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Rita Banerji

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India

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http://www.ritabanerji.com

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Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Sciences

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Life and People

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March 2010

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Rita Banerji was born and raised in 13 towns all over India. At 18 she moved to the United States and lived there for the next 11 years. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and later George Washington University in Washington D.C. Her fields of study and work largely dealt with Conservation and the Environment and many of her projects had a gender focus. Though she loved her field and her work with the environment, writing had been an ambition of hers from the time she was a child, a career that her family had discouraged her from pursuing as they regarded it as unrealistic.

However at 30 Rita returned to India to pursue her writing. She began to write freelance and also discovered a passion for photography which she pursued ...more

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Was the film 'Eat, Pray, Love' "Culturally Relative" About Women's Rights?

‘Eat Pray Love’ was showing in theaters in India about two weeks ago, and I have to admit, that like most here, I too went to see it just to see how the country looks on the big screen. But the one question that’s been nagging at me since is, “Why did they have to get Tulsi married?”

The seventeen-year-old Indian girl, Tulsi, who Liz Gilbert befriends at the ashram, has a colorful wedding Read more of this blog post »

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	Sex and Power: Defining History, Shaping Societies 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and Power it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNSAID: POETRY 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNDRESSING: LIFE IN HIDDEN POEMS 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars