For their Valentine’s day special, RNW featured two stories from India.

The first is about Karishma Shah and her trials in ‘arranged dating’ Click on the play button in the embedded player under the link that says “Arranged Dating Hell”

The second is about the inspirational Prabha Panse who match makes for the disabled.

We air our clean linen in public, talking about the right to dry our clothes outside. Some housing associations ban it, but forcing people to use dryers is expensive and bad for the planet. India is following in America’s footsteps – but in a land where clothes drying seems to be in people’s genes, will the dryer ever replace the clothes line?
Sonologue’s commentary on line drying the laundry was featured on RNW’s Earthbeat today. Download by right clicking here

On April 1, the long awaited “people’s car” - the Tata Nano made its debut at select car dealerships in Mumbai. We went over to one in the evening and talked to (and recorded) a few of the eager people milling about. We got information on the feel of the car, how the bookings work…