We are almost a decade into the twenty first century. But it's still common to hear our domestic helps in India lament about how unlucky she is for being burdened with daughters. Stories on victims of dowry abuse and female infanticide still appear in the News. While one side of India proudly churns out women engineers and entrepreneurs, the other side still struggles, battling against age-old superstitious and irrelevant social stigmas that continue to negatively bolster the already strong patriarchal society.
"Roger, the self-appointed captain of the lifeboat, proclaimed, "This boat can hold twenty people, and there are only twelve of us on the boat, and we have plenty of rations to last us till the rescue team arrives, which won't be more than 24 hours.
We are excited to report the progress made on the Oorani Project – the rain-water harvesting project that Anand Charity is implementing with the help of the Dhan foundation.
We obtained the following information through a recent conversation with the coordinator at Alidabad:
