will comics help change social attitudes?


	will comics help change social attitudes?

Deepti

5-14-2007 4:10 AM

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india, society, men, women, culture, aids, hiv, comics

Deepti says:

About 250,000 copies of the pocket-sized comics have been sent for distribution in the urban slums of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad

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5-14-2007 5:08 AM

cementedminds

This is very interesting. I'm going to blog it. And I'm sure there's a PhD in it for someone!

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