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Few of us in this day and age have held jobs for several years, let alone for generations. Chhavi Sachdev in India caught up with a set of brothers who have followed in the footsteps of their fathers and their fore-fathers before them – for the last 2020 years!
Tis the season and it’s changed – Earthbeat
Christmas in India is mainly celebrated by 25 million Christians – under 3 percent of the population. But in recent years, the festival has become very popular across India’s religious spectrum. For Earth Beat, here’s an essay about how Christmas has changed in the last 30 years.
double handicap
Disabled communities in India are still seen as being less than “normalâ€. For Lata Umrania who is totally blind, her handicap has closed her out of the job she’s trained and qualified to do perfectly well – teach. And being disabled is also hard for those in the marriage market, as Shailesh Kulkarni found out.
love commandos – south asia wired
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 part of the solution to the problem of honor killings…
Kitten conundrum – the state we’re in
A piece I did on Mumbai’s kitten conundrum aired on TSWI this week. “In a city teeming with millions who live in poverty, why would anybody care about stray kittens?” If you know me, you also know that I do. Here’s my essay.
Ganesh slideshow on PRI’s The World
An audio slideshow Lauren Farrow and I did for PRI’s The World program’s web site about Anant Chaturdashi, the last day of Ganeshotsave, when idols of Ganpati are immersed in water. To find out more about the ritual, we followed the processions of Ganesh’s to Mahim where hundreds of small, big, medium, and quite large Ganeshas were immersed. Check out the slideshow
the sound of silence (zones?) – earthbeat
A piece I did on how Mumbai is lawfully almost entirely a silence zone and what noise we face every day. You can listen to the piece along with a reaction to it and other companion pieces from around the globe …
Earthbeat: reusing space
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 here
the dirt on dirt – earthbeat
A commentary I did for Radio Netherlands about dirt, germs, and our growing national obsession with hand sanitizer... you can listen to just my piece (click to hear, right click to download and save to your computer) or you can listen to the whole show online,...
Why is India still hungry?
Contrasting Devlali, a town where no one sleeps, with Ganne, where children are eating mud, Sonologue contributed two pieces to a special show of South Asia Wired on hunger.
Pink Guests in Maximum City
At Sewri, an industrial suburb near Mumbai, you can find a treat for tired eyes. Along the backdrop of industry and with the whistle of a train ringing through the air, like rose petals clustered on glass, you can see a flock of real live flamingos – a thousand of them calmly rocking on the waves.
Bombay Talkies: CSR 2010, India
Karmayog’s third annual Corporate Social Responsibility report is out and we got an exclusive sneak peak at the findings. This year 13 companies got 4 points out of a possible 5. Who are they? And what can the rest do? And why should we, as citizens, as consumers, care?