Full Coverage: Culture

26.09.2007 WaterAid and its partners are using novel ways to educate people on sanitation. The community-led total sanitation (CLTS) approach has already had a huge impact in Bangladesh where open defecation is a common problem.

25.09.2007 A recent study has revealed that strong son preference and female foeticide have led to a skewed sex ratio in the state of Rajasthan in India. It also questions whether the two-child norm has led to a worsening of the situation.

14.09.2007 Beberapa ungkapan dari penulis artikel, Windry yang dimuat 4 Agustus 2007 di harian ini, menurut penulis sangat perlu diberi tanggapan balik. Karena, ungkapannya dapat menimbulkan keraguan akan kebenaran berbagai informasi dasar seputar HIV/AIDS

12.09.2007 “Have a Boy, Have a Girl Guaranteed!” Five happy diapered babies, each of a different ethnicity, reach out to expectant parents of all races in an ad for a fertility clinic. But that ad for The Fertility Institutes of Los Angeles has Indian-American media caught in the throes of a dilemma.

07.09.2007 Artists in Karachi are working towards giving the city a facelift. Alone among its mega-city peers to have no significant public artworks, a number of artists are working to revive Karachi’s public art. “What the Taliban have done to the ancient Buddha’s statue in Bamiyan a few years ago, fanatics and ruthless government functionaries did to Karachi’s statues long ago,” says Shahid Rassam, a local artist, lamenting the dearth of public artworks in Pakistan’s biggest city.