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TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya bravely shares her story of sexual assault in India

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
February 20, 2013 at 12:27 pm EDT

As protests roll through India, calling for punishment of six men who brutally gang raped a 23-year-old woman on a public bus in December with fatal results, TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya has written a powerful op-ed for The New York Times detailing her own sexual assault in India. Kantayya shares that event was traumatizing — […]

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9 talks about innovation in India

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
November 13, 2012 at 4:18 pm EDT

Arunachalam Muruganantham may not seem like the most obvious person to have started a revolution in sanitary napkins — after all, he is male. But in this funny and uplifting talk, given at the TED Talent Search in Bangalore, Muruganantham describes how he is enabling women in India to make their own pads — all […]