India Social

¿Sabías que en la India hay muchas niñas que no pueden acceder a la educación? ¿O que el 40 % de los matrimonios infantiles se producen en este país? Incluso, con frecuencia, las familias con pocos recursos sienten desilusión y rechazo cuando nace una hija. Durante los más de trece años que Jaume Sanllorente ha dedicado a la lucha pacífica contra la pobreza en Bombay, ha sido testigo de la discriminación que sufren las mujeres en la India.

Et stærkt og inspirerende portræt af Lisbeth Johansens rejse fra livet som karrierekvinde i London til Kolkatas slum. I 2009 grundlægger hun organisationen LittleBigHelp, som i dag har 70 ansatte og årligt hjælper hundredevis af børn og kvinder i slummen. At opbygge en organisation i Indien er hårdt arbejde, og Lisbeth fortæller ærligt om de mange problemer, nedture og ubehagelige oplevelser, der er en del af historien.

As the world once again confronts an eruption of authoritarianism, Gyan Prakash's Emergency Chronicles takes us back to the moment of India's independence to offer a comprehensive historical account of Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975-77. Stripping away the myth that this was a sudden event brought on solely by the prime minister's desire to cling to power, it argues that the Emergency was as much Indira's doing as it was the product of Indian democracy's troubled relationship with popular politics, and a turning point in its history.

Meet Katie Milk - she's brave, funny, has an active imagination and is about to go off to boarding school for the first time. At first she can't imagine having a worse roommate than Bernadette Kelly but soon Katie has more important things to worry about . . . Are there really mad nuns in the attic and why does Chiquita Morris cry all the time? Is Chiquita's mother really a famous fashion model, as she claims or is she just trying to get attention?

Maddy Blue lives her whole life through magazines. She wishes she could trade her boring life for an exciting adventure. Funny, action-packed, yet touching, this story takes readers on a rollercoaster of worries and dreams that is Maddy Blue's life.