Because the Personal is Political - A Documentation of the Work of the Special Cell for Women and Children 1984-1994

The documentation demonstrates the challenges waiting for the professional academic institutions to reach out beyond their walls to identify emerging issues and to develop new models of practice or strategies to work on those problems. Universities and their departments have a responsibility to the people of this country to contribute from their expertise as also learn from the community so that the experiences can be conceptualised to go back into teaching or in identifying the new areas of research. Documentation of the experiences of the Special Cell will help many others in seeking ways to work on an issue which attacks the basic human rights of one half of this humanity.