Poverty is a social phenomenon in which a part of the society is unable to fulfill its basic necessities of life. If a substantial part of a society, as in many Third World countries, is forced to live at subsistence level, then the society is said to suffer from mass poverty. Vulnerability to...

India is a country of cultural, economic and political diversity. This diversity provides us a unique opportunity to understand various economic, political and cultural complexities of our society. Diversity does not mean inequality among various components of an economy; it means availability...