Chhaya Path

Power is Money and Money is Power?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:54:00 +0000

Paid Work. Photo Courtesy: Commonwealth Foundation The road to equality in rights, in ability to exercise those rights, and in being able to obtain redress when rights are violated is a...

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Dressed to Get Raped, They Said.

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:43:00 +0000

He said that the ‘others’ say that when women dress ‘fashionably’, they incite the onlookers. He further added that if what the ‘others’ say were not true, why the schools and colleges would stop...

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Define freedom!

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:11:00 +0000

You, the owner of a free will, have chosen to struggle. You are the possessor of moral might. You snatched away the mask of benignity that the power-holders wore. You are reciting. You are...

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F I R E

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Seething - Suppressed Fermented Turmoil took over the streets "The Arab Spring" ...

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Equality in Corruption: A Myth or A Reality?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Photo: The Hindu I have often heard that corruption:(1) treats people equally, woman or man, (2) hits all poor equally, woman or man, (3) does not discriminate between poor of the minority or...

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Idiosyncratics

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:43:00 +0000

I have not reached here alone Walking the path of reason I carried a baggage A load that prevails over the idioms of sanity I journeyed along passion Delighting in pain and anger I have been...

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Leadership Crises, are they?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:34:00 +0000

The Dominique Strauss-Kahn saga has left the International Monetary Fund (IMF) preparing for a new leadership by this month. The list of candidates is not long but there is a list. There was a rumour...

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Glance

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:57:00 +0000

The Not-So-Easy-to-See Frescoes at the Citadel of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. 500 painting of women wiped out when the citadel became a monastery (again) so that they would not disturb...

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Migrant Women Workers

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Image: MS Office Migration ceased to be a venture of a select few looking for better avenues long time back. One can safely say that since medieval period it has become a compulsion for farm...

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The Opiates Business

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:09:00 +0000

UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011 Afghanistan remains a major producer and the hub of drug business extending into Iran, Central Asia and Pakistan. Given Pakistan’s geo-political location, the...

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We Live in a World of Ineffective Efforts; Well, Most of the Time!

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:58:00 +0000

Union Carbide Gas Leak on the night of the 2nd and 3rd of Dec 1984 in Bhopal, was perhaps, the worst industrial disaster in the human history. 25 years on, the survivors are still denied...

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Flights

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:12:00 +0000

In a yet another ‘new’ place Sense of being tied down to nothingness remains Roving freely into unknown lanes Searching for a place to sleep sound, I stare A desire to be obscure stays Deepened...

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The Usual Story

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:51:00 +0000

In the continuum of life and death, power in the fraternal order is mandatory Blood ties draw blood from blood ties, forcing submission ordering conformity The design of an active will, depends...

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Why Marriage?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:56:00 +0000

Some years back, we faced this question in a development course. Two of the discussants divided the question into two: Why Women marry? Why men marry? One of them kept the discussion to the basic...

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Which is Bigger Evil, Corruption or Communalism?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:08:00 +0000

1) Which one needs to be addressed first? 2) Do they have any overlaps? 3) What do you think? Corruption affects common people on a daily basis. It affects the poor in the worse...

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Are you listening, respectable Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ji?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:49:00 +0000

Don't be a Spooked Buck, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ji. Let me start afresh as if born again; erase memory as if nothing ever existed; and grow up right as if there are no strictures. These have...

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Human Rights-based approach to MDGs

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:48:00 +0000

Are human rights and development two separate approaches or can they be used complimentarily? In context of women’s human rights and development, my view is that human rights approach is essential...

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energy

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:13:00 +0000

the sound from the laptop dims and another grows louder – a faint whirlish whoosh it’s a spinning wheel set on a torso weaving. the stories exaggerate the imprints she stamps her foot and...

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Memories of the IWD

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:03:00 +0000

In the world of abbreviations and short names, among many other things that the IWD may mean, it also means the International Women’s Day. I didn’t know much about the IWD till about 17-18...

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A Matter of Opportunity and Access … ?

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:58:00 +0000

Would corruption ever become a thing of museums? Quite unlikely ... I believed and though somewhat cynical now, still tend to believe that corruption and women have some...

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Ego

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:49:00 +0000

The surface of emotions Aligned with ego and formed An intricate organ Without the outline of a body. Yet, powerful with agency to manoeuvre The inner workings clear yet...

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Fears That Consume Our Lives

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:04:00 +0000

We are humans after all and it is all right to be afraid but afraid of things that we need to be afraid of. Why is it that most of us try to lead or chart our lives in a manner that seems value-laden...

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The 6th of the February: A Day of Zero Tolerance

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:28:00 +0000

International Day of Zero Tolerance of FGM The proprietors of passionWage a war to conquer lustOpen in an understandingThe source of unquenchable bodily...

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Going Through Death to Give Birth

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:26:00 +0000

Seventeen years old and visiting a doctor for the first time in her life, Amira, married a few months back, finds out that she is pregnant. She remembers that about two years back, the health worker...

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Farmers Without Land

mirzachhotoo@hotmail.com (nisha) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Nearly 80 percent of Yemeni women who work outside their homes are engaged in agriculture. Of these nearly 65 percent are engaged in unpaid work at their family farms or on land leased by their...

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Links for 2010-09-25 [Digg]

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

छाया पथ Chhaya Path: From ‘Let your Father Come …' and ‘Let Your Son Come …’ to ‘Let My Brother Come … ’ and ‘Let My Son Come …’
Experiences of these women established (not suggest) that violence against women and girls and poverty among women is an ‘engaged relationship’.

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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

छाया पथ Chhaya Path: Women Crossing Borders

Links for 2009-12-12 [Digg]

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PST

Up in the Air in Somalia
Check out Up in the Air in Somalia at http://chhayapath.blogspot.com/2009/12/airborne-in-somalia.html

Links for 2009-12-11 [Digg]

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PST

The Education Catch
The Education Catch: A mind game or an economic game at http://chhayapath.blogspot.com/2009/12/education-catch.html

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PST

Violence in Religion or Violence with Religion?
Check out Violence in Religion or Violence with Religion? at http://chhayapath.blogspot.com/2009/12/violence-in-religion-or-violence-with.html

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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 PST

Globalization of Withering Weather, Dwindling Economies
The number of natural disasters and human-made disasters seem to be increasing manifold, each new year. Humanitarian response organizations are pointing out to the alarming ‘trend’ of increasing unpredictability of weather and seasons and to the fact that these are aggravated by climate change.

Links for 2009-11-20 [Digg]

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

nisha: Demand accountability of the governments to women and
It has been 15 years since the member states of the UN adopted the Beijing Platform for Action