Becky Blab

Just got back from a visit to a village outside of Bikaner, where my mother-in-law’s family is from. In the middle of the desert, but still filled with life. We visited local ponds, schools that the family had built (and of which my husband’s grandfather is very proud), ate watermelons and other produce from the [...]

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The Jaipur Times today has an article called ‘Penning their way to freedom’:
Determined to find their own expression, women in Jaipur are increasingly taking up writing as a serious pursuit. Despite cultural challenges and family responsibilities, they are living their passion as successful authors. Today, most of them have to their credit, several books on [...]

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This one’s been making the rounds, but I found it here.

We lost ourselves the day we were born
Since then the search began
To find those of our family

We were confused
For we were given a family of birth
We had friends from our situation
In this funny place called “society”
We travelled
And felt the semblance of the primeval sensation [...]

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Some new research featured in the NYT on the gender gap contends counterintuitively that more traditional societies have smaller gender differences than modern ones.
For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going in [...]

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Many refer to it as ‘nature’s curse on women’. It’s commonly thought of as unclean. In some cultures, women are not even allowed to cook during those days of month. But, path-breaking new research could change the way people view the menstrual cycle. And it’s here in India, for the first time ever. The blood [...]

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