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...Gist: Sixteen of India's best known writers travel across the country to document and observe areas and communities that are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis - transgendered men and women of the "hijra" community; sex workers and their families in Mumbai; truckers who spend most of their lives on the road; the disaffected youth who have turned to injectable drugs; and homosexual men whose lifestyle is criminalized by Indian...
...system. In 1993, just over 10% of primary-school age village children were enrolled in private schools. By 2006, the figure had nearly doubled. A fifth of students between the ages of 6 and 7 cannot recognize letters and read words, according to an annual survey by Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO that tracks children's literacy across India in order to assess the efficiency of rural and government school education. Though Pratham's 2007 figures show an improvement, the figures are still grim - and don't bode well for a nation, half of whose one billion inhabitants are under...
...business.” “I want to feel confident that when I decide to start that business, I will have direction, and if surprises come up, I can handle them,” Derse said. Karthik Ranganathan, another recipient and a graduate of the University of Mumbai in 1999, worked as a research scientist at a company called PocketSonics, helping to create an easier-to-use ultrasound system. “The question I faced was how do I take a clunky $200,000 machine that isn’t very portable and make it into...
...markets that slower growth is a good thing - it might help get inflation under control - but the public isn't cheered. Opening this month is a new movie titled EMI, which stands for "equated monthly installments," an Indianism for an installment loan. The plot follows a thuggish Mumbai collection agent who, after hearing the touching stories of the people he is paid to intimidate, decides instead to help them resolve their crises by teaching them that more money isn't always the answer. "We made a film about the real problem that is facing the Indian consumer," says...
...Producers Association, argues that the demand that producers employ only union members stifles the industry's creativity. "They [the workers' union] want to restrict all creative freedom. How will I make a film if I can't decide which junior artist to employ? They're forcing producers to leave Mumbai and shoot elsewhere...