by chhavi | Dec 24, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries, Narratives & Features
An essay on the changing trends of Christmas for Earthbeat aired as part of their “Preparing for the holidays” show. Christmas is mainly celebrated by 25 million Indian Christians – under 3 percent of the population. But in recent years, Christmas has...
by chhavi | Dec 10, 2010 | Narratives & Features
This story actually ran many months ago, but we missed posting it. Disabled communities in the West are still fighting or truly equal rights, but they’re a long way ahead of India where being disabled is still seen as being less than “normalâ€. For Lata Umrania...
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 | 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 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...
