2026

Abstract
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, aimed to address unemployment and poverty in rural India by providing the right to work. It emerged as one of the keystones of the welfare scheme in rural India. Despite considerable gains in employment generation, poverty reduction, and gender inclusion, the scheme has faced steady challenges, including delayed payments, inefficient implementation, misappropriated funds, and fiscal stress. (…)

For the past few months, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah has repeatedly announced that Naxalism will be completely eradicated from tribal-dominated states by 31 March 2026. Such authoritarian declarations by the central government, made under an imperialist agenda, are a direct threat aimed at seizing control over water, forests, and land in tribal areas and, in effect, wiping out Adivasi communities. These announcements are themselves unconstitutional and a blatant violation of the United (…)

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23rd Dec. 2025
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Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
by Judith M. Taylor
University of New Mexico Press
2025. Illustrations. 218 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-6783-9.
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Reviewed by Sarah Bilston (Trinity College)
Judith M. Taylor

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