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    #MyChoice, Storytelling, And #OurOpinions

    • April 8, 2015
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    Deepika talks about #MyChoice and the stream of opinionated op-eds, articles, Facebook statuses, angry YouTube comments and comment wars begins. Everyone’s out to prove their point, as usual. Nobody really[…]

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    Ishita Malaviya: India’s First Female Pro Surfer on Safari

    • July 30, 2014
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    India’s first female professional surfer, Ishita Malaviya, recently came to California to visit friends, hang with the folks at Brown Girl Surf, and attend the San Diego Surf Film Festival.[…]

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    ‘My Body Is Not Your Battleground’ Explores What It Means to Be a South Asian Woman

    • May 16, 2014
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    My Body Is Not Your Battleground is a two-part photographic exploration of what it means to be a South Asian woman today, specifically in terms of identity, religion, education, employment[…]

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    Q&A With Amana Fontanella-Khan, Author of ‘Pink Sari Revolution’

    • October 17, 2013
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    The Gulabi Gang is an Indian women’s group of pink sari-wearing vigilantes who wield laathis (bamboo sticks) and tackle domestic abuse and other violence against women, in addition to other[…]

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    An Excerpt from ‘Pink Sari Revolution’ by Amana Fontanella-Khan

    • October 11, 2013
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    Amana Fontanella-Khan’s book Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India tells the story of Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang, a vigilante group of women and activists originally[…]

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    Hot News Mix: Lost Languages, Comparing Miss America and Miss Israel and More

    • October 1, 2013
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    India speaks 780 languages, 200 lost in last 50 years. Ganesh Devy supervised the People’s Linguistic Survey of India, the first comprehensive survey of Indian languages conducted in the last[…]

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    Has India’s Rape Culture Passed a Tipping Point?

    • September 10, 2013
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    Today an Indian court convicted four men accused of the rape of a 23-year old woman in New Delhi last December. Tomorrow, we find out whether or not the four men[…]

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    Needed: More Clones of Malala’s Dad

    • July 24, 2013
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    On July 12, Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani girl whom a Taliban militant shot in the head last October while she was riding home from school, stood before the United[…]

    Arts · Opinion

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    More Than a Piece of Tandoori Chicken: A Woman’s Worth in Hindi Cinema

    • July 18, 2013
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    Nearly 90 percent of all violent crimes reported in India are crimes against women. This year’s United Nations Human Development Report (PDF) suggests that with the exception of Afghanistan, India[…]

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    In a Twisted Way, Garment Factories Benefit Bangladeshi Women

    • June 11, 2013
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    In the wake of the tragic April 24 factory collapse in Bangladesh, the garment industry has come under fire for lax safety standards and weak protection of workers’ rights. These criticisms are[…]

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