Disabled communities in India are still seen as being less than “normal”. For Lata Umrania who is totally blind, her handicap has closed her out of the job she’s trained and qualified to do perfectly well – teach. And being disabled is also hard for those in the marriage market, as Shailesh Kulkarni found out.

The song goes: Love Hurts. But the tragic fact is that in some places in the world, it does more than that – it kills. India is one of those places. Here’s my report on someone who’s trying to be part of the solution to the problem of honor killings…

A piece I did on Mumbai’s kitten conundrum aired on TSWI this week. “In a city teeming with millions who live in poverty, why would anybody care about stray kittens?” If you know me, you also know that I do. Here’s my essay.