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...clinics where there are two or three staff members on duty and some 20 to 30 expectant women during any one shift - it is not possible to wait 10 to 12 hours for any one case." That comment doesn't come from a jaded, overpaid male obstetrician, but from Manju Chhugani, a female lecturer at New Delhi's Jamia Hamdard faculty of nursing, the secretary of the local chapter of the Society of Midwives, and a healthcare professional who has organized seminars on natural childbirth...
...that so few cared about this tragic event. The Nepalese were working in war-ravaged Iraq so they could put food on the table for their families. If this had been a mass killing of 12 Americans, we would have heard about it for the next 12 months. Manju Gurung Hong Kong...
...done just right. If the goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved...
...woman hacked her three-year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared in their dreams promising hidden treasures. Karmakar killed Manju in Atapur village in Jharkhand state in April. The following month, police dug up the remains of two sisters, aged 18 and 13, in Bihar, dismembered with a ceremonial sword and offered to Kali by their father. Last week on the outskirts of Bombay, maize seller Anil Lakshmikant Singh, 33, beheaded...
Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, I became a prostitute." It is a choice being forced upon too many. Along the highway of cheap love that now circles the globe, the cost in destroyed lives has become a blight to rival...