by chhavi | Oct 29, 2020 | Narratives & Features, podcast, Portfolio
This fall, Sonologue produced a limited series of four episodes about an exciting subject: Tech for good! In conjunction with India’s biggest positive news site, The Better India, and Accenture India, we touched on the most cutting edge tech in play today,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Public discussion of periods is still a taboo in many parts of the world. But this week in India, everybody’s talking about the topic. The reason: an announcement by a Mumbai media firm called Culture Machine: The company has announced that its 75 women...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Five dogs turned blue in Mumbai. That was a story that journalist Deepak Gharat broke this past week. He was following up on a story in the industrial zone of Taloja, home to about 1,000 pharmaceutical and chemical factories. Every week, there’s something going...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Narratives & Features, Portfolio
India is having a debate about its national animals. Currently, the mighty tiger is the national beast and the peacock is the national bird. But the cow has recently been proposed as a replacement for the tiger because of its status as a holy animal. And this week,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
The numbers are depressing: Every 8 minutes a girl goes missing in India. Most of these girls are trafficked for sex, beggary or domestic labor. Unofficial counts put the number of victims of sex trafficking in India at 16 million — not counting the girls from...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
According to a Muslim custom that is rooted in tradition but not Islamic law, men have to say just three words to their wives if they want to dissolve their marriages. “Talaq, talaq, talaq†— and he’s divorced. But in India, a group of women petitioned...