Sex-based abortion divides pro-choicers on rights

Mara Hvistendahl is pro-choice, except when she is not. She believes a woman should have the right to terminate a pregnancy. Except if she is in China or India and wants to abort a female fetus because she was hoping it was a male. In those countries, the toll of “missing” girls is in the millions, despite existing bans on sex-based abortions

Why is Beti B still nameless?

A week from now, Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan’s bitiya will be two months old. She’s yet to have a naming ceremony. We hear that the Bachchans have already finalised a name and it begins with ‘Aa’, but no official declaration has been made yet.

Interview: January 12, 2012

Eva Stachniak ’s THE WINTER PALACE is a fictional account of Catherine the Great’s rise to power, told from the perspective of a low-profile servant in the court.