A lot of good reads I’ve come across recently. Enjoy the following! So you’re helping people with no skills…? Daniela Papi nicely destroys the rhetoric about poor people having no skills. Marianne Elliott has a beautiful series of posts chronicling her current journeys, re-visiting Afghanistan. A beautiful piece of writing by Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing,…
Happy Saturday everyone (and St. Patrick’s Day)! Here in the east coast, the weather is beautiful and life is good. Enjoy these links this weekend: Do Farm Workers from Developing Countries Take Jobs from Americans? A good analysis shows the answer is no. VAWA Is Not Enough: Academics Speak Out About VAWA Lubanga Found Guilty by…
I’ve had some time this weekend to read a lot and catch up on social media. Still, things these days move too fast even for me. I constantly feel like I’m missing out on interesting links being posted or fascinating discussions happening on Twitter. I barely have time to finish reading something (forget absorbing/analysing everything…
As the end of the year is rapidly approaching, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite posts on this blog over the past year. This will be a little mix of the most popular, most commented, and my personal favorites! I found it a bit hard to narrow down the posts, so here’s a…
I haven’t been writing as much lately, but I’ve kept reading. Here are a few links I’ve loved lately: Listening to the voices of the poor: Michael Matergia, America India Foundation fellow, writes eloquently: “So much time is consumed generating documents filled with useless jargon such as “community mobilization,” “sustainability” and “capacity building.” Meetings focus…
First of all, I want to thank Makafui, a fellow blogger over at “That African Girl,” for featuring an interview with me! I enjoyed writing about what got me started blogging and my views on culture, women’s rights, and feminism. Please click here to read the interview. Thanks, Mak! Second of all, today is 9/11…
There has been a lot going on in the world recently, though I somehow feel disconnected from it all this time around. More on that later. But for now, please enjoy the following links: Bombs over Bombay, again – My heart breaks and goes out to all those affected by the latest bomb blasts in…
After taking a bit of a break from social media this weekend and returning to the real world with lots on my plate, I can hardly keep track of the craziness happening in Libya and the Middle East today. Catch up on the news through the following articles and links, very worth reading: On the…
This link-post will be heavily focused on gender-based and women’s issues. I’ve found AWID to be an incredible source of news and resources related to international women’s rights. Be sure to sign up for their news wire! The Good the Bad and the Ugly: A good critique of the Girl Store, a poorly thought out…
In India, a right-to-know law comes with risks: I’ve written about the Right to Information Act before, praising the positive impact it has made in preventing and reducing corruption in India. However, some activists who have made it a point to challenge corruption and collusion between politicians and big-money businesses have been attacked. About a…
