International Political Will

If ever there was a symbol of the conflict between female education and tradition in Central and South Asia, this was it.
One of my students from the slums of Mumbai (where full black burqas are not uncommon), 15-year-old “Sally” takes the train to school everyday. Her parents had no idea that she was secretly meeting [...]

Outside of a western-style shopping mall in Mumbai on a warm December afternoon, a typical middle-class Indian woman stops and digs into her purse for her camera.
Her grandmother stands at the steps of the entrance in a daze. Her thick glasses are perched on her nose, and her weathered skin reveals a lifetime of [...]