by chhavi | Oct 15, 2010 | Narratives & Features
For PRI’s The World program’s web site, multimedia journalist extraordinaire Lauren Farrow and I did an audio slideshow about the last day of Ganeshotsav – Anant Chaturdashi, which is when idols of Ganpati are immersed in water. To find out more...
by chhavi | Oct 12, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries
A piece I did on how Mumbai is lawfully a silence zone and how ludicrous that really is – along with what we face every day. Including hideously loud suprabhatam aartis at the crack of dawn on a Sunday! You can listen to the piece along with a reaction to it and...
by chhavi | Oct 1, 2010 | Narratives & Features
Last month, I visited a pavement school in Versova and helped Earthbeat do an interview with architect Rohan Shivkumar about how space is reused in a city like Mumbai and how easy it is to repurpose any space at all. Is chaos a good thing? Listen or download...
by chhavi | Sep 12, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries, Narratives & Features
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,...
by chhavi | May 28, 2010 | Narratives & Features
Sonologue contributed two pieces to a special show of South Asia Wired on hunger. The timing couldn’t be better, the Hindustan Times led with a front page story on how the Supreme Court has slammed the UP government for collusion in perpetuating malnutrition and...
