Two-face baby says "better to smile at you with......"

An infant Indian girl born with two pairs of eyes, two noses and two lips (but only one pair of ears) is being venerated as a godsend in her village. The baby's 19-year-old mom says that she has "accepted the way she is and so will the rest of the world. Why should [I regret], after all God formed her features and it is he who decided how she should be."

Vinod and Sushma Kumar said that when their daughter was born (4 weeks ago outside of Delhi), hospital staff told the family that everything was normal. "So where's the need to get medical help? She's feeds through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. She's just a baby."

The family, who are poor and largely illiterate, do not believe modern science can help their child and are already building a small temple to the girl in the village.

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Ho's talk back - the other side of Indian brothels revealed in "Red Light Despatch"

The "Red Light Despatch," a monthly pub out of Mumbai, India gives an exclusive snapshot of life in some of India's biggest brothels, reporting the murky world of pimps and violent customers and showcasing the dreams and talents of sex workers.

Well put together, "Red Light Despatch" is full of women sold to brothels as children, personal accounts of torture and harassment, poems and essays by prostitutes, book and film reviews and advocacy articles.

Health workers and prostitutes sit together once a week in a tiny newsroom located inside a brothel in India's financial capital to discuss stories, headlines and the design of issues.

The reporters, often themselves prostitutes or their relatives, file their contribution after scouring the brothels of Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi and some smaller cities.

"We choose the best stories for publishing," said Rupa Metgudd, a news coordinator and daughter of a former prostitute, sifting through reports for the latest edition. "The magazine is not a mere publication. For us it is journalism of purpose." Word.....