Articles by Padma Prakash

A reading of the central budget, 1994-95 for health indicates the increasing dissonance in planning for health care and medical research, with the state further shedding its welfare responsibilities.

Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions Padma Prakash The evolution of Bombay's multifaceted socio-cultural identity and its development as India's business capital have been influenced historically by diverse political and economic factors.

Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy by Sanjoy Hazarika; Penguin Books (India), New Delhi, 1987; pp 230, Rs 60.
IF proof were needed that Bhopal has been relegated to history here it is. Compactly in 200-odd pages Sanjoy Hazarika has lucidly sanitised the disaster so that the horror of that December night and the much worse trauma of the months and years since can be read in the comfort of our drawing rooms. It is certainly not an unfeeling narration

the shariat, writes Ahmed, muslim women have "unfailing right" to maintenance and are guaranteed against destitution. Though Section 125 and the shariat both demand that the liability to maintain the divorced wife is on the husband, if however the husband cannot pay, "then under Section 125 no order of maintenance can be passed against him". But the muslim law guarantees, claims Ahmed, "the wife is entitled to maintenance from her husband in any case

Notes The findings reported in the paper "Animal and Human Response to Methyl Isocyanate" by U C Pojtzani and ER Kinkhead at a seminar at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (May 16-20,1966), and several publications by the same authors, are adopted in the Material Data Sheet No F 43458 A (UCC) which gives detailed instructions on precautions for THE impact of any disaster, 'natural' or industrial, is felt most acutely by the socially and, economically disadvantaged sections of society, among whom are women. Even within this section the pattern of disability probably reflects the relative-vulnerability of the different groups. In Bhopal, for instance, the very young and the very old have undoubtedly suffered the most. But what is not so readily acknowledged is that women due to their historically determined social location have suffered in significantly different ways.