A commentary I did for Radio Netherlands about dirt, germs, and our growing national obsession with hand sanitizer… you can listen to just my piece (click to hear, right click to download and save to your computer) or you can listen to the whole show online, including reactions to how I ‘exemplified the extremes of coming from hyper-clean germ-phobic to one of the vibrant …cultures’ Great research on how your astringent lifestyle is making you more asthmatic and allergic.

Contrasting Devlali, a town where no one sleeps, with Ganne, where children are eating mud, Sonologue contributed two pieces to a special show of South Asia Wired on hunger.

At Sewri, an industrial suburb near Mumbai, you can find a treat for tired eyes. Along the backdrop of industry and with the whistle of a train ringing through the air, like rose petals clustered on glass, you can see a flock of real live flamingos - a thousand of them calmly rocking on the waves.