Wednesday, September 07, 2005
From sex workers to beauticians
Diana is beautiful. So beautiful that winning a beauty pageant should be easy. She was recently offered a role in a promotional film by TAI (Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative), an NGO working on the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Diana, 22, plays a contestant at a Miss Chennai pageant. She leads the race until the last round, where she has to answer some questions. Her answers, however, shock judges as well as the audience. They don't know how to react, because Diana speaks in a male voice.
Read More.. (in Rediff.com, Sep 02, 2005, Shobha Warrier)
Diana, 22, plays a contestant at a Miss Chennai pageant. She leads the race until the last round, where she has to answer some questions. Her answers, however, shock judges as well as the audience. They don't know how to react, because Diana speaks in a male voice.
Read More.. (in Rediff.com, Sep 02, 2005, Shobha Warrier)
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Muscles wither away, but not smiles
These days Sanjana Goel is working hard to launch disabled-friendly resorts and 25 diagnostic centres spread across the country, at a cost of Rs 1 crore each.
The 40-year-old founder president of the Indian Association of Muscular Dystrophy (IAMD)-with 10 chapters and 2,500 members-is widely credited with bringing muscular dystropy (MD) out of the closet. All from Solan, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, best known for its breweries and Salman Rushdie's ancestral home.
Read more.. (In The Indian Express, Sep 5, 2005)
The 40-year-old founder president of the Indian Association of Muscular Dystrophy (IAMD)-with 10 chapters and 2,500 members-is widely credited with bringing muscular dystropy (MD) out of the closet. All from Solan, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, best known for its breweries and Salman Rushdie's ancestral home.
Read more.. (In The Indian Express, Sep 5, 2005)
Friday, September 02, 2005
In Maharashtra dark zone, village lights up
Come sunset and Nandurbar's Satpuda ranges, among Maharashtra's poorest swathes and non-existent for the state's power grid, begin their sink into a deathly darkness.
The only exception-the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada's tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai's Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
Read more.. (in The Indian Express, Sep 02, 2005)
The only exception-the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada's tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai's Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
Read more.. (in The Indian Express, Sep 02, 2005)
