Word: nirvana
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...hangs over Shame like a doting parent. As Sanghera notes, nobody really knows how many young people in Britain are pressured into matches they don't want. The British government's Forced Marriage Unit deals with more than 250 cases a year, but Sanghera's group, Derby-based Karma Nirvana, alone takes on seven new ones a week. Police in Britain are investigating scores of suspected "honor killings" of women resisting arranged marriages. Tellingly, the suicide rate among young South Asian females is three times the national average...
...when an older sister burns herself to death to escape an abusive marriage, Sanghera begins to realize the toll that custom and oppression are taking on Asian women. While raising children alone and pursuing a college degree on virtually no money, she launches Karma Nirvana (from Sanskrit words connoting action and enlightenment) in a spare room at a Derby women's shelter...
...against forcing someone to marry. A Liberal-Democrat member of the House of Lords introduced a bill to curb the practice by civil means. It was debated on Jan. 26 but has little chance of becoming law without government support. Sanghera intends to expand Karma Nirvana, eventually to Scotland and Wales, and dreams of a "national network of friendship for women like me, women who are alone. We will send them birthday cards." As Sanghera has learned from the tumultuous life described in Shame, there is more than one kind of family...
...dragon was the world. But the world is a dragon.That’s BAWLS.I drink a BAWLS to get crazy; I drink it to take a nap.I drink a BAWLS for glory; I drink it when I take a crap.I will drink a BAWLS to achieve nirvana. I have drunken a BAWLS to achieve nirvana.I understand there are those out there who doubt me. They exist as naysayers, who would dare contend that BAWLS is nothing but a minor energy drink, too sweet for enjoyment, with guarana extract too mundane to have an effect.But do you know what guarana...
...Matisse would be in nirvana if his spirit could travel to Brisbane's revamped Queensland Art Gallery and neighboring new Gallery of Modern Art. Designed to face the river, creating a large lagoon of light inside, this $A100 million cultural complex succeeds by placing art at the service of the architecture, then ever so gently shifting our view of it. Nowhere can this be better seen than with the opening Asia-Pacific Triennial, where the arts of Oceania shine on center stage. Suva, Nuku'alofa, Apia and Avarua hardly announce themselves as capitals of the avant-garde...