· January, 2008

Stories about India from January, 2008

India: Divorce and Women

Ultra Violet on the increasing instances of divorce in India, what it means in terms of autonomy for women and perspectives on divorce.

30 January 2008

Bahrain: Are Gulf Arabs Lazy?

Earlier this week the Bahraini Labour Minister Majid Al Alawi was interviewed in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, and in the interview he said that the Gulf was facing an 'Asian tsunami' because Gulf nationals are 'lazy' and 'spoilt' and depend on imported labour to do even simple tasks. He said that that the nearly 17 million foreign workers in the Gulf, mostly Asian, represented 'a danger worse than the atomic bomb or an Israeli attack'. What do Bahraini bloggers think?

29 January 2008

India: For Booklovers

Metroblogging Mumbai does a roundup for book lovers in the city – big shops, the shops around the corner, and hawkers near railway stations.

25 January 2008

India: Dalal Street

India Daily on the ups and downs on the stock exchanges in India – mirroring the volatility in markets worldwide.

25 January 2008

India: Sex and 40

head start reacts to a post that seems to assume that women in India don't have a sex life after the age of 40.

24 January 2008