Becky Blab

From TOI: The UPA has chosen to ride on the memories of India’s first woman prime minister in declaring January 24 as the girl child day. Indira Gandhi had first taken over as PM on January 24, 1966. Women and child development joint secretary Kiran Chadha said the decision was taken by the Union Cabinet [...]

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The Washington Post had an in-depth piece on Indian women’s status. It starts off discussing ‘eve-teasing’, i.e. harrassment, but then delves into the whole range of issues from dowry to sex-selective abortion: For India’s middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men. But [...]

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This is a heartening story from the front page, to do away with all the stories of sex-selection and missing girls in Rajasthan: Benefactors wrote a new chapter in the history of the state infamous for female infanticides, when they saved the life of a seven-month-old baby girl. Yogita was brought back from the brink [...]

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