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Modern Woman Takes to Crime in India

Carolyn O'Donnell | Posted 01.08.2013 | Books
Read More: India, Police, Crime, Drop Dead, Himachal Pradesh, Niki Marwah, Swati Kaushal, Shimla, Hachette, Kiran Bedi, Books News
Carolyn O'Donnell

As a bonus, all those secluded ravines and valleys in the foothills of the Himalayas are great places for hiding corpses. On a recent trip there I didn't see any bodies, but if Swati Kaushal has her way the place will be littered with victims.

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Anna Hazare: Savior or Destroyer of Democracy?

Rio Helmi | Posted 11.07.2011 | World
Read More: Dalits, Corruption in India, Anna Hazare, Kiran Bedi, Indian Democracy, Jan Lokpal Bill, Team Anna, World News
Rio Helmi

It is impossible to ignore the deep psychological need of most Indians, indeed most Asians, to follow a charismatic leader -- institutional or not -- imbued with real or imaginary spiritual qualities.

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To the Mahatma, From a Stateless Indian

Dinkar Jain | Posted 08.28.2011 | World
Read More: Corruption, Kapil Sibal, Washington, Bribes, Anna Hazare, Dc, Subcontinent, Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Kiran Bedi, Black Money, Ramdev, Colonialism, Simon Commission, British Raj, Congress, Democracy, Indian Embassy, Anna, Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, Stateless Indian, Binayak Sen, Civil Activism, Protests, British, India, Pranab Mukherjee, Gandhian, Hazare, Chidambram, Kiran, Sibal, Bedi, World News
Dinkar Jain

2nd April, 2011 Dear Mahatma Today I witnessed the Indian team lift the cricket world cup for the first time in my life. I have never felt so proud. ...

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A Report from Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit - Part 1

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Vital Voices, Leymah Gbowee, Rare, Human Slavery, Goldman Sachs 10, Bank of America, Liberia, Sex Trafficking, Women in the World Conference, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marie Brenner, Diane Sawyer, Frances Townsend, Campbell Brown, Madeleine Albright, Human Trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, 000 Women, Christiane Amanpour, Exxonmobil, The Daily Beast, Denis Mukwege, Rape in the Congo, Sexual Violence, Michelle Obama, Kiran Bedi, Tina Brown, Seven, Conrad Hilton Foundation, Archie Panjabi, Hp, Women in Afghanistand and Pakistan, Fatima Bhutto, Erica Jong, Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, Lesley Stahl, Julie Taymor, Hillary Clinton, Gayle Lemmon, Rape as a Weapon of War, World News
Marcia G. Yerman

At the Daily Beast's "Women in the World" conference last weekend the theme repeated and over was that "women's rights may exist on the books and in the law, but not on the street."

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