Growing up in Bangladesh, my family was always watching the news, and one of the things I really miss about living outside of America is the analysis of that you get with international news. In the States, the news is so much more dominated by talking heads who end up in shouting matches more than […]
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So much controversy has erupted over Gloria Steinem and fmr. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright’s apparent chiding of younger women voters that personally, I am annoyed by the story. And that is exactly what I said when I went on CNN with Democratic strategist, Hillary Rosen. Although the clip shows the part of the segment during which
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*This post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post.* Mark Zuckerberg and I are best friends. Well, at least that is what I would like to believe by the number of times he has been appearing on my Facebook newsfeed lately. Mixed in with my real life friends’ baby announcements, professional milestones, and kids’ birthday party pictures is news
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman:* As a child of Punjabi immigrants growing up in Buckinghamshire in the 1970s, Anjula Acharia-Bath was taunted with racist bullying from her peers. Now the founder of DesiHits! is a new partner at venture capital firm Trinity Ventures and a go-to for connecting Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* In the aftermath of the Charleston Shootings, which killed nine churchgoers in South Carolina, there has been so much discussion around whether the incident can be labeled an act of terrorism to whether the Confederate flag should still fly. Much of America remains wrapped up in this
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Saying it has been a difficult few weeks for anyone associated with the University of Virginia, as alum, students, faculty or sexual assault victims, would be an understatement. After the explosive investigative report in Rolling Stone magazine, my beloved alma mater became the face of the campus sexual assault in America. Who is to blame?
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Imagine convenience stores scattered around pretty much every neighborhood corner in a country that sells comic books depicting violent pornographic, often incestuous, cartoons having sex with children. Some even show children being gang-raped. Now imagine a government in 2014 moving not to fully ban this kind of material. This is precisely what happened in Japan
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Canada is the best place to be a woman, and India is the worst according to a new poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The legal news service launched a global poll of experts this week ranking countries for women in the G20, putting the US, which “polarised opinion due to issues surrounding reproductive rights and affordable healthcare,” in sixth place. Access to healthcare and policies that advocate gender equality
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Well, unless you live in Iceland. The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2009 report on the Global Gender Gap last week, and Iceland is at the top of the list. The country has the highest gender equality index of 134 countries analyzed. According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, the WEF’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2009
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