tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 08 2008 | India, government, women, health
How awful and completely unacceptable!!! Ahh...I can't believe my country still does this. I hope this government intervention works...But the foundation of the problem isn't being dealt with, and that is: girls are valued less compared to boys. Unless we aim to change negative social stigma about the value of women, that they are more than just a way of lessening burden once married off, we can't just pay people off. This is ridiculous. We need to redirect focus on educating women, and educating the public against things like dowries and required domesticities of women (especially in the rural areas).
Quoted: By the time you finish reading this story, 10 more female fetuses in India will have been aborted. Aborted by a medical profession that profits ...
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | travel, government, India
Quoted: A long-brewing separatist movement in the Darjeeling hills had, until recently, receded into the past so thoroughly that it became fodder for fiction, setting the ...
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | government, architecture, India
haha.
Quoted: The ultrafunctional tables and chairs in the city offices in Chandigarh, India, have made their way from the junkyard to art auctions in Paris and New York.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2008 | India, government, health, policy
Quoted: India has some of the hardest-working bureaucrats in the world, but its administration has an abysmal record of serving the public
ShareViewed: 17 Times - tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 25 2007 | government, business, India, society
great article...mumbai--the city of dreams indeed for millions, rich and poor.
Quoted: The residents of Dharavi, allegedly Asia's biggest slum, are thriving in hardship
ShareViewed: 3 Times - tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | news, government, India
ah yes...bureaucracy... the inefficient yet effective tool of democracies to appease the masses of contenders. A panel WILL be set up...will any work get done? Will the land reforms *actually* happen? probably not...something tells me this march will reconvene in about ten years...with the same demands.
Quoted: The Indian government says it will set up a panel on land reform to meet the demands of landless farmers and indigenous people.
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 28 2007 | government, news, India
this is sad what's happening to these people's lands. after all, farmers haven't moved into the realm of portable wealth, and all their valued wealth lies in land/property. the dichotomy of modernization and land reform. glad to see at least they're keeping Gandhi's non-violence movement alive! worn through 3-pairs of flip flops!
Quoted: Thousands of peasants marched more than 200 miles to New Delhi demanding land reform.
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