Why support for women's shelters is "kind of radioactive"
GLOBAL HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT
editor's note
Anupam Gangopadhyay
In a week of non-stop news, many readers resonated with a personal story we published: the experiences of a teacher in India who won a fellowship to study teaching methods in the U.S. She was thrilled by the opportunity but was surprised by the reaction from family and friends. Questions like:
"Who will look after your children?"
"What about your husband's conjugal life?"
As educator Joyeeta Banerjee (pictured, above) writes: These queries are: "plain, practical and soaked in the belief that a woman's dreams must not stray beyond her kitchen walls."
Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Santanaare among the rock stars in the newly restored documentary Soul to Soul. This 1979 concert film, which took place on the country's independence day, "captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana," writes The Guardian.
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