Governance and Poverty Reduction: Beyond the Cage of Best Practices

Dr. Amita Singh (b. 1955) is a reader in the Department of Political Science in kamala Nehru College. University of Delhi,. She has been a sensitive and prolific writer on issues concerning the deprived sections of society. Her writings range from the ‘epistemology of Bertrand Russell’. ‘Russell’s internationalism’, Women’ : conservation: Vegetarianism to the environmental and grassroot issues such ask Regulating Hazardous industries’, women and the new Panchayat regime’, ‘Designing clean and green villages’, Mass Media andvillage development and Project Mankind’, Besides these published papers in the country’s prestigious journals, newspapers and magazines. She has contributed to a vegetarian anthology from Santa Monica University (USA) , and has also written a book on ‘The Political Philosophy of Bertrand Russell’ which was published in 1987 by Mittal Publications.

Kapil Kapoor (b. 1940) is Professor of English, Centre for Linguistics and English, and Concurrent Professor, Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, from 1997-1999 and Rector of the University from 1999-2002. His teaching and research interests include literary and linguistic theories - both Indian and Western, philosophy of language, nineteenth century British life, literature and thought, and Indian intellectual traditions. He has been lecturing on these themes and has written extensively on them. He has been teaching for almost forty-five years now. Literary Theory - Indian Conceptual Framework (1998); Canonical Texts of Literary Criticism (1995); Language, Literature and Linguistics - The Indian Perspective (1994); and South Asian Love Poetry (1994) and Text and Interpretation in the Indian Tradition (2005)are among his publications.