Contemporary Indian Women Man and woman are like two wheels of a carriage. The life of one without the other is incomplete. Neither man nor woman can be what it is in him or her to be if either of them leads an isolated life. Man and woman both contribute to the development of each other’s personality. Our ancient scriptures assigned woman a place higher than that of man. It was...

Privatisation: Strengths and Weaknesses Privatisation is a multi-meaning concept. It conveys a variety of meanings. In a narrow sense, privatisation means sale of State-owned equity shares to private shareholders, change of ownership of units of production from the State agencies to the private sector and introduction of private management and control. In a broader sense, it means extension of autonomy for the public sector, debureaucratisation of the public sector, deformalisation of...

Greater political power alone will not improve women’s plight “Frailty”, the name given to woman by William Shakespeare in the Elizabethan days, has long since lost its relevance. Woman, the better half of man, has since woken up from her slumber of the millennia and is asking for her due place in society. Women comprise almost 49 percent of the population of the country and are thus the largest minority community...