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...lead sponsor of the four-day-long reunion of 3,500 alumni. Microsoft's research center in Hyderabad came calling. The CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, already employs 1,500 graduates and says he needs more. Stanford? MIT? Harvard? Nope. This was a gathering of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology...
PLEA FOR UNITY The letter, written to an Indian newspaper, begs Indians to eschew religious violence and warns that the millions of Muslims who still called India home could "become aliens in their own land"--a concern as pressing now as it was six decades...
...reason for the rise in the divorce rate is that educated Indian women - or at least educated, middle-class women - now have the option. "Women don't want to lie down and take it anymore," says Julie George, a Pune-based lawyer in matrimonial cases. "There is a lot more independence, freedom. Women who work are financially independent and aren't prepared to put up with a husband who harasses them." While no one is suggesting that Rushdie was harassing Lakshmi in any way (Indian papers reported that she was seen partying with "another man" recently), the couple is splitting...
...that's only half the story. Lakshmi is hardly representative of the average Indian woman. And while middle class, urban women may be taking charge and sometimes just as likely to leave their husbands as their husbands are to leave them, in India's rural villages, it's still the men who initiate most divorces - often leaving women and children with no financial and little family support. "Poor women in villages are often just abandoned," says George, who works for Streevani, a Pune-based non-governmental organization that, according to its website, is "committed to the empowerment of women...
...people have created profiles on the site. A brief survey of a few shows that most people still list religion and caste details as well as whether they are vegetarian or "non-veg" (as carnivores in India are known) and whether they have kids or not. Though some Indian commentators have suggested that divorcees are less worried than other Indians about religion and caste when searching for a mate, Pahwa says his gut feel is they may "care as much - maybe even more, especially if they've had a bad experience the first time...