'Don't accept the stereotype of being the weaker sex'

Winners of the Stree Shakti Puraskars share their stories on how they are empowering women. Upasna Pandey/Rediff.com reports They have fought long, lonely and hard battles against discrimination,......

A new offensive in India's war on AIDS

The 2006 political declaration on HIV/AIDS in the United Nations General Assembly says that a quarter of a century into the epidemic, more than 65 million people have been infected with HIV, more......

Brangelina awesome, but both are banned

Lamat R Hasan in New Delhi The much-awaited list of banished words for 2007 is out. In its 32nd annual list Michigan's Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has banished "gitmo", "awesome", "now......

The woman who redefined 'positive'

I first met Kousalya in 1999. She was just back from a hospital and looked extremely thin, tired and weak. But her strength shone through in a joke she cracked.Visits to hospitals had become a part......