[Assam] From TOI

[Krishnendu Chakraborty]

You are right !   But  the world knows that  already. And what happens in India is a direct result of lack of education and poverty which is not the case for West.
 
So would not Boyle need something fresh which world does not know ... something which is happening in his own backyard while he is busy minting money showcasing  India's poverty.
 
BTW,  don't you think teen marriage and unmarried teen pregnancy are a bit different issues.  
 
And if you want to go back to ages of Mahatma Gandhi and like we can probably open a larger can of worms in Western world -- like appartheid for example.

--- On Fri, 2/13/09, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Assam] From TOI
To: assam at assamnet.org, krish_gau at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 2:47 PM






I am sure the child marriage participants in India can surely beat this record. Mahatma Gandhi got married at age 13 with his 13 yearold bride. One of my paternal uncles had got married when he was 12. Now he is 82.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/18/stories/2009011855981100.htm
40% of world's child marriages in India

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/13/world/main695062.shtml
7 yearolds get married!! sometimes allegedly with blessings of state ministers 


Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/



http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/

--- On Fri, 13/2/09, Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Assam] From TOI
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Friday, 13 February, 2009, 1:56 PM

Wonder if Boyle is going to make his next Oscar  film on this  :) 
 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/British-boy-a-father-at-13-Report/articleshow/4126888.cms
 
 


      
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