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Hot Women of India: Pictorial Review

I know you've been waiting restlessly, so finally here is the pictorial review of Hot Women of India.

1. Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, and author of many books. In India she has founded "Navdanya", a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights. She also directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. She is one of the most important intellectuals today criticizing how the globalization of capitalist agriculture is ripping off indigenous traditions, privatizing the old commons (including water and genes!) and also doing lethal harm to farmers and the land.

Among her many books are:

• Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
  
• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply.
  
• Monocultures of the Mind : Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
  
• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
  

Find more from Vandana Shiva online at
BBC Reith Lecture 2000
Lots of her essays at ZNet


2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University and one of the most recognized intellectuals in the world today. More specifically, she is a Marxist-Deconstructionist-Feminist-Postcolonialist-Humorist. She is not yet a bodhisattva, (too secular for that) but she is one of the few enlightened people alive.

Among her many books are:

• The Spivak Reader
  
• A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
  
• In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
  
• Other Asias{to be published this coming May}
  

Find more Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at
Wikipedia entry
Postcolonial Web



3. Arundhati Roy is a lefty activist, anti-imperialist, and Booker Prize winner from India. The prize was for her 1997 novel The God of Small Things, which is now widely read.
Since then she has turned to non-fiction in an attempt to right a few wrongs in our fictional times. Her speeches condemning Bush's approach to the endless "war on terror" sent shock waves of vitality through the U.S. and demolished the rightwing's pretense to legitimate rule. She has been more concerned recently with ecological destruction and social justice in India.


Among her several books are:

• The God of Small Things
  
• An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
  
• The Cost of Living
  
• The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
  

Find more Arundhati Roy at
Unofficial Bio up to her Booker Prize days
The Salon Interview or, portrait of the artist as a young woman.
a now mature and more political interview
The New American Century essay in The Nation.


4. What caused the women of India to become so darn hot? I don't know! Is this related to India's status as a postcolonial society, the country formerly known as "The Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire? Please write in and tell me your theory.

Meanwhile, keep checking back for the bloggence about Three Hot Women of Taiwan: The Non-Swimsuit Edition Can you guess who?

posted by E. Heroux @ 11:28 PM