Why Did India Have Ten Million Fewer Childhood Deaths Than Predicted?—NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

The study has a depressing name: The Million Death Study. But its latest set of data, published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday, is anything but depressing when it comes to the topic of childhood deaths in India. India has the tragic distinction of...

This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup Public Radio International

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

Mumbai has 72 miles of coastline, some of it covered in mangroves and some of it sandy or rocky — but none of it is clean. There isn’t a beach culture here. It’s not a place for gathering and tanning —  more often it’s a...

Why Does India Lead The World In Deaths From TB? NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio

For the second year in a row, India has landed the dubious distinction of being number one in the world for deaths from tuberculosis: 423,000 TB patients died in the year 2016. That’s a third of the world’s 1.4 million death toll. India, of course, is not...

Bangalore Widows Find Camaraderie, Friendship in the Face of Isolation The New Humanitarian

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio

For five mornings each week, the elderly women who visit the Rangoli Women’s Center say they feel like they belong somewhere. This is an unusual feeling for many of them. In most of India, older women are practically invisible. In large families, they take on...

The world’s biggest beach clean-up DW WorldLink

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

For two years, every weekend a group of volunteers converges on Versova beach, on the north shore of Mumbai, to collect the rubbish – by hand! The team has already collected over 7000 tonnes of waste – and it all started with one man. A lawyer who looked...