by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio
A report released this month by UNICEF has been cause for celebration in India, the country with the highest number of child marriages in South Asia each year. According to the newly released data, the annual number of child marriages in the country has dropped by...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Leena Kejriwal’s art installations are hiding in plain sight across India. In small towns and big cities, stark black silhouettes of little girls are spray-painted on buildings, railway station walls, the boundaries of schools and in crowded markets. They tell...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
When Navali Nayak sowed her millet in 2007, she did it in secret. She held the seeds in a fold of cloth at the waist of her saree and dropped them intermittently into the furrows her husband, Magan, was ploughing, just a few feet ahead of her. He believed she was...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio, Portraits
Composer Sawan Dutta had scored the music for two Bollywood movies. After meetings with movie executives, long nights in the studio, these two projects would be her most high-profile work yet. And then, disaster. One film lost distribution. The other lost its...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
India and Pakistan have fought four wars and threatened each other with nuclear weapons for decades. Like most neighbors, they have differences — primarily in religion — but they do overlap in some areas, such as language, dress and, of course, food. The cuisines...
