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"All these brave young men noticed that there was a braver girl. And this is dangerous"

"When she qualified in the police service all hell broke loose" -- That recollection by her mentor and former Delhi Police cop Gautam Kaul pretty much defines Kiran Bedi's journey. This citation for her 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service- ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kiran Bedi,  Ramon Magsaysay,  United Nations

The pain of being Pakistan: An update on the terror war's third front

Much as we would like to believe that the long-drawn West Asian wars will end soon, the fact is that the U.S. now has a third front to its war on terror: Pakistan. And the Pakistan front is likely to be open for a long time. As a Taliban spokesperson ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John Kerry,  U.S. Republican Party

Western expats blog Eastern experience

The "immigrant experience"  is a phrase I usually associate with the U.S., what with people from across the world streaming in here everyday. A travelogue is what I'd associate with literature by foreigners from India. But the blogosphere is telling a ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  29 Oct 2009

India's monsoon disaster and climate change

The crisis this monsoon season -- critical to India's agricultural sector that accounts for a fifth of the country's GDP -- was backbreaking, exposing our lackluster agro sector that feeds an entire nation except those who toil for it; our dependency ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Shahrukh Khan,  Newsweek,  The Economist

Gay couples join fasting tradition

Now the community is working toward social acceptance: they are joining in to observe traditional festivals until now the prerogative of heterosexual couples. As we discussed in earlier posts, the ruling -- if it stands in the apex court -- will only ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood

Disaster zone: Quakes, tsunami, flooding devastate Pacific region

The first to hit the region was a 8-magnitude earthquake early Tuesday local time in the south Pacific between the Samoan and the American Samoan islands (just northeast of Australia). That triggered a tsunami that flattened swaths of villages in both ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  1 Oct 2009

Why does urban India still need no-men zones?

Talk to any Indian woman about travel and transportation in India, and she will have a story to tell; of cat-calls, bottom pinches, lewd gestures and remarks, molestation -- everything that can make living or traveling by yourself feel like a risky ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sonia Gandhi

Aging India's dilemma in a nuclear society

The NRI* parent: This Outlook magazine story about parents who moved to join their children abroad tells a sad story of confinement, dependence, alienation, helplessness and abuse, something that goes largely unreported [*NRI or Non-resident Indian is ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Susan Boyle

Can Sri Lankan media regain its freedom?

Sri Lanka's uneasy peace after ending a 25-year-old civil insurgency and brutally crushing the separatist group LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) earlier this year, is being put to a new test by its fettered media. As we had discussed earlier, the ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  11 Sep 2009

India's Got Talent draws out class acts

A brilliantly choreographed performance by a group of boys drawn from daily wage laborers -- two of them stricken by polio -- all hailing from a small town in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, took top honors at the first ever show of India's Got ...

From SNIGDHASEN, BlogHer,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Shekhar Kapur,  Bollywood

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