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  r.i.c.e. is delighted to share that our execuitive Director, Diane Coffey, will be presenting a paper 'Measuring Explicit Prejudice: Findings from Social Attitudes Research, India' on 10th October at the seminar talks in IIT, Delhi .  The paper has...Read More..

Congratulations to Jean Drèze on the launch of his new book, Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone.  The book was just launched in a lovely outdoor ceremony in Ranikhet, Uttarkhand.  You can read about on the permanent black publishing...Read More..

This blog post was written by Sapna Gopal and was originally published at India Climate Dialogue: If India reduced its air pollution to comply with the air quality standard of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Indians could live about four...Read More..

In most countries around the world, marital rape may be prosecuted (see box 11 on page 113 of this UN report).  But in India, marital rape is not classified as a crime.  Recently the Government of India filed an affidavit...Read More..

We were very happy to find three reviews of Where India Goes in various corners of the internet and we wanted to share them with you! The first is by Raghunath Nageswaran at Youth ki Awaas.  It provides a great...Read More..

The book and the SQUAT survey are both quoted in an article in the Asia section of this week's issue of The Economist: "Indian officials are humiliating people who defecate outdoors: Building lots of toilets does not guarantee they will...Read More..

In homage to the people who posted photos of On What Matters on top of things, a post on Where India Goes has been the past few days.  I won't start by commenting on the "subtle art" of book curation...Read More..

Where India Goes is back in the Kindle store.  I know that some of you pre-ordered the book for Kindle, only to have it mysteriously canceled the other day when it was supposed to be delivered.  In fact, that happened...Read More..

"The health toll in India is staggering. Diarrhea kills over 117,000 children under age five each year. Millions more struggle on with chronically infected intestines that don’t absorb nutrients and medicines well. The misery cycles on: Underweight women give birth...Read More..

We wanted to share some more media coverage that the book has got in other newspapers. It got covered in The National Herald, that uses an extract from the chapter in the book that talks about the world view of...Read More..

We wanted to share some of the media coverage that the book 'Where India Goes' has got so far. An op-ed by Val Curtis in The Indian Express talks about the book in explaining the challenges that SBM faces in...Read More..

Visit the photos tab to see photos from the book launch of Dean and Diane's "Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste". Alternatively, click here. The photos were taken by me and Jay....Read More..

r.i.c.e. is delighted to announce Harper Collins' publication in July of Dean and Diane's new book Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste! Book launch: Come for snacks and discussion at 7:20 pm, Friday 14...Read More..

An article in last month's Caravan magazine covers the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission and provides sharp insight into some of the problems the program faces in rapidly reducing open defecation. Sagar, the author of the article, visited three places close to...Read More..

Until now, concern and action regarding outdoor air pollution in India have focused on Delhi and other large urban centers. However, 30 percent of Indians live in rural Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which satellite images show falling under...Read More..

Diane and I were at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America 2017 in Chicago this week. Diane presented her paper, co-authored with Ashwini Deshpande, Jeff Hammer and Dean, "Local social inequality, economic inequality, and disparities in child height in...Read More..