October 2016–March 2017 Volume 10 • Issue 2 & 3 The Quarterly Newsletter from Shri Hamid Ansari, Hon’ble Vice President of India released SAGE Bhasha title “An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics 1937 to 1961” by Prof Paul R Brass in the presence of Shri Sharad Yadav, MP, Rajya Sabha, Bihar, Shri Amar Singh, MP, Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh, Shri H D Deve Gowda, Former Prime Minister of India, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Shri Ahmed Patel, MP, Rajya Sabha, Gujarat, Shri Dushyant Chautala, MP, Lok Sabha, Hisar, Shri Ajit Singh Founder and Chief, Rashtriya Lok Dal, Shri Jayant Chaudhary, General Secretary, Rashtriya Lok Dal, Mr Vivek Mehra, MD and CEO, SAGE Publications and other dignitaries at an event held in New Delhi. SAGE Bhasha stall at the Indian Language Pavilion Shri Pranab Mukherjee, +RQ·EOH3UHVLGHQWRI,QGLD, unveiled “,QGLD·V Film Society Movement” in the presence of Mr V K CherianDXWKRU at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Turn to back inner for a sneak preview of ARE YOU A TIGER, A CAT OR A DINOSAUR? by Stephane Garelli Table of Seconds with Mr G N Bajpai Contents How to take your Corporate Governance AdvantEdge ......................... 28-33 speak practice beyond letters of law and regulations! Business & Ghyanendra Nath Bajpai, the ex-chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), elucidates Management ....................... 14-21 how companies can develop their own governance best practices to maximize wealth creation, build enduring relationships with stakeholders and be a net contributor to the economies of operated geographies in his book Communication & “The Essential Book of Corporate Governance”. Media Studies ..........................4-7 author Q. Could you please elaborate the which make it different from other Now to explicate about barriers, Economics & scope and theme of your book? books on Corporate Governance? my analysis of various Governance Development Studies .............7-10 A. The book is comprehensive in its A. Corporate Governance is a booming failures during my stint at SEBI and while researching this book approach and the basic theme is topic and there are certainly Education ..................................27 to propagate the idea of building many good books on this theme. has revealed that the barriers a culture of efficacious corporate However, none of these books talk mostly center on agent-principle governance in the organization about stakeholders value creation relationship and inherent human Health ........................................22 leading to value creation. through the instrumentality of instinct of self-interest. The book, however, suggests some effective History ......................................3-5 Q. The unremitting transformation Corporate Governance. This is the unique feature of the book, and has ways to overcome them. in environment is becoming Law & Criminal Justice .............11 threatening to the validity of been demonstrated by outlining actual methods with examples of corporate governance tools. What Peace & Conflict Studies .....11-12 according to you is needed to assessment of value creation. prevent this? Q. What according to you is the secret to Good Corporate Governance Politics & International A. Corporate Governance is an Relations ............................. 12-13 important tool and essential for the and what might be the barriers to very existence of an Institution. To it? keep the management enthused and A. The secret of good Corporate Psychology ................................22 encouraged to use it in the enlightened Governance lies in the board interest of all stakeholders, continual room practices and the journey Research Methods .............. 23-26 improvement in the quality of of improving it begins with the Corporate Governance is the only composition of the board which Social Work ...............................10 way forward. This book seeks to has to be supplemented with a dwell upon how it can be done. strong framework of constant Sociology ..................................1-3 Q. Could you please take us through communication, focusing on SAGE Response some unique features of your book substantial outcomes. Paperback ` 595 Journals & 978-93-859-8521-8 Digital Products ...................34-36 February 2017 ‘Decline in working women is worrisome’ In recent years, news about the declining number of women in the workforce in India has surprised economists and feminists. The downward trend has been a bit of a mystery. After all, during a period of rapid economic growth more women should be out there working. Why would they stay at home? A new book, Transformation of Women at Work in Asia (SAGE), edited by Sukti Dasgupta and Sher Singh Verick unravels this puzzle. Edited excerpts: Dr Sukti Dasgupta Dr Sher Singh Verick How significant is the decline of attainment; second, rising What are the three things the government can do women in the workforce? Do we household incomes, which to make it easier for women to work? need to worry? pulled women out of the A number of dimensions should be addressed but The decline in the female labour force drudgery of agricultural labour; the top three interventions include: participation rate in India is significant. third, mis-measurement of women’s participation in • Promoting women’s employment as a central The recent data from the Labour theme for economic policy, and facilitating Bureau for 2013-14 indicates that the the labour force; and fourth, the lack of employment investment in locations where women can participation rate for women stands at access jobs, particularly outside the metros. just 31.1 percent. opportunities for women in the non-farm sector. • Improving access to quality higher education and While the decline of women in the training. workforce in India is due to various Based on small-sample factors, we should be concerned. primary surveys, there is • Enhancing women’s rights and protection in After all, if India is to sustain high also some evidence that the the workplace, which would, in turn, encourage levels of inclusive economic growth, mechanisation of agriculture women to join the labour force. it is absolutely essential that women’s has contributed to the Two other important areas for policies include: participation in the labour force decline in demand for female reducing the time burden for women through increases. The issue should, therefore, agricultural labour. better access to water, energy and childcare; and be of central concern to economic Hardback ` 995 The picture is bleak and there improving infrastructure so women have safe and policy. 978-93-859-8505-8 can be no complacency about affordable options to access jobs. What would be the key reason for the challenges women face in this decline and is the picture totally bleak? the world of work. At the same time, new opportunities are emerging for women. In our recent book we have highlighted four explanations: First, increased educational SectionSociology Header AnalyzingAna the impacts of science and An account of the censorship of literature technology on women’s bodies, lives and work in India since Independence FEMINISTS AND SCIENCE THE WRITER, THE Critiques and Changing READER AND THE STATE Perspectives in India Literary Censorship in India Volume 2 Mini Chandran Professor of English Edited by Sumi Krishna Former Literature, Humanities and Social President, Indian Association for Sciences department, IIT Kanpur Women’s Studies and Gita Chadha Assistant Professor, Department of The author recalls the literary censorship Sociology, University of Mumbai of books in India, both in English and in regional languages, and the impact of ...provide(s) the basis to reimagine Emergency on banned books. The book ways forward. highlights recent trends and current challenges to free literary expression in Vineeta Bal, Staff Scientist, the country and attempts to locate it in National Institute of Immunology, the tradition of Indian literary history. The Journal of Gender Studies term ‘censorship’, used in the book, is a rubric that includes various This volume critiques the relationship between science, gender and repressive measures, both governmental and non-governmental, in patriarchies in the Indian context from different disciplinary locations. banning a book after publication, withdrawing a book using coercive It addresses the complexity of local knowledge and the politics of tactics or suppression of a work on other grounds. It adds a literary knowledge-making; interrogates how creativity and the practices of perspective to the process of reception of these books by the reader. science are gendered; explores methodologies of practicing science differently and moving towards a more inclusive pedagogy. It also CONTENTS draws upon the experience of how science and technology have Preface / Introduction: Besieged Words and Strategies of Control / The impacted the bodies, lives and work of Indian women, going beyond Writer and the State: The Indian Literary Tradition / Censorship Laws and the problems of women scientists in institutions, and offering a Colonial Roots / Banned in India: Books Denied to Indian Readers / The Bhasha Fights: Censorship in Regional Languages / Of Shame and Silence: pioneering contribution to both science studies and women’s studies. The Emergency 1975–77 / The ‘Democratization’ of Censorship: Books and CONTENTS the Indian Public / Index Preface / Introduction / Understanding Gender and Science in India: Institutions