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Meera Masi For Curious Kids
Sisters found publishing company offering children's stories in Indian languages. -
Just Ghee Happy
Pixar's Sanjay Patel publishes new book. -
Two Years Later
Lanterns over Andaman Sea in tribute to tsunami victims. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom Two years ago, one of the most powerful earthquakes recorded triggered giant waves that destroyed villages in several nations along the Indian Ocean shores and took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. On Tuesday people in the affected areas marked the tsunami’s second [...] -
Swing Batter-Batter
Babu/Reuters You knew he could swing a racket, but a cricket bat? Roger Federer spent yesterday 100 miles south of Chennai, playing a few rounds of cricket with the displaced children of the Pudupettai rehabilitation colony. The children have been homeless since the tsunami hit on December 26, 2004. The tsunami-death toll stands at just under 300,000 [...] -
Governor’s Family Grows
Photo credit: Daniel Fuhr, Governor’s Office Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is back from India, where he and wife Mary Kaye finalized their adoption of baby Asha. Asha spent the first year of her life at the Matru Chhaya orphanage in Nadiad (near Ahmadabad in Gujarat) and now joins her six new siblings in Salt Lake City. [...] -
Where My Girls At?
Associated Press A report, released today by UNICEF, says an astounding 7,000 girls go unborn in India each day. The abortion of female fetuses is being blamed for what is a clear gender-ratio imbalance: today roughly 800 girls are born for every 1,000 boys. According to the Associated Press, “The spread of ultrasound technology allowing parents [...] -
Women Weigh In On Diwali Barbie
Did Mattel get the Diwali Barbie right? Earlier this month, PRI’s The World interviewed Sepia Mutiny’s Anna John, fellow sagehen (chirp!) and blogger Nina Jacinto, novelist/poet Chitra Divakaruni and Professor Inderpal Grewal about one of Mattel’s newest additions to its Barbie line. You can still listen to the report online at The World’s web site. I agree [...] -
Bulay Bulay: Do It For The Kids
Click here for more details. Voted one of the top five nights for dancehall, dub and worldly beats by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Non Stop Bhangra is a collective of DJs, dancers and dhol players who produce local events bringing bhangra to the Bay area. Project Ahimsa is a non-profit bringing music teachers and instruments [...] -
Mumbai New Malibu?
She has reinvented herself more times than Madonna. Over the past 40 years we’ve seen her become a doctor, a Malibu beach babe–even a Unicef ambassador. But it’s her latest incarnation that has really got our attention. We’re talking about Barbie, of course—Mattell’s plastic sensation that earns the company an astounding three billion dollars in sales each year. [...] -
Child Labor in India and Anita’s Story
According to India’s labour ministry, “there are 12.6 million children aged between 5 and 14 working in the country — the largest number of child labourers in the world.” The real number could be higher, given the unknown size of the child domestic work force. “‘It’s difficult to say how many children do domestic work as [...]