Tuesday , April 17, 2007 at 19 : 46
The other day I picked up a book by Seema Goswami. Its called Woman On Top and it advises today's Indian woman on how to get ahead at her workplace, how to deal with her boss...even how to dress. While reading it I remembered an incident hat has been at the back of my mind for a couple of months now. I was shooting for a story in Rajasthan and needed to talk to villagers. I went to a village near Jaipur and was introduced to the sarpanch there... The sarpanch was a short young man, who drove a white maruti 800 and carried a cell phone. He was more than willing to take me around his village... I wanted to speak to some ladies in the village about whether the brand new highway next to their homes made any difference to their lives.The sarpanch took me to several homes...where we were welcomed...many of these homes were new concrete buildings...
