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- A4India - A Literary Talent Center - Offers users an opportunity to publish their views on perceptions about India or any India-related issue.
www.a4india.com
- Abortion and Sex Selection in India - An essay by Radhika Balakrishnan examines the medicalization of birth in changing cultural contexts.
www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/medicalization/BALAKRISHNANSocial_Context.html
- Bride Burning and Dowry Deaths - Partha Banerjee analysis the origin, causes, legislation, and statistics of dowry-related bride burning cases in India.
www.bahnhof.se/~evah/Dowrydeaths.html
- Burning Widows Alive - An imaginary essay on sati, the practice of enticing widows to burn themselves alive on their husband's funeral pyres.
www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/roy.html
- Child Marriage in India - An essay by Sudheer Birodkar on the origin and practise of child marriage (Bal Vivaaha) in India.
www.vivaaha.org/child.htm
- Consumer Rights - Learn about consumer rights in India. Includes news updates, legal advice, and discussion forum.
www.consumerindia.com
- Consumer Rights and Responsibilities. - Learn about India's National Consumer day, the objectives of Consumer Protection Act (COPRA), and the Centre for Consumer Action Research and Training (CART).
www.cuts-india.org/Consumer-Rights.htm
- Dowry - An overview of women's movement in India against the practise of dowry.
members.tripod.com/Akshar/dowry/DOWRY.HTML
- Epidemic of Abuse - Features a report on police abuse of AIDS prevention workers.
hrw.org/reports/2002/india2
- Female Foeticide - Covers the issues of female foeticide in India from a sociological perspective. Includes analysis, statistics and case studies.
www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0326/kaur.html
- Female Infanticide - An overview of female infanticide and foeticide in India. Also read about violence in the conjugal relationships and legal assistance for victims of repression.
www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/suchana/0909/rh057.html
- India Policy Institute - An Internet based think-tank on India that dwells on issues like economy, governance, social change, capitalism, socialism and government policies amongst other topics.
indiapolicy.org
- Lok Satta (People's Power) - A non-partisan people's movement for better governance that stands for rule of law and democratic reforms.
www.loksatta.org
- People's Union for Civil Liberties - Provides online journal and documents concerning unresolved human rights problems in India.
www.pucl.org
- Population - Read about the population policy, reproductive health, family, and development.
www.popcouncil.org/asia/india.html
- Poverty in India - A database on poverty and growth in India from 1950 to 1994.
www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/indiadata.htm
- Sanatana Hindu philosophy - Presents a number of essays and writings, on issues of the day, from the modern Hindu nationalist viewpoint.
www.sanatanadharma.net
- The Hinduism and Indology Home - A website with essays and cultural information on India, much of it from a Tamil nationalist and anti-Aryan perspective.
www.freespeech.org/india100
- The National Commission For Women - The apex national level organisation for protecting and promoting the interests of women in India. Covers dowry issues, female foeticide, child marriage, sexual harassment, legal advice and help.
www.ncw-india.org
- The National Commission For Women - A press information bureau report by the Government of India on the setting up of the commission in 1992.
pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2002/fmar2002/f050320021.html
- The Persistence of Poverty - An essay by Parth Shah analysing the socio-cultural causes of poverty in India.
www.libertyhaven.com/countriesandregions/india/persistence.html
- Unemployment in India - An essay by Pravin Visaria covering unemployment issues, Government policies and legislations for promoting youth employment in India.
www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/publ/etp36.htm
- Women's Writing and Censorship - Read about the issue of gender-based censorship and a report on the Gender and Censorship Project in India.
www.wworld.org/programs/regions/india.htm
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