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- Abha Sharma
- • March 13, 2016
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JAIPUR — Being a qazi, or a Muslim expert on religious law, means much more to Safia Akhtar than just having the power to solemnize a marriage. “As a qazi, I want to be a true counselor to the women of…
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- Jacqueline de Chollet
- • January 30, 2016
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It began with a young woman named Bhanwari. In 1992, I was traveling in a remote part of the desert area of Rajasthan, India, near the Pakistan border, far from a main road, down a dirt track. I came…
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- Chetna Verma
- • January 4, 2016
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AGRA, India — Young people aspire to have a comfortable home, a rewarding career and a loving family — and they work hard to put together the pieces of this perfect life. But what if a person never gets…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 9, 2015
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The Hindu nationalist Indian government, on a campaign against independent advocacy groups, ordered the closing of Greenpeace India and gave it 30 days to disband, the organization said on Nov.6. The move comes only weeks before the important United…
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- Ninglun Hanghal
- • October 19, 2015
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DELHI — Moving images and stories of tired, anxious refugees crossing into Europe have occupied the home pages of news sites, dominated air time and gone viral online over the last months. The world is facing the biggest refugee…
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- Yashica Dutt
- • September 21, 2015
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I am a terrible cook, a life skill I am not proud of missing out on. I routinely shame myself for not posting curated selfies of home-cooked cuisine, but my mother couldn’t be happier about my impediment. When I…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 22, 2015
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In the seven decades that have passed since the founding of the United Nations, more than 80 former colonies and territories have become independent, a record worth celebrating. In that same period, however, there have been reverses and losses….
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- Pushpa Achanta
- • July 7, 2015
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BENGALURU — “The stove exploded in the kitchen,” they say. “Scalding hot water fell on me by accident while I was making tea,” or “I didn’t realize that my clothes caught fire while I was cooking.” These are some…
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- Amlan Kusum Ganguly
- • May 20, 2015
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KOLKATA, India — We started Prayasam, which means endeavor, in 1996 to organize children from difficult backgrounds and transform them first into change makers of their own communities and then make them accountable and responsible for the neighboring communities….
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- Pushpa Achanta
- • February 19, 2015
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BENGALURU — In a traditional patriarchal society, where the identity and value of a woman is determined through her husband, widowhood is about much more than losing a husband. In India, from changing how she dresses to being treated…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 28, 2015
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Three world leaders visiting India in recent days have found reason to speak publicly about the importance of diversity and tolerance. First, it was the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, then United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But the…
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- Rakesh Kumar
- • January 12, 2015
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A quiet health revolution is underway in villages where debilitating malnutrition had afflicted tribal people in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, an Indian state better known for the graceful palaces, colorful festivals and deserts crisscrossed by camels luring tourists…
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- Sarada Lahangir
- • December 22, 2014
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Sujata Behera, a 17-year-old Dalit at the bottom of India’s caste system, did the unthinkable last year. Just two weeks before her upcoming marriage, she told her parents, who live in a remote village in the eastern Indian state…
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- Vrishali Pispati
- • December 1, 2014
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Decades of activism to free oppressed children in India earned Kailash Satyarthi the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Malala Yousafzai, the young education advocate from Pakistan. Satyarthi’s advocacy also brought to international attention the work that…
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- Suchismita Pai
- • November 24, 2014
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PUNE, India — They came at her with knives and other weapons so that they could disrupt her meetings and prove her ineffective. When Sangeeta Banne became the first woman to head a local government council in the state…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, India, Women
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