The successful aging model marked by an emphasis on the self has dominated the gerontological tradition in a majority of the western industrialized countries. However, this narrative of active, socially engaged and consumer ...

This article is grounded on a long-term fieldwork carried out in rural India (Gujarat) with a group of Dalit women (the term for which are designated the "old" untouchables of India) and, by extension, with women from other ...

Luro, an Austroasiatic language of the Mon-Khmer group is spoken in the Teressa island of the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, India. Luro is a critically endangered language spoken by less than ...

Background: Economic growth is widely regarded as a necessary, and often sufficient, condition for the improvement of population health. We aimed to assess whether macroeconomic growth was associated with reductions in ...

In this paper our analysis focuses on theorising “dissent” as a philosophical-political “moment” and studying the voice of “dissent” through the writings of Arundhati Roy. We argue through a close reading of Roy’s texts ...

It is not clear what Gupta and Pednekar mean when they state, ‘We decided to look at our Mumbai Cohort Study data once again to look at the burden of the CVD mortality by educational status’.1 We not only had cited but ...

This essay challenges the salience of the caste question for writing a social history of modern Assam. It argues that pre-colonial records contained enough indicators for arguing that caste in Assam was never a rigid and ...

Great minds like Charles Darwin had long understood the importance of viewing humans through the lens of evolution and environmental necessities. Both cognitive and evolutionary psychologists propose that most (if not all) ...