Monday, November 24, 2008

Why toilets matter

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Another toilet story that should have been posted earlier but got overlooked. Here's the link to the original: http://www.infochangeind...
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The toilet test

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Posting this article now. I've just attended Sacosan III, the South Asian Sanitation Conference. Despite the importance of the subject...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Faceless Citizens

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, November 16, 2008 The Other Half Every alternate day, for as long as I can remember, a vendor selling vegetables...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

Going public

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The Hindu, November 2, 2008 Sunday Magazine THE OTHER HALF On Friday, October 24, a nun from Orissa did something incredibly brave...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Crime and the media

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Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan has once again reminded the media about its role in reporting crime and on-going investigations. ...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Breaking the silence

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, October 19, 2008 THE OTHER HALF Breaking the silence The economy is in meltdown mode and our political parties a...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

No lessons being learnt

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DNA, Mumbai, October 16, 2008 In Loharpura village, Nawada district, south Bihar, over 500 children crowd into half a dozen classrooms in un...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

Corruption’s real victims

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The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, Oct 5, 2008 THE OTHER HALF She sat on her haunches. Her face was lined by a hundred years of worry. Saras...
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...