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E
LISABETH
B
UMILLER
was born in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1956 and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University. She has worked for
The Washington Post
since 1979, in Washington, New Delhi and now Tokyo, where she lives with her husband, Steven R. Weisman, the Tokyo bureau chief of
The New York Times
, and their daughter, Madeleine.
A street in Calcutta, 1987.
Arun and Manju Bharat Ram with their daughter in New Delhi.
Rajput youth groups guarding the sati site in Rajasthan, 1987.
Bhabhiji.
The women line up to vote in the elections in Khajuron, July 1988.
Muthaye, the woman who put her second daughter “to sleep.”
Ela Bhatt.
A member of the Self-Employed Women’s Association weaving textiles at a handloom in the village of Dev Dholera.
Mandakini
(right)
on the set of
Dance Dance
in Bombay.