The dancing guys are hilarious! LOL Sorry, I'm still waiting for a link so I skipped your review about Vikings. That's a show I want to enjoy un-spoilered ;) Well, as much as I love Asia and the Indian-subcomtinent, they really still have a problem with letting women go on their own. It's a sad story ...on the other hand, I've never met more friendly people than during my time down there (okay, I was mostly in Nepal, but they have the same problem).
aren't they funny? i kept waiting for the one in the black tank top to slip and fall, tho.
*zips lip about vikings*
i've heard some stories about women traveling alone in india, and the chances of being sexually assaulted. (not necessarily raped, but felt up on the bus and being kind of surrounded by aggressive guys and that kind of behavior.) i still want to visit, tho. and nepal! i'd love to see nepal.
I'd read a much shorter article about Muruganantham earlier, it's so fascinating and amazing how much effort and interest and time and money he put into his work. The last line though- that his proudest achievement meant a family had finally been able to earn enough for their child to go to school? *sniffles* wow. powerful.
i love that. i love that he invented this thing not so much for the money it would make him, but to help a bunch of poor rural women a. practice safer gynecological hygiene, and b. support themselves and their families.
oddly enough i only own 2, 3, and 4. which means i can now buy the shiny new anniversary edition of the book of three without having to duplicate it. :D altho it also means i'll have the first four books in a series with possibly three different styles of cover. >.< (3 and 4 are in my parents' basement. somewhere. and i found the black cauldron used a few years ago, so it's actually in my house.)
and man, that spelling. i'm so glad i never had reason to read those books out loud to anyone, because i would've really mangled the names. i mean, how do you pronounce "fflewddyr", anyway? i always liked him but jeebus, his name.
I read the Prydain Chronicles many times as a kid, and re-read them to my son! Who, like me, also thought that Eilonwy should have wound up with Fflewddur Flam and not Taran. ;)
The Indian sanitary pad guy was amazing. That was a lot of rumor and hardship to overcome, all in the name of something that he knew was really necessary for low-income women. Plus, helping the women start and run their own businesses? What a lot of good he has spread!
everything about that guy was impressive. he went to all this trouble to invent something that he couldn't use, that made absolutely no difference to his life, and he had to overcome all these social taboos in addition to the practical problems of figuring out what pads are even made of and how he could reproduce them for cheap. and now he invented this thing that can help all these rural women provide for themselves and their families.
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Sorry, I'm still waiting for a link so I skipped your review about Vikings. That's a show I want to enjoy un-spoilered ;)
Well, as much as I love Asia and the Indian-subcomtinent, they really still have a problem with letting women go on their own. It's a sad story ...on the other hand, I've never met more friendly people than during my time down there (okay, I was mostly in Nepal, but they have the same problem).
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*zips lip about vikings*
i've heard some stories about women traveling alone in india, and the chances of being sexually assaulted. (not necessarily raped, but felt up on the bus and being kind of surrounded by aggressive guys and that kind of behavior.) i still want to visit, tho. and nepal! i'd love to see nepal.
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and man, that spelling. i'm so glad i never had reason to read those books out loud to anyone, because i would've really mangled the names. i mean, how do you pronounce "fflewddyr", anyway? i always liked him but jeebus, his name.
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The Indian sanitary pad guy was amazing. That was a lot of rumor and hardship to overcome, all in the name of something that he knew was really necessary for low-income women. Plus, helping the women start and run their own businesses? What a lot of good he has spread!
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