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...South Asian story: boy meets girl just before the wedding. Boy marries girl whether she wants to or not. Girl loses her identity, her sanity and, sometimes, her life. At age 15, Jasvinder Sanghera was hurtling toward just such a fate. Born of Indian immigrants in the gritty English East Midlands city of Derby, she was about to be wed to a man she had never seen in a place, Punjab, she had never been...
...Sanghera's story took a detour. She ran away from home, married someone of her choosing, raised three children, earned a university degree and braved death threats to launch an organization that helps women in Britain's South Asian community escape forced marriages. That's a success story to inspire anyone. But, as Sanghera writes in Shame, her affecting new memoir, she has never quite escaped the penumbra of her family. She has never fully recovered from their response when, shortly after running away, she phoned home offering to return. "Don't bother," her mother said. "In our eyes...
...Forced Marriage Unit deals with more than 250 cases a year, but Sanghera's group, Derby-based Karma Nirvana, alone takes on seven new ones a week. Police in Britain are investigating scores of suspected "honor killings" of women resisting arranged marriages. Tellingly, the suicide rate among young South Asian females is three times the national average...
...targeted against his competitive egotism, which made race an issue to suit his advantage. Li’s target couldn’t have been more unfair—an enlightened institution, that no matter its past, today mostly strives towards justice. That is what was being lampooned, not Asian Americans in general...
...says its organizers include Chinese dissidents, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. In an e-mail to TIME, a Wikileaks organizer named James Chen wrote, "We are serious people working on a serious project... three advisors have been detained by Asian government, one of us for over six years." Yet the speculation that Wikileaks might a front for an intelligence agency is understandable, considering the recent arrival of "Intellipedia" - an internal wiki system used by 16 U.S. spy agencies...