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[26 May 2011 | No Comment | ]
Mumbai matchmaker connects the disabled on PRI’s The World

Reporter Chhavi Sachdev profiles a matchmaker in Mumbai who helps people with disabilities to make a love connection.
We’ve done a story about Prabha Panse before for European radio stations, we figured America should know about her too :) It’s just about 5 minutes long.

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[21 Jan 2011 | No Comment | ]
a 2,000-year-old job: The Jaga geneaologists on PRI’s The World

Few of us in this day and age have held jobs for several years, let alone for generations. Chhavi Sachdev in India caught up with a set of brothers who have followed in the footsteps of their fathers and their fore-fathers before them – for the last 2020 years!

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[10 Dec 2010 | No Comment | ]
double handicap

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.