jayaraman, photographs by Sudharak olwe
1,001 battles: converting dalit numbers into dalit strength by Padmalatha Ravi
Caste is the cruelest exclusion by Gail Omvedt
Dalit exclusion: the empirical evidence by Sukhadeo Thorat
Caste in the west by Nikki Van Der Gaag
Giving adivasis a voice by G N Devy
Queer azadi by Sidharth Narrain
Tamil Nadu pioneers transgender inclusion by Anupama Sekhar
The silence of same sex desiring women by Ponni Arasu
No white for these widows by Freny Manecksha
Hukumnama against female foeticide by Anosh Malekar
Sex workers as economic agents by Manjima Bhattachariya
Exclusions of Muslims by J S Bandukwala
Persons with disability may apply by Monideepa Sahu
Discrimination is built into our legislation by Alok Prakash Putul
Battling the triple burden of poverty, religion and gender by Anosh Malekar
The fallacy of equality by Oishik Sircar
ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
VOL. 14, NO. 3, 2008
ARTICLES
Affirmation, pain and empowerment
Rosi Braidotti
Politics of meaning: care work and migrant women
Huh Ra‐Keum
How ideas migrate: reflections from an international comparative project
Marilyn Porter & Krist Poerwandari
From ideal women to women’s Ideal: evolution the female image in Chinese feature films, 149‐2000
Chen Yanru
BOOK REVIEW
Sreelekha Nair, Women workers and globalization: emergent contradictions in India, Indrani Mazumdar, Kolkata: Stree, 2007.
THE BOOK REVIEW
VOL.XXXII, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 2008
South Asian Special‐ XII
Rajan Gurukkal A history of ancient and early medieval India: from the Stone Age to the 12th century by Upinder Singh
Kumkum Roy Discovering the Vedas: origins, Myths, mantras, rituals, insights by Frits Staal
Meena Bhargava Indi‐Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400‐1800 by Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Radhika Chaddha Makers of Islamic civilization: the Battula by L.P. Harvey
Kanakalata Mukund Merchants, traders, entrepreneurs; Indian business in the colonial era by Claude Markovits
A. Gangatharan surveying and mapping in colonial Sri Lanka by Ian J. Barrow
P.K.Datta Spoils of partition: Bengal and India, 1947‐1967 by Joya Chatterji
Pippa Virdee The long partition and the making of modern South Asia: refugees, boundaries, histories by Vazira Fazila‐Yacoobali Zamindar;
Spirals of contention: why India was partitioned in 1947 by Satish Saberwal
Michael H. Fisher Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia by Ayesha Jalal
Amiya P.Sen Colonialism, modernity and religious identities: religious reforms movements in South Asia edited by Gwilym Beckerlegge
J.Devika Women and social reform in moern India Vol.1 edited by Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar
Kalpana Kannabiran towards gender history: images, identities and roles of North Indian Women with special reference to Punjab by Kamlesh Mohan
Padmini Swaminathan Exposing the myths of Muslim fertility: gender and religion in a resettlement colony of Delhi by Sabiha Hussain
Neetha N. Marriage, migration and gender: women and migration in Asia, volume 5 edited by Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Oberoi
Rekha Pappu Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations & challenges edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead
Maithreyi Krishnaraj Global empowerment of Women: responses to globalization and politicized religions edited by Carolyn M. Elliott
Praveen Jha Making globalization work: the next step to global justice by Joseph Stiglitz
D.N.Reddy India’s economic transition: the politics of reforms edited by Rahul Mukherji
I.N.Mukherji Changing perceptions, altered reality: Pakistan’s economy under Musharraf, 1999‐2006 by Shahid Javed Burki; Initiating devolution for service delivery in Pakistan: ignoring the power structure by Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Foqia Sadiq Khan and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
Shakti Kak representing children: power, policy and the discourse on child labour in the football manufacturing industry of Pakistan by Ali Khan
Harini Nagendra Knowledge systems and national resources: management, policy and institutions in Nepal edited by Hemant R. Ojha, Netra P. Timsina, Ram B. Chhetri and Krishna P. Paudel
Navroz Dubash Climate change: An Indian perspective by Sushil Kumar Dash
V.S Vyas Governance of water: institutional alternative and political economy edited Vishwa Ballabh
K.C. Suri Explaining Indian Democracy: a fifty‐year perspective, 1956‐2006; Volume 1: The realm of Ideas: Inquiry and theory; Volume II: The realm of institutions: state formation and institutional change; VolumeIII: The realm of the public sphere: identity and policy by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Amit Prakash State of democracy in South Asia: A report; Local democracy in South Asia: micro process of democratization in Nepal and its neighbours edited by David N. Gellner and Krishna Hachhethu
Ajay Darshan Behera Electoral processes and governance in South Asia edited by Dushyantha Mendis
Ashwini K.Ray The history of human rights: from ancient times in the globalization era by Micheline R. Ishay; Human rights and humanitarian law: developments in Indian and international law by South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
David M. Malone The second world: empires and influence in the new global order by Parag Khanna
V.R.Raghavan US relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan: the imperial dimension by Hafeez Malik
Lalima Verma Asian security dynamics: US, Japan and the rising powers edited by V.R. Raghavan
Rear Admiral Maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region: critical issues in
Raja Menon debate edited by V.R.Raghavan and Lawrence Prabhakar
K.Subrahmanyam Armed conflicts in South Asia 2008: growing violence edited by D.Subra Chandran and P.R. Chari
P.R.Chari Crossed swords: Pakistan, its army and the wars within by Shuja Nawaz
S.Kalyanaraman Fighting lika a guerrilla: The Indian Army and counterinsurgency by Rajesh Rajagopalan
T.C.A. Rangachari Architect of global Jihad: the life of al‐Qaida stategist Abu Mus’ab Al‐Suri by Brynjar Lia
I.P.Khosla The last colony: Muzaffarabad‐Gilgit‐Baltistan edited by P.Stobdan and D. Suba Chandran
Anuradha M. Chenoy Women in peace politics by Paula Banerjee
Swarna Rajagopalan Constellations of Violence: feminist interventions in South Asia edited by Radhika Coomaraswamy and Nimanthi Perera‐Rajasingham
Monica Juneja The triumph of modernism: India’s artists and the Avant‐garde, 1922‐1947 by Partha Mitter
Sabina Gadihoke Umrao Singh Sher‐gil: his misery and his manuscript edited by Vivan Sundaram and Devika Daule‐Singh
A.G.K.Menon Beathless in Bombay by Murzban F. Shroff;
Delhi metropolitan: the making of an unlikely city by Ranjana Sengupta
Narayani Gupta Karachi during the British era: two historiesof a modern city introduction by Roland DeSouza; The historical quarters of Karachi by Yasmin Cheema
Ebba Koch Agra: The architectural heritage by Lucy Peck
Janaki Nair Beantown, boomtown: Bangalore in the world of words by Jayanth Kodkani and R. Edwin Sudhir
Madhuja Mukherjee Speaking havoc, social suffering & South Asian narratives by Ramu Nagappan
Shohini Ghosh Filming the line of control: The Indo‐Pak relationship through the cinematic lens edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Nirmal Kumar
Prema Chari Sanctuary! By Hema Ramakrishna
Gillian Wright Fireflies in the mist by Qurratulain Hyder
Gagan Gill Memory’s daughter (A novel) by Krishna Sobti; To hell with you, Mitro (A Novel) by Krishna Sobti
Sumanyu Satpathy Ramnabami‐Natak: the story of Ram and Nabami by Gunabhiram Barua
Chinmay Chakrabarty Freedom’s Ransom by Prafulla Roy
Radha Chakravarty Neither night nor day: 13 stories by women writers from Pakistan edited by Rakshanda Jalil
Baran Rehman The penitence of Nasooh by Nazir Ahmad Dehlavi;
The story of Maulvi Nazir ahmad in his words and mine by Mirza Farhatullah Baig
Rakshanda Jalil Coming back home: selected articles, editorial and interviews of Faiz Ahmed Faiz compiled by Sheema Majeed. Introduction by Khalid Hasan
Shobhana Bhattacharji A journey interrupted: being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Srikanth Kondapalli Smoke and mirrors: an experience of China by Pallavi Aiyar
Pamela Philipose Stop press: a life in Journalism by Inam Aziz; Themes and variations by Amalendu Das Gupta; The boxwallah and the middleman by Raj Chatterjee
MEDICO FRIEND CIRCLE BULLETIN
NO.330 AUGUST‐SEPTEMBER 2008
“We have planted a sapling of a Banyan tree”
Ravindra R.P.
Commercialization of surrogacy in the Indian context
N.B. Sarojini et al
The hunger bazaar
Radha Holla & Lakshmi Menon
Urban initiatives for a fossil fuel free society
T. Vijayendra
Concept note about dabate on infection control
Pankaj Shah, et al
Dharampal, 1924‐2006
M.R.Rajagopalan
Guardian of our secret hometowns
Testing untested foreign drugs
I’m fine Thank you
Kamala Jaya Rao
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS
VOL. 16 NO.31 SUPPLEMENT MAY 2008
INTRODUCTION
Second trimester abortion: Women’s health and public policy
Rodica Comendant, Mage Berer
THE LAW AND SAFETY OF SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION
A critical appraisal of laws on second trimester abortion
Marge Berer
Who is excluded when abortion access is restricted to twelve weeks? Evidence from Maputo Mozambique
Momade Bay Usta, Ellen MH Mitchell, Haillemcichael Gebreselassie, Eunice Brookman‐Amissah, Amata Kwizera
WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES
Reasons for second trimester abortions in England and Wales
Roger Ingham, Ellie Lee, Steve Joanne Clements, Nicloe Stone
Factors influencing the percentage of second trimester abortions in the Netherlands
Olga Loeber, Cecile Wijsen
Second trimester abortions in India
Suchitra S Dalvie
Late‐term abortion for fetal anomaly: Vietnamese women’s experiences
Tine Gammetoft, Tran Minh Hang, Nguyen Thi Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
Termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality: the perspective of a parent support organization
Jane Fisher
PROVIDERS’ PERSPECTIVES
Why I do abortions
Garson Romalis
A week in the life of an abortion doctor, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Marijke Alblas
Second trimester abortion provision: breaking the silence and changing the discourse
Lisa H Harris
Decision‐making after ultrasound diagnosis of fetal abnormality
Hilmar H Bijma, Agnes Van der Heide, Hajo IJ Wildschut
POLICY, POLITICS AND VALUES
Maintaining access to safe abortion and reducing sex ratio imbalances in Asia
Bela Ganatra
Implications of the federal abortion ban for women’s health in the United States
Tracy A Weitz, Susan Yanow
Clarifying values and transforming attitudes to improve access to second trimester abortion
Katherine L Turner, Alyson G Hyman, Mosotho C Gabriel
Fetal pain: do we know enough to do the right thing?
Stuart WG Derbyshire
SERVICE DELIVERY: FROM UNSAFE TO SAFE IN THE SECOND TRIMESTER
Applying the WHO strategic approach to strengthen first and second trimester abortion services in Mongolia
Bazarrachoa Tsogt, Khisgee Seded, Brooke R Johnson, and the strategic Assessment team
Establishing second trimester abortion services: experiences in Nepal, Viet Nam and South Africa
Alyson G Hyman, Traci L Baird, Indira Basnett
Second trimester abortion in Viet Nam: changing to recommended methods and improving service delivery
Tuyet Hoang TD, thuy Phan, trang Huynh NK
CURRENTLY RECOMMENDED METHODS: EVIDENCE AND ETHICS
Surgical abortion in the second trimester
Patricia A Lohr
Second trimester medical abortion with mifepristone‐misoprostol and misoprostol alone: a review of methods and management
Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Sujata Lalitkumar
Complications after second trimester surgical and medical abortion
Daniel Grossman, Kelly Blanchard, Paul Blumenthol
The choice of second trimester abortion method: evolution, evidence and ethics
David A Grimes
METHODS THAT SHOULD GO OUT OF USE
Misoprostol preferable to ethacridine lactate for abortions at 13‐20 weeks of pregnancy: Cuban experience
Alejandro Velazco Boza, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Luis Salas Castillo, Dania Rebeca Yi Marino, Ellen MH Mitchell
An historical overview of second trimester abortion methods
Marc Bygdeman, Kristina gemzell‐Danielsson
RECOMMENDATIONS
International Conference on Second trimester Abortion, 29‐31 March 2007.
SAMYUKTA: A JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
VOL.VII, NO. 2, JULY 2007
Selected poems from muturai and nalvali
Thomas H. Pruiksma
Thiruppavai of aandaal: the song of the maidens
Shobha Ramasamy
Researching the icons: women seers in the rig Veda
Snehi Chauhan
Mirabai and divine romanticism
Shubha Narayan
Rituals and the Namboothiri women
Ladha Bharathan
Morning & other poems
Srividya Sivakumar
The offering
Nalini Bakel
Poems
Mani Rao
Tsunami New Year 27 December 2004 to 2 January 2005: Prologue
Susan Visvanathan
The journey
P.Sreekala
Dharma: after Kurukshetra
Susan Oommen
Stanley
Atima Srivastava
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal: working towards a radical transformation of society
Veena Pooncha
My colonial education
Maria N. NG
Gloria Anzaldua: from a room of one’s own to borderlands/ LA Frontera
Roshan Thomas
Book Reviews
SEMINAR: THE MONTHLY SYMPOSIUM
NO.590 OCTOBER 2008
Unfinished Agendas 2: a symposium on some continuing concerns over five decades
A letter from seminar
Uneasy co‐existence
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
The public and the private
Suman Bery
Films and films: a letter
Chetan Anand
What’s wrong with our movies?
Rajeev Masand
Multilingual aspect
S. Ehtesham Husain
Multilinguality for India
Rama Kant Agnihotri
A question of priorities
I.P. Desai, R.F. Kothari and I.S. Gulati
Obstacles to a new revolution
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Deep roots
J.B. Kriplani
The necessity of corruption
Shiv Vishwanathan
BOOKS
Reviewed by Kailash K.K., Sambit Mallick, Rita Manchanda and Susan Visvanathan
COMMENT
The war on terror and the idea of Pakhtoonistan
Saeed Naqvi
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Published Stories, articles, Book reviews of Anveshi members
Baaitalam/ Gogu Shyamala
Pranahita.org, October 2008.
Seerelu simpi raikalu gunji…./ Joopaka Subadra
Bhumika, November 2008.
Feminisms in development: contradictions, contestations & challenges edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead/ Rekha Pappu,
The Book Review,Oct. 2008