by chhavi | Nov 22, 2010 | Narratives & Features
A piece I did on honor killings aired on RNW this weekend. The song goes: Love Hurts. But the tragic fact is that in some places in the world, it does more than that – it kills. India is one of those places. Here’s my report on someone who’s trying to be...
by chhavi | Nov 1, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries
A piece I did on Mumbai’s kitten conundrum aired on TSWI this week. ” In a city teeming with millions who live in poverty, why would anybody care about stray kittens?” If you know me, you also know that I do. Here’s my essay. You can listen to...
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...
