Don’t Stereotype Us, Say Azamgarh’s Mothers
The women of Sanjarpur, the Azamgarh village with the terror tag attached to it, no longer laugh, dress up, or celebrate festivals with their earlier gusto.
Woman Poet Laureate: Duffy Joins Wordsworth And Co
More than three centuries after Britain appointed its first poet laureate to the royal court, the title has at last been given to a woman: Carol Ann Duffy.
Kenya: No Sex! First Set The Country Right
This may have had something to do with the fact that her political message was singularly focused on women's empowerment in an environment that genuflects to patriarchal ways.
Canada’s Little Tibet Holds On To Its Identity
It is a cold winter morning and Lakhpa Tsering is a few minutes late for work. Greeting waiting visitors with folded hands and a disarming smile, he offers them an apology and Indian style 'chai' (tea).
Italian Troops and Helicopters Committed to Afghanistan
In the Afghan province of Badghis, at Bala Murghab, Italian soldiers of the 183rd Regiment, Nembo Parachute Division, are fighting to break the pressure of the Taliban militia.
