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November 2009
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close camps that have held civilians since end of civil war
The three women were at a bus stop when the police rolled up. "You are begging, get in the van," the officers told them. They protested their innocence, but to no avail. After they were locked up in beggars' prison behind the high, barbed-wire-topped walls of the Nirmal Chhaya complex, next door to Delhi's Tihar jail, 50-year-old Ratnabai Kale twice tried to hang herself with her own sari.
RUBINA turns the card round and round in her hands, peering blankly at the Christmas trees on the front. Maybe they are foreign houses, she ventures after a while, giggling. It is clear she has no idea what the shapes are, though she stuck them to the card. In Sreepur village, Bangladesh, the Muslim women who make what are probably the UKs most ethical Christmas cards are certainly aware that Christmas is coming, but they have only the vaguest idea of the trappings that accompany it.
An air of deep melancholy descends as Dr Devender Mohanty recalls his final conversation with his son. Kunal Mohanty had been in Glasgow sitting his exams to qualify as a captain in the Indian merchant navy, but his father was keen for him to return home as soon as possible to tend to his pregnant wife. "I said, come home soon... I told him I'd get his ticket if he came sooner. He said no, he had already booked a return ticket..." The doctors voice trails off. Less than 24 hours after hanging up the receiver on their long- distance phone conversation, Kunal Mohanty was bleeding to death in a city street, his throat cut by a thug motivated by pure racism.
Goa photo shoot for Grazia.
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