Indian Express has an Independence day special series – India explained, India empowered. The series was flagged off by an article by the President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam. The focus of the President’s note is “Empowering Rural India”- and is titled – India Empowered to me is Knowledge taking roots in the village. Read the full… Continue reading Leapfrogging empowerment and development
Category: Society & Development
Women’s rights, rural development, ICTs…
“Beauty and the bleach”
Remember my post All is fair in the fairness game ? Patricia had left a comment on it remarking on how the ‘ethnic look’ – Latina, Philippina, African American was popular in the United States. We have a friend who was born in India and grew up in the States wishing she had fairer skin.… Continue reading “Beauty and the bleach”
Conspiracy theory and birth control
Time has an interesting piece on Conspiracy Theory and Birth Control . This says that a recent research (500 African-Americans between the ages of 15 and 44) found that one third believe medical researchers use blacks as guinea pigs for unproven forms of contraception. About 25% believe that “poor and minority women are sometimes forced… Continue reading Conspiracy theory and birth control
Is UP ready for AIDS?
In an earlier post Reining in the spread of AIDS, I had written about the surprising and rather unbelievable finding thrown up by the annual AIDS survey. Only 28,000 new infections were reported in 2004, compared to 6 lakh in 2003. My hypothesis then was that reported cases of AIDS were on the decline –… Continue reading Is UP ready for AIDS?
Ideal wives – a follow up
It was just a minor detail I could not understand that kept me awake all night (fortunately, there is no specified time for thinking – maybe because the master did not associate ‘thinking’ with women – notice, a sharp mind is not one of the womanly ornaments) – this whole sex business between midnight and… Continue reading Ideal wives – a follow up
Schooled to be ideal wives
What a perfect start a dreary Monday morning – this post from Uma where she says there is hope for her yet. Ho to the wide open spaces of Bhopal. I had blogged about this a long time ago – here it is for your Monday morning amusement – I cannot find the original link… Continue reading Schooled to be ideal wives
Father / husband’s name
I bought a new mobile phone from the Reliance outlet (upgradation – so I can take pics from my mobile phone and so on – ahem). And had to fill out a longish form before they handed over the new handset to me. Among the interesting personal details they (reliance ? government?) wanted to know… Continue reading Father / husband’s name
The third pillar of development
In response to my recent post ‘the long ride to freedom‘, Michael Higgins says that he would be more comfortable if such work were to be done by an NGO. I have always been uncomfortable with the government versus non governmental debate – in fact, I do not think of it as a ‘versus‘ issue… Continue reading The third pillar of development
The long ride to freedom
Yesterday’s HT had a small piece on how the Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalitha was distributing free bicycles to school children in rural areas of the state. This was to encourage them to continue school and not drop out – earlier it was found that girls from backward communities who had been given free bicycles under… Continue reading The long ride to freedom
The education “system”
Update: Came across this very interesting piece on Robert Paterson’s blog. It ends with In short: As connectedness transforms knowledge, our education system is swinging–running–in the other direction. Do read it fully – Robert has linked to the original piece by David Weinberger there on his post. Found two pieces of writing on the education… Continue reading The education “system”