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I spoke with Nikita Azad who started a small revolution on social media for DW's WorldLink program late last week and it was in Friday's show. The hashtag #HappyToBleed started with an open letter on an online activist forum that went viral, challenging the patriarchy...
For Indian women, saris mark crucial points in our lives: Festivals, coming of age, weddings. We buy saris but, at least early on, we inherit them. The crux of this piece is a sari I inherited from Ammiji (my paternal grandmother) and how I want to hold on to it even...
The Indian city of Bangalore is known not only as the IT hub of India but also the City of Lakes. But recently, residents were shocked when one of those lakes caught fire. Over the last year the surface of two city lakes, Vathura and Bellandur, has become covered in...
During my week long apprenticeship ("guest interning", I called it) at PRI's The World in Boston's WGBH studios, I worked with senior producer Traci Wong to help find sources and then pre-interview the reporter who covered the story on the ground. The notorious Ivory...
On Ganeshotsav – colorful, noisy, insane: A web piece for PRI’s The World
Every year here in Mumbai, Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of new beginnings, gets an 11-day party. He comes home to those who invite him. It’s a happy, fun and noisy time of year in this part of the country. For a festival that started out as a single day on which...
Life is very clearly defined in the typical Indian television commercial: Men earn the money, work very hard, drive the car, buy insurance and even decide which color to paint the walls at home. But one ad in particular caught my eye: It's about sharing the load...
My January reports from Assam on elephant and rhino conservation through an enterprise that makes dung paper aired on Deutsche Welle in March. The show, World Link, is about "the people behind the headlines" so for them I did a profile of Mahesh ​Bora, who started...
For many people, clothes made from silk signify beauty and elegance in fashion. But not everyone is aware that the silk worms that create the fine silk thread are actually killed in the production process, when their cocoons are placed in boiling water to obtain the...
In December of 2012, when "Nirbhaya" was brutally raped and killed, documentary filmmaker Ram Devineni was visiting India. What he encountered moved him to create a comic book, his first, with an unlikely action hero - Priya, who astride a tiger, with the aid of...
Depending on which index you look at it, India has three cities in the top 5 noisiest cities in the world. One person stepped up to the challenge of taking it on – by making honking a privilege with an upper limit that can be fined if you cross a threshold.
We’ve all been there. We’re out and about and that urge suddenly become urgent. You have to pee. So, you rearrange your errands and calibrate a new route that includes a coffee shop or mall so you can pop into the restroom. But, in India, it’s a slightly different story. Especially for the women.
Here’s my latest piece for PRI’s The World about a man who can spot the similarity in melody between pop songs and classical Carnatic ragas – and the inspired music he makes on the violin to bridge the gap. Listen here.