<story><title>Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor-work-force.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=photo-spot-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>visualsearchsv</author><text>I wish that NYTimes would differentiate between Individual indian States. Individual states have significant autonomy and depending upon the government elected can range from moderate to leftist. Largest indian states have populations similar to large nations such as Mexico ~ Maharashtra. And have huge variation in metrics like literacy rates ranging from 93% (Kerala ~ Canada ) to 63% (Bihar ~ Philippines).&lt;p&gt;~ is used to show country with similar population.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Indian_states_ranking_by_literacy_rate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Indian_states_ranking_by_liter...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;indian-summary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;indian-summary&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Indian Women Seeking Jobs Confront Taboos and Threats</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor-work-force.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=photo-spot-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shortsightedsid</author><text>The problem with India is that no stereotype really exists. For every truth, the opposite is also true. I wonder why the NY Times, the BBC etc.. focus so much on the negative. Does the idea of India go synonymously with poverty for them?&lt;p&gt;Yes. India has enormous challenges. But the fact remains that hundreds of millions of people have come out of poverty in just 25 years.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s time the narrative changes.</text></comment>