practical skills, from financial literacy and tailoring to agricultural work. Backed by AJWS, Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society in West Bengal takes a similar approach. The organisation, which works with marginalised Muslim and tribal women and children in urban Kolkata, runs a school for gi

practical skills, from financial literacy and tailoring to agricultural work. Backed by AJWS, Mohammad Bazar Backward Classes Development Society in West Bengal takes a similar approach. The organisation, which works with marginalised Muslim and tribal women and children in urban Kolkata, runs a school for gi

is "other backward classes" background while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, or when he criticized Bangladeshi (read: Muslim) infiltrators in Assam and West Bengal. It is troubling, too, that the new parliament will have the fewest Muslim members of any since 1952, while HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031576 --- PAGE BREAK --

for survival. An Indian woman said that prostitution was "better pay for what was expected of her in her last job, anyway;" women in most jobs in West Bengal, India, were expected to tolerate bosses' sexual exploitation in order to keep their jobs." A woman in Zambia, which had a ninety percent unemploym

tion becoming a huge hit. Seeing the massive response to the Bengali version, the publishers, Ankur Prakashani said they plan to market the book in West Bengal, India, soon. Mesbahuddin Ahmed, managing director of the publishing house, said the company had run out of the 3,000 copies of the Bengali version

, his government, despite promises to Bangladesh, will not present a bill to parliament on swapping a chunk of territory along a messy border with West Bengal for fear of a local backlash there. Such caution reflects profound weakness domestically. Yet any successor government could face similar constrain

practical skills, from financial literacy and tail=ring to agricultural work. Backed by AJWS, Mohammad =azar Backward Classes Development Society in West Bengal takes a similar a=proach. The organisation, which works with marginalised Muslim and tribal women and children in urban Kolkata, runs a school for