Where Indian women lead, a better life follows
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KANAIPUR, India  - Every morning 10-year-old Indian villager Nipa Haldar crosses a canal in a small boat and trudges along a mud road for 20 minutes to reach school, pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse.
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MADRI, India  - Whenever Lalibati, a poor farmer's  wife in western India, falls sick, she heads for only one  person: the local faith healer.
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Young single women in New Delhi who want to live solo are viewed with suspicion.
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India looked set Thursday to get its first woman president after a vote by lawmakers, but doubts remained as to whether the 72-year-old -- dogged by a slew of scandals -- was fit to assume the post.
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India elected its first female president on Saturday, early results showed, in what supporters called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.
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Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They cannot remarry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck.
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MORBI, India -- Meet the men and women building the new India. Chakubhai Khabhu, old and lean, smoking a thin, hand-rolled cigarette, stands on top of a pile of bricks his children have made with their hands. His daughter, Vanita, 20, tosses bricks to her brothers, two by two, in a seamless human chain. One of his sons' wives takes ...
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Five people in five cities reflect on the nationÂs road forward.
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Midlife women share their views on designing a fulfilling career and a balanced life.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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India elected its first female president on Saturday, official results showed, in what supporters called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.
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Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayanâs enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
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"Is it this old woman who's  getting married?" asked Kastury Ghosh, a bridal shop manager in  the west Indian city of Jodhpur, as she peered over her glasses  at a picture of Elizabeth Hurley.
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GEE'S BEND, Alabama  - Their story is a heartwarming tale gone sour. In an obscure village in rural Alabama a group of women toiled for decades to make a living.
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Lawmakers in India were expected to elect the nation&#39;s first woman president in voting that began on Thursday, following the most scandal-dogged contest in six decades of independence.
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It's a passage to India, all right, albeit a strange one.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia -- The women attending Esperanza Mitta's community meetings moved here from tiny mountain villages and worn-out mining towns, and now they are fashioning a modern metropolis out of whatever they have in hand.