by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
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...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio
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....
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
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...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
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...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
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....
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Surrogacy is reported to bring $400 million every year to the Indian economy. Doctors in even the smallest towns assist in it, but a few towns like Anand have turned it into big business. Until 2015, anyone from anywhere could fly to India, spend about $35,000 and...
