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Sample these News clips just from the last couple of week: The Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong hopes to undertake a study that will "systematically identify the discrimination, harassment and vilification that sexual minorities encounter in the course of their education, employment and social interactions on a daily basis". In Pennsylvania, Officer Melissa Gogel was paid $20,000 as settlement for her sex discrimination case against the city for "being denied a promotion", "changing her work schedule", "not being allowed to take a government vehicle home". Films are going through "Bechdel Test" to tackle female representation - how many female characters are there? how many are developed beyond being an attachment to the male hero? When someone asked why Dunham’s character in the HBO series, Girls, is seen walking around naked a lot, often when there was no particular reason the story requires it, the question was ter...

Well, I was a away for sometime to give the finishing touches to my book, THE MIRAGE, which is based on multitude of characters found in Dubai and takes a dig into the stark realities of relationships... The book is available on Apple iBook (US) Store or you can buy by clicking on the link... http://www.lulu.com/shop/vikas-kakwani/the-mirage/ebook/product-21095000.html The Sharaf Developers owned by Sheikh Abdul Sharaf rags-to-riches story... …he was born out of abject poverty - living in a two room shack with his father, mother, three step mothers and fourteen siblings including ten step-brothers and sisters. Tens of miles in either direction from whatever they called a house, was golden brown, hot and serene desert with absolutely no vegetation and no hope whatsoever. For the family of twenty living in complete wilderness was a matter of daily survival. Hand-to-mouth, as a figure of speech, just didn’t apply to the Sharaf family. More often than not, the hand would no...