A self-help kit for women@work (India Daily)
The rape and murder of 24-year old Prathibha Srikanth Murthy, working in a Bangalore-based call centre on December 15, 2005, has sent shock waves across the ITeS industry and the country. The incident showed that women are not safe any where, more so on the mean streets of India.
FROM THE SELF-HELP SHELF (The Plain Dealer)
(Southern Methodist University Press, $22.50) by Dorothy Wall. "Illness," Wall begins, "is indeed a country apart, one that most will someday visit. To be seriously ill is to inhabit a world radically different from that of the healthy."
Illinois seeking self-improvement (Peoria Journal Star)
Complete local and regional sports coverage from central Illinois, including the Peoria Rivermen, Peoria Chiefs, Bradley University, Illinois State, Western Illinois, University of Illinois, Big Ten, Missouri Valley, Mid-State 6, Mid-Illini and 60 area high schools
Self help groups gear up to combat rural poverty (The Economic Times)
MUMBAI: Raisen, Madhya Pradhesh, is a far cry from the ?we-have-arrived? India. It takes a good hour?s drive from Bhopal ? most of it on a bumpy, single lane road ? to get to the first of the villages in Raisen district. Most of the hamlets here are a picture of abject poverty.
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