SRI LANKAN EDUCATION
The value Sri Lanka places on public education explains why it can boast a literacy level of 90 percent while the population of India anguishes around the 60 percent mark. Most of the Indian middle class and all of the upper class have no immediate personal interest in the proper running of government schools.
A VICTORY FOR INDIA’S GAY COMMUNITY
In a landmark ruling the Delhi High Court has decriminalised gay sex. One group within gay society that are more visible than any other are India’s transexuals. A series of recent legal victories for Aravanis mirrors the achievements of the wider Indian homosexual community. The photograph above was taken while I was photographing the “Third Sex” Aravanis of Tamil Nadu state earlier this year.