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Fake Medical News Can Now Be Fact-Checked In India—NPR Goats and Soda
#fakenews isn't just a U.S. thing. And it isn't just about politics. In India people are putting their health at risk by following spurious advice dispensed on forwards on Whatsapp, the phone-based messaging app. Here's one popular hoax making the rounds: an image of...
Why Did India Have Ten Million Fewer Childhood Deaths Than Predicted?—NPR Goats and Soda
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
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 public toilet, garbage...
Why Does India Lead The World In Deaths From TB?—NPR Goats and Soda
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 the only...
Bangalore Widows Find Camaraderie, Friendship in the Face of Isolation—The New Humanitarian
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
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 out of his...
Fighting for clean beaches in Mumbai—DW
India has a coastline of more than 7,000 kilometers, but sadly, it's not all pristine beaches and stunning cliffs. In fact, for Mumbai's citizens, the shore is more like a landfill. The beaches are covered with trash -- colourful plastic bags, bottles and food...
Can cities in India be quieter?—BBC CrowdScience
Festival fireworks and honking street traffic - what are the solutions to noise pollution? Testing fireworks’ decibel levels and noise mapping is hoped to help alleviate noise in Mumbai, India. Chhavi Sachdev hears from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board....
At Age 101, She’s A World Champ Runner—NPR Goats and Soda
Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers until about 7 a.m. Sometimes she goes to the Gurdwara, the place of worship for Sikhs, other times she prays at home....
Domestic violence burns survivors get a fighting chance at a hospital in Indore—BBC World Service
In India there have been many well-documented cases of women who were deliberately burned by their husbands as part of dowry demands. The law has been changed to give women more protection during the first seven years of marriage. But women are still being burned. Now...
Does Technology Change How we Fall in Love?—BBC CrowdScience
Chhavi Sachdev guest hosted an episode of CrowdScience to answer "How does technology affect how we fall in love?" Crowdscience traveled to India to answer listener Erin’s questions about the impact of the internet on our search for soulmates. We meet the...
Supporting India’s ‘forgotten’ women—DW WorldLink
In patriarchal societies like India, women who survive their husbands are often neglected later in life. In Bangalore, a slum community center is hoping to improve the lives of these widows by providing a space where they can come to do yoga, crafts and make friends....