Sunday, September 21, 2008

The art of not learning

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, September 22, 2008 The Other Half Even as we ponder the randomness of life and death as serial bomb blasts hit o...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

The medical emergency of the urban poor

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From InfoChange India, September 2008 By Kalpana Sharma A man who works as a driver in Mumbai discovered recently that his wife, who complai...
Monday, September 08, 2008

What women "deserve"

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Sept 6 2008 The Other Half Hillary Clinton has lost her chance to have a go at the U.S. Presidential stakes this...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Insidious intent

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Indian Express, Aug 30, 2008 The immediate crisis over Marathi signboards for all shops in Mumbai might have subsided with the intervention ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Changing men

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The Hindu, Sunday, August 24, 2008 The Other Half This has been a season of medals — gold, silver and bronze. Men and women, strong and beau...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Niketa's Choice

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, August 10, 2008 The Other Half Thanks to media interest, millions of people have had a direct peek into the...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Bad news for Maharashtra

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Here are some facts that appeared in different newspapers today, based on data from the National Family Health Survey -3, that remind of us ...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Why women?

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Here's something I wrote earlier this year that was never published. It incapsulates what I feel about the status of women in India tod...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Wrong priorities?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, July 27, 2008 The Other Half One out of every two persons in the world compelled to defecate in the open is...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Motif of violence

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The Hindu, Sunday, July 13, 2008 The Other Half Afghanistan is once again in the news with the horrific bombing of the Indian embassy in Kab...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Work matters

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, June 29, 2008 The Other Half In Aurangabad, Maharashtra, a group of women have taken on the challenging but diff...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Being Hillary

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I must add this note before I post this link to my column in The Hindu on Hillary Clinton. I got a huge response from readers, most of it p...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Diary of the displaced

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, June 1, 2008 The Other Half When a natural disaster, like an earthquake or a tsunami, destroys your home and lea...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Deleting girls

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 18, 2008 The Other Half Now, even Amitabh Bachchan is speaking up for the “girl child”. Or so I am told. At ...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Connecting to the Northeast

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 4, 2008 The Other Half You know you have left “mainland” India the moment you leave the outskirts of Guwahat...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Does reservation matter?

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 20, 2008 THE OTHER HALF Every year, for the last decade or so, around this time, noises are made on the is...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Let’s not forget

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, April 6, 2008 The Other Half Reams have been written in recent weeks about the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

And now the good news

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 23, 2008 The Other Half If you were a woman journalist, based in Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, what would b...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Sad Sunday

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 9, 2008 THE OTHER HALF Kalpana Sharma The euphoria over India’s achievements in the field of sports...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Facade of cosmopolitanism

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, March 2, 2008 Kalpana Sharma Amina presides over Dharavi’s Muslim Nagar like a monarch. She is the local ‘...