By Pradeep Man Tulachan
Rs 250
Amar grows up in a remote mountain village. As a child, he suffers from hunger and poverty and dreams to be an engineer. He goes to school while working as a domestic helper, hoping to fulfill his childhood ambition. His poverty and destiny however, take him to a different path. As a professional he comes across many problems due to his origin and he faces the evils of society. He aims for a larger goal of life and struggles hard to achieve it. Amar makes a journey to America and finds real freedom along with the realization that poor suffer there too.
The book is about desire, despair and hope for a brighter future and a better nation.
Ethnicity, Inequality, and Politics in Nepal
Edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Arjun Guneratne Rs 350
The ‘surprising’ rise of identity politics after the restoration of democracy in 1990 led to increasing academic and political attention on political exclusion and ethnic politics.
However, many aspects of exclusion are yet to be analyzed. The articles in this volume illuminate additional dimensions of exclusion and inequality. The authors examine interactions between formal and informal institutions and political exclusion, inter-group inequality, ethnicization of the business sector and the country’s protracted democratization.
Gender and Green Governance
The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry
By Bina Agarwal
Rs 1000
In an analysis that is conceptually sophisticated and statistically rigorous, using primary data on community forestry institutions in India and Nepal, this book is the first major study to comprehensively address these wide-ranging issues. It outlines how strategic partnerships between forestry groups and other civil society institutions could strengthen rural women’s bargaining power with community and government. And it examines the complexities of eliciting government accountability in addressing poor rural women’s needs, such as for clean domestic fuel and access to the commons.
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