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Seventeen weeks pregnant and facing a miscarriage, Savita Halappanavar and her husband Praveen walked into an Irish maternity ward in October 2012. Unwittingly, the couple also walked into that deeply controversial arena in which Ireland’s legislative position on abortion remained unresolved. A week later, Savita was dead from septicaemia. Reports of her death and of the refusal to allow Savita a termination of her pregnancy sent shockwaves across Ireland and around the world. Once again the subject of abortion was catapulted to the very top of the agenda in Ireland. With the pro-life and pro-choice camps claiming the moral high ground, both sides in the bitterly contested battle sought to...
Marriage not only binds two people in an unbreakable relationship but also connects two families forever. As Karan started earning good money as a marketer, Mohini also started thinking about her son's marriage. Suddenly, Mohini got such a news from her daughter which filled her heart with fear and doubt, and she decided to have an immoral relationship with her son.
The 'Digital Health Platform Handbook' serves as a comprehensive guide to developing a national digital health system through the establishment of a Digital Health Platform (DHP). This handbook is aimed at health sector planners, enterprise architects, software developers, and solution providers involved in designing and implementing digital health systems. It provides detailed insights into creating an interoperable and integrated platform that enhances the efficiency and coordination of health applications and services. By offering a foundation of common and reusable technology components, the DHP enables systems to communicate effectively, fostering innovation and improved public health outcomes. This resource is particularly relevant in the context of WHO's Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2024 and supports the broader goals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 3 on health and well-being.
The first drama anthology by Black and Asian women writers.
South Asian Pornographies is the first consolidated volume that explores the relationships between pornography, obscenity, law and desire in South Asia. Focusing on case studies from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh while gesturing towards other countries in South Asia, the authors of this volume come from fields as varied as history, literature, media and communication, and the visual arts. The book proposes that as a geo-political location, South Asia has a unique relationship to pornography, given the multiplicity of cultural and legal-censorial regimes that define the obscene and the permissible. South Asian case studies can demonstrate how pornography in the region is often defined in ob...
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya is well-known as the creator of India's national song, 'Bande Mataram', and as a novelist who pioneered the art form in India with acclaimed classics like Ananda Math, Bishabrikha and Devi Chaudhurani. As critics have recognized, few writers in world literature have been so accomplished in both philosophy and art. So extensive was his output on religion and Hinduism, and so erudite his articulation, that Aurobindo Ghosh called him a rishi, while Nirad C. Chaudhuri believed that Bankim had 'one of the greatest Hindu minds, perhaps equalled in the past - whole of the Hindu past - only by the great Samkara'. Many Threads of Hinduism brings together some of Bankim's...