Scholastic Update articles from April 1997

Scholastic Update archives from April 1997

India online: foreign products and foreign media are dragging India into the modern world.(A Vision of India)(Cover Story)
April 11, 1997... When Bill Gates, the American king of computer software, visited India for the first time last month, he was the hottest ticket in town, making the front page of every major newspaper. For the new generation of Indians, the gospel according to...

Your caste is your life; Under India's ancient caste system, some people are destined for poverty.(A Vision of India)(Cover Story)
April 11, 1997... Every morning, Kitabo leaves her tiny one-room shanty in a Delhi ghetto and walks to a wealthy neighborhood of grand homes and tree-lined boulevards. There she cleans and dusts seven homes, earning $45 a month. Kitabo has seven children, and a...

They put a lock on my mouth; bias against Indian women starts at birth - but there are signs of change.(A Vision of India)(Cover Story)
April 11, 1997... Usharani Murthi, one of seven children from a village in southern India, was 19 when a family friend asked to marry her. Murthi did not like the man. But her mother was delighted that someone had offered to take her daughter off her hands. Her...

The art of survival. (teenage performance artist in India)
April 11, 1997... Near the edge of a busy vegetable market in a lowerclass section of New Delhi, a crowd gathers as Kishan Bharti pours kerosene on a metal hoop covered with wads of cloth. The ragged children and working men on their lunch break watch wide-eyed...

The legacy of Gandhi. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
April 11, 1997... Mohandas Gandhi led India to independence with the weapons of nonviolence and love. But have his remarkable teachings been forgotten? Nearly 50 years after an assassin's bullet gunned him down, the remains of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the father...

Inside India. (population, government, economy and other statistics)
April 11, 1997... Fifty years after its independence, India remains a land of great variety and differences. Some Indians have vast wealth, while more than 40 percent of the nation doesn't earn enough to afford on adequate diet. The same diversities are seen in...

Mad about Madeleine. (Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright)
April 11, 1997... The first female Secretary of State is winning raves--so far. But can she navigate a complicated world and get Americans interested in foreign policy? When President Clinton named Madeleine K. Albright as his new Secretary of State in...

Jackie Robinson: leading the way. (first African American baseball player)
April 11, 1997... This April, when major-league baseball players take the field, every player--be he Ken Griffey Jr., John Smoltz, Mariana Rivera, or Hideo Nomo--will wear a patch on his uniform sleeve. It bears the embroidered autograph of the man--Jackie...