What does underprivileged, marginalized etc., mean? You could read tomes on the subject and still not understand it. Caitie manages to convey in a short post on poor Merasi children in Rajasthan a sense of what it means:
So what is, say, five minutes in India? The literalist in me, which disembarks from the plane starry-eyed [...]
Archive for October 5th, 2008
A puppet controlled by sixteen puppeteers
Published by October 5th, 2008 in Caste, Children, Education and Poverty. 0 CommentsCute furry animals and serious violence
Published by October 5th, 2008 in Children and Television. 0 CommentsAishwarya revisits an old TV show she had liked as a child:
And one of the things I kept wondering as I watched was, how did I survive this series growing up? There’s violence and blood and death (and not the Tom and Jerry sort, where bodies magically reconstitute themselves, this is violence with emotional consequences) [...]
‘Tata bye bye’
Published by October 5th, 2008 in Activism, Democracy, Development and Politics. 0 CommentsRama believes ‘the Tata pullout is good news, for a number of reasons’:
First, a resounding slap has been administered on the face of the CPI(M). In May 2006, riding high on a wave of media hype and puff, the party had declared that Tata’s Nano unit was going to be located in West Bengal. In [...]
The attraction spreads beyond the borders. Sangam gives us a little view of the American Dream in Nepal:
Even people in Nepal have their own little American Dream where they aim to go to America someday for a better education and a better life. America to Nepalese is synonymous to opportunity, success and wealth. We view [...]
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