a Bihari bride need not bring any "dowry"...she just needed to have a family which ran a few NGO's, particularly in the murkiest corners of that hapless State!
It's the big ones I am scared of. There are some that I profoundly respect - even when I have worked with them on close quarters - which is a great thing. But having worked in an NGO in Hyderabad (slated to become one of the big five soon) - which gets every contract the government awards - which lies through its teeth about how many schools they work in - how many pregnant women they are monitoring, how many lift irrigations schemes they revived - every bloody number was doctored. They were too big to speak up against. So I left. But I regret not having done anything about it. Not just this - they get the who's who to endorse them - V1mala Ramachandran, Deepa Da$, you name the area expert. I was forced to twist, manipulate every number - and I talking in terms of crores. And they have the most suave people in the state to support them - Chiranjeevi, Isher Ahluwalia, Anand Mahindra, Ramalinga Raju, Anji Reddy - -- Neha Viswanathan +44(0) 77695 65886 London, UK http://withinandwithout.com | http://globalvoicesonline.org
