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December 10, 2013
Women’s Voices Go Unheard Within Walls of Ahmedabad Ghetto
By RAKSHA KUMAR

AHMEDABAD, Gujarat — On a hot October morning, an intense discussion was waging between three women in a nondescript beauty salon in the Juhapura locality of Ahmedabad, the city’s largest Muslim ghetto.

While the most common topics of discussion in a beauty salon are fashion, cosmetics and men, here the women were discussing national politics, particularly the prospects of Gujarat’s chief minister, Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P.

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