Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a member of Burma’s Parliament today, along with other elected members of her party, the National League for Democracy. The […]
Author: Gaiutra Bahadur
Gaiutra Bahadur is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation and Ms. She is working on the book Coolie Woman, about women indentured to British colonial sugar plantations.
Guyanese Machete Murders Have Century-Old History
In the village where I grew up, in the backwoods province of Berbice, Guyana, several recent murders of women recall a spate of brutal killings on British sugar plantations in […]