Many Tongues, One Internet

Remember Taslima from the Nari Jibon project in Dhaka? Isn’t she sweet? Now she has her own domain, Taslima.net. Go on and visit and say hello. Yesterday she led a workshop at Nari Jibon to train the other bloggers there how to publish in their native language,...

Bangladesh

It’s difficult to believe that it’s that time again. Looking around my hotel room, all my stuff strewn about, and knowing that somehow, someway, it will all fit back into my little suitcase. Early tomorrow morning I will head back to the one place that has...
In other news …

In other news …

A Californian woman named Bernann McKinney paid a South Korean scientist nearly $50,000 to clone her deceased pit bull, Booger. How much would I pay to clone my very own Booger? That’s right, $51,000. Though I’d make her miniature and stuff her in my...

An Update from Nari Jibon

Every two weeks we highlight some of the latest and greatest from newly trained Rising Voices bloggers. Usually these posts take us all over the world, but this week we are going to focus specifically on Dhaka, Bangladesh where a group of ambitious young women are...