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Indiacontributes to about a quarter of all global maternal deaths and maternal mortality has a direct impact on infant mortality. What role do nutrition and social practices, like early marriage, play in this grim tableau? For some answers, I visit Jhakaron ki Dhani village, which lies 25 kilometres fromJodhpurin western Rajasthan. There I meet, Shamu Meghwal, who epitomises the health [...]
Malnutrition is one of the major issues Odisha has been grappling with for several years and successive governments in the state have come in for severe criticism on the handling of this issue from different quarters, including the National Human Rights Commission and the Supreme Court. Natural calamities have made a dire situation, worse, especially since agriculture continues to be [...]
Traditional western Rajasthani delicacies are fast becoming a gourmet’s delight inIndiaand abroad. In fact, no Marwari feast is complete without the “exotic” Sangari, cooked as a dry subzi or with gravy. Of course, Sangari, the fruit of the versatile Khejari (Prosopis cineraria) tree, indigenous to the vastThar desert, has provided nutrition and nourishment to the local communities over generations. As [...]
Ignorant of contemporary Italian women writers, I was bewildered when asked to be ‘in conversation’ with Dacia Maraini at the recent Kolkata Bookfair 2012, where she had come as a member of the Italian delegation of writers and artists. As I started to find out more about her, the full force of her distinction began to unfold. This is a [...]
It’s been raining awards nights on Indian television recently. Hindi film stars have been miming, singing and dancing for prime time viewers in glitzy ceremonies being beamed into living rooms, weekend after weekend. But this season, there’s really been just one star who’s been feted, praised and envied – actress Vidya Balan. Her crtical and commercial success of her film, [...]
Norma Alvares is an advocate of the Bombay High Court and an activist and campaigner on social and environmental issues of public concern, especially in her home state of Goa. Over the past two decades, she has argued, pro bono, over a hundred public interest litigation cases and has shared in, what she terms, as the joy in being a [...]
Kaushal Markam’s experiences are not unusual. When she managed to get a job card entitling her to work on one of the government-run worksites under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), she was delighted. Money was always in short supply, and this 35-year-old Baiga tribal woman of Dongaria village in Paraswara block of the western Madhya Pradesh [...]
The Thai government may be trying to cast away its image of being a destination for sex tourism but the Walking Street of Pattaya is blissfully unaware of this. It continues to attract girls from all overThailand, who use their bodily endowments to make their fortunes. As the sun sets and the neon lights come on, out of the numerous [...]
Ruth Vanita is a professor at the University of Montana, was a reader in English at Delhi University, and was founding co-editor of Manushi (1978-1990). She is the author of several books including ‘Same Sex Love In India: Readings In Literature and History’ (with Saleem Kidwai); ‘Sappho and the Virgin Mar: Same Sex Love And the English Literary Imagination’ and’ [...]
A young Kashmiri woman is telling her customer about the intricacy of craftsmanship of the ‘numdha’ rugs she is selling. “Each piece is exclusive and only the best quality merino wool is being used,” she says. Surrounded by rugs embroidered with green paisleys, autumnal maple leaves and cherry blossoms, Arifa is a picture of poise and confidence, which belies her [...]
Combating violence against women, surviving genocide or fighting for human rights are challenges confronting populations across international borders today. However, young Geneva-based poetess Sreyashi Ghosh is using an amalgamation of the arts to focus on these issues; “to create awareness and awakening and even find closure,” she says. ‘I will overcome these ups and downs/Take life in my stride/Strike back [...]
Meryl Streep, who won the best actress BAFTA for her performance in “The Iron Lady”, says she instantly said yes for the movie on former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher because there aren’t many filmmakers who are interested in what it means to be a woman leader. “When director Phyllida Lloyd told me she had a film that circles Margaret [...]
At 9 am, Harlal Bhil, 60, is in his neighbour’s hut to prepare his first meal of the day. He grinds a paste of garlic, onion, and a few leaves of coriander that he and his wife, Tulsibai then eat with a ‘roti’ leftover from the previous evening. Their small hut at one end of Ganpatkheda hamlet in Bhadesar in [...]
The emergency feeding does not come to a halt any more on Sundays in Silva Gram Panchayat in Komna block of Odisha’s Nuapada district. It all started when ward panch, Sabita Pradhan, decided to raise her voice. She asked anganwadi workers a question: “Where will the children of poor families eat on Sundays?” Starvation is common and rampant in Nuapada [...]
When I was interviewing inspirational women who have emerged as post-independent India’s most prominent professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate heads, for my book, ‘Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire India’ – published by 42 Book Galaxy – not many had chosen to speak of their personal relationships. Lila Poonawalla, 67, philanthropist and former chairperson and managing director of Alfa LavalIndiaand Tetra PakIndia- [...]
Amy Chua’s ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’ may be the story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting techniques, but today this ‘comic’ critique of what Chua considers the weak American parenting style, has created huge controversy internationally. Here’s what Amy’s own extreme Chinese parenting style was like: Not one to settle for second best, the Yale law professor [...]
India has achieved, in more than one way, the recognition as a global power in many significant economic sectors. Nationally, a lot of positive trends on many social indicators like the near eradication of polio, significant increase in literacy rates and the increased rates in enrolment of both boys and girls in primary schools. However, progress has been slow in [...]
Computer literacy and English proficiency can go a long way in helping people secure jobs. A Bangalore-based group has now unveiled a special training programme to equip women, including homemakers and college dropouts, with these skills and more. “The objective of the training is to equip women of different backgrounds with English proficiency, computer literacy and vocational skills to make [...]
Love and grief, motherhood, redemption and her hometown Nainital…Writer and novelist Namita Gokhale runs her readers through a roller-coaster of emotions in her first ever collection of short stories, “The Habit of Love”, peeling the skin off feminine dramas across centuries in a contemporary voice. “The stories speak of a woman’s need to love, rather than the objects of love. [...]
New York (WeNews\WFS) – In 2011, Britta Gross, director of Global Energy Systems and Infrastructure Commercialization for General Motors, literally got the world ready for the advent of the electric car with the Chevrolet Volt. Gross, who has a degree in electrical engineering, was in charge of preparing states across the US to be “plug-in ready” for the Volt by [...]
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