Tufts Professor Ayesha Jalal recently spoke at the Lahore Literary Festival, at the session called Living with Internal Differences: The South Asian Dilemma. She exposed ideas such as nationality, but not to the extent of limiting diversity, and how education should not be affected by religious or political institutions. Click here to read more.
"Tehani, 8, Yemen. “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tehani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was 6 and he was 25. The young wife posed for a portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their home in Hajjah."
An effort to create a temple for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was recently scrapped, as the Prime Minister protested against such a practice. Supporters of the project believe him to be an "incarnation of God," but not an unusual claim as there is a practice of honoring politicians, celebrities and sports heroes with idols and temples in India. Click here to read more.
Only 12 percent of Indian women has access to basic menstrual sanitary napkins, often resorting to scraps of old saris or locally available goods such as plastics. Dilip Kumar, a 24 year old man, has moved to change this, by organizing information sessions and distributing sanitary napkins to this disadvantaged populace. Click here to read more.
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