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Nepali Women – Caught in a Terrible Vortex

Dhankumari © Murali Krishnan

Dhankumari © Murali Krishnan

Dhankumari, 57, lost her belongings and livestock in the killer earthquake that shattered her home on April 25. After the next tremor on May 12, she is even more worried. She is only one of many. Thousands of women and children are affected by Nepal’s devastating earthquake and do not know how to continue with their lives. Relief workers warn of the threat posed to these women by sex traffickers.

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29.05.2015 | 13:51

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Braving the deluge in Kashmir

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A month after flood waters battered the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, the magnitude of the tragedy is slowly unfolding. Bigger worries of death and disease still haunt the area in the aftermath of the worst crisis to have hit the region in the last six decades. Murali Krishnan visited the inundated areas in India-administered Kashmir and brought back some pictures and stories of brave women.

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08.10.2014 | 12:26

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Women entrepreneurs in ‘paradise’

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Pashmina queen Shaheena Akhtar

Kashmiri women entrepreneurs have made a mark for themselves in a region which has been riddled with conflict, death and destruction for over two decades.

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10.06.2014 | 12:20

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‘They treat us like aliens’

‘Transgender’ in India usually signifies a person who does not identify with the gender he or she was born with. Often, the so-called “third gender” is maligned and discriminated against by the Indian mainstream. Women Talk Online blogger Murali Krishnan spoke to five transgenders at an event in New Delhi and asked them about their expectations from the upcoming general elections and Indian society in general.

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26.03.2014 | 11:40

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A splash of color to break free

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It was an eye-opener to return to Vrindavan, a holy and dusty town in northern India steeped in the lore of Lord Krishna. For years, this town, christened the ‘city of widows’ has been the home of women from many parts of the country’s rural hinterland, particularly from West Bengal.

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19.03.2014 | 11:33

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Many voices, many stories

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A still from Sumathy Sivamohan’s “Ingrinthu” or Here and now about the minority Tamil tea plantation community in Sri Lanka

The setting and even the timing was appropriate as women film makers from a range of genres, fiction, non-fiction, animation and television features, gathered in the Indian capital New Delhi to showcase and share their works. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, many talented filmmakers from 15 countries were happy to be back.

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10.03.2014 | 23:30

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Vaginas ‘more feared than plutonium’

A year after the fatal gang rape of a young medical student in New Delhi, Indians have started addressing sexual violence more openly; others should take a cue from the country, says Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler.

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25.12.2013 | 14:39

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