This is a test post. Having problems posting / adding comments. Please check this and let me know. Update: This post works fine, so do all others except the earlier one on the gender ratio. Maybe some setting went wrong in that? In any case, if you have any thoughts on that one, please leave… Continue reading Test post – debate on the sex ratio continues
Category: Society & Development
Women’s rights, rural development, ICTs…
Sex ratio across rural and urban India
Just read Harini’s post on the 60 million missing children – how to name it? Readying myself for the enlightening and amusing comments containing the “ist” words – activist and feminist – I urge you to head there right now and read it. (And no, don’t even bother mentioning Hepatitis to me). And just today,… Continue reading Sex ratio across rural and urban India
Computer training and social mobility
In the previous post about the nature of advertising in high involvement product categories, education figured as a lucrative business area. I discussed briefly the areas of English coaching and higher education (as represented by the numerous private MBA institutes and dental colleges and engineering college all over the country). Exciting promises of a bright… Continue reading Computer training and social mobility
Development and at a low cost?
The developing world. And within that, rural. Children and education. And women. This is where all emerging technology seems to be headed. Politically correct noises? Or just plain marketing widsom? And is this here to last – and deliver the promise of accelerated development in these countries? Or a bubble waiting to burst? Yahoo studying… Continue reading Development and at a low cost?
HIV and morality in Tamilnadu
This time targeting teenage school drop outs, UNICEF and the Nehru Yuva Kendra have roped in the Song and Drama division of the Ministry of Information and Broadasting to launch a new awareness program in Tamilnadu. This move has been driven by the UNICEF estimate that one of every two new HIV infections is in… Continue reading HIV and morality in Tamilnadu
Pardada Pardadi Education
I had written about the saas bahu sammelan a while ago. Now read about the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, an educational progam based in Anoopshahar in the Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh. The PPES opted for a unique approach of education through academic, value-based, and skill-based education allows PPGVS to address the interrelated issues of… Continue reading Pardada Pardadi Education
New links on ict and development
Lean blogging period. Here are links to a few interesting articles I came across – ave placed them here for my future reading too… Government Launches Two Portals For Women – via ContentSutra. Maintained by the NIC (National Informatics Centre), these sites are loaded with information and statistics (I checked out both). The NRCW website… Continue reading New links on ict and development
Headed towards Mathrubhoomi
Yet another China v/s India story. And not so pleasant or exciting this time. It is believed that the Chinese kill over a million girls every year in order to have a boy. It is also believed that Indians are about to overtake the Chinese in a few years. And Even the world’s poorest countries,… Continue reading Headed towards Mathrubhoomi
Empowering Draupadi and Sita?
In the series on India Empowered in the Indian Express, Fali S Nariman writes on an ideal situation where women are empowered and equal – in the eyes of the law and society… He quotes this poem written by Kartikeya Sarabhai after after seeing the Mahabharata at Avignon. All rights belong to husbands so says… Continue reading Empowering Draupadi and Sita?
Polio and saas-bahu sammelans
I came across this intriguing article when I was searching for something else on the net (oh the joys of google serendipity!) – to be honest, it was the title that caught my attention initially…. The power of saas-bahu. Eh, what is prime time star plus (the television channel that made saas-bahu the buzzword in… Continue reading Polio and saas-bahu sammelans