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Woman of Pakistani origin is Norwegian Culture Minister

In what can be described as a fitting response to Anders Breivik’s brutal assault on Norwegian multiculturalism, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appointed a 29-year-old Muslim woman of Pakistani origin the new Culture Minister. Hadi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Shame and stupidity: a brief history of Malaysian womanhood

Malaysian women of different cultures and ethinicities welcome visitors from abroad in their colourful traditional costumes. They all smile benignly, and they all look beautiful. This is the ‘Malaysia, truly Asia’ tourism camp [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Assemblywoman's mission is to break the culture of silence

The silence helped Mary Hayashi find her voice. It trapped her older sister in a cage of depression, eventually ending in her suicide at 17. And it enveloped Hayashi's family afterward. Hayashi's parents burned her sister Bo Yoon's clothes [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2008 | Comments : 0

The Woman Behind The Sitaar Maestro-Anoushka Shankar

At thirteen, she made her performing debut in sitar and began assisting her father in all his concerts worldwide. Meet Anoushka Shankar, accredited by TIME for ‘injecting freshness and energy into a somewhat stuffy art fo [...]