Vandana Mishra: 2 books
I, The Salt Doll
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy forced her to give up her education and join Parshwanath Altekar’s Little Theatre in Mumbai in 1940. But the young Konkani girl soon became a hit on the Gujarati stage and went on to storm the Marwadi stage. And then, at the age of twenty-one,...
Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations
Employment and Occupational Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea...