"Like many of the rural members of Mirman Baheer, a women’s literary society based in Kabul, the girl calls whenever she can, typically in secret. She reads her poems aloud to Amail, who transcribes them line by line. To conceal her poetry writing from her family, the girl relies on a pen name, Meena Muska. (Meena means “love” in the Pashto language; muska means “smile.”)"
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The Bangladeshi government's power grab for the world's biggest microlender hurts millions of poor, and threatens the gains made by the women who run it.
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"While journalists come in many breeds, none is more purely annoying than the hit-and-run foreign correspondent. In his classic essay “How to Be a Foreign Correspondent,” the late Alexander Cockburn described New York Times reporter C.L. Sulzberger “as the summation, the Platonic ideal of what foreign reporting is all about, which is to fire volley after volley of cliché into the densely packed prejudices of his readers. There are no surprises in his work. NATO is always in crisis … . His work is a constant affirmation of received beliefs.”
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