India gets a cheerleading squad...

Quoted: How paradoxical, and delightful, that Bangalore, a city that has leapt to global prominence on the back of work outsourced by America, is now itself outsourcing from America. On Sunday, a team of Washington Redskins cheerleaders landed in Bangalore to help create India’s first cheerleading squad.

This article is interesting and encouraging. But I think it puts too much emphasis on TV's influence and doesn't acknowledge that attitudes towards women would already have to be changing for people to embrace rather than reject these new values. I also think more of these articles should look beyond education as a cure-all, and talk about the organizations helping both rural and urban women to become earners, empowering them economically.

Quoted: For millions of women in developing countries, the benefits of TV may be substantive, not frothy.

Apparently she was deemed "anti-Islam" for promoting women's rights through the Quran.

Quoted: Dozens of Muslim protesters led by three lawmakers attacked an exiled Bangladeshi writer at the release of her book in southern India on Thursday, calling her “anti-Islam,” and telling her to go back to her country.

Very sad... Apparently many of these women aren't aware of government policies designed to help them.

Quoted: More and more bereaved Hindu wives are seeking refuge in India's "city of widows" says a report. The study, funded by the UN women's organisation Unifem, found it was poverty, not spirituality, driving women to Vrindavan.

Sonia Gandhi's trying to make this a victory for gender equality, but it sounds like Patil's creds might be questionable...

Quoted: Pratibha Patil, who is likely to be elected India’s first female president on Thursday, has faced vitriolic attacks.