Saturday, 4 September 2010

INDIA

LEE HAN SHIH
India is reeling from the discovery of a network of brokers and health workers dealing in kidneys.
LEE HAN SHIH
Some 1,100 years after Prince Siddhartha Gautama founded a philosophy in India, two monks in China created a fissure in his teachings that still affects the hundreds of millions of Buddhists today.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Twelve women burn to death per hour on average in India. Where does one begin to describe the terrible wrongs suffered by the country’s women?
RITA BANERJI
In December 2006, Rita Banerji began a campaign on the photo-sharing site Flickr. Called 50 Million Missing, it has one important message. Over the last 100 years, 50 million women have been systematically eliminated from the country's population.
RITA BANERJI
Roopa is a young married woman whose in-laws and husband tried to kill her by forcing her to drink acid, when her parents refused to pay them dowry.
FELICIA YAP
Modern medicine and dentistry owe a lot to ancient Asian practitioners.
HARESH RAMCHANDANI
The auction of Gandhi's possessions creates conflict, running counter to the spirit of the late man.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
The pontiff has shown that he is ill-advised to address the world's sex-related problems.
LEE HAN SHIH
Once enticed by the west, Indians who went to school and worked in the United States and Europe, are now lured back home by the surging Indian economy and its buoyant technology industry.
CLARISSA TAN
Canny art dealers are pouncing on Le Corbusier's legacy in Chandigarh, India at unbelievable prices.
KAVITA PILLAY
India’s practice of arranging marriages is pairing up happily with the World Wide Web.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
They are Bollywood's royalty and could have struck Hollywood stardom, too. Instead Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan both declined to appear in this year's biggest movie, “Slumdog Millionaire”. Did they miss out?