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‘They Are My Sisters’: Diary of a Land Rights Activist in Rural India—The New Humanitarian
Kamala Damor, or Sister Kamala, works with women and girls in rural Gujarat to help them access their right to property and inheritance. She tells her story to Chhavi Sachdev. "On Mondays, I leave home at 9 a.m. so I can be in Meghraj town by 10, when the land...
UNICEF’s Good News About Child Marriage Isn’t Quite As Good As It Sounds—NPR Goats and Soda
A report released this month by UNICEF has been cause for celebration in India, the country with the highest number of child marriages in South Asia each year. According to the newly released data, the annual number of child marriages in the country has dropped by...
Game draws attention to India’s trafficked girls—DW
Leena Kejriwal's art installations are hiding in plain sight across India. In small towns and big cities, stark black silhouettes of little girls are spray-painted on buildings, railway station walls, the boundaries of schools and in crowded markets. They tell the...
How Ancient Grains and a Seed Bank Turned Life Around for Rural Women—The New Humanitarian
When Navali Nayak sowed her millet in 2007, she did it in secret. She held the seeds in a fold of cloth at the waist of her saree and dropped them intermittently into the furrows her husband, Magan, was ploughing, just a few feet ahead of her. He believed she was...
This Indian composer’s first hit was a song about Boroline. Now she’s an internet sensation.—Public Radio International
Composer Sawan Dutta had scored the music for two Bollywood movies. After meetings with movie executives, long nights in the studio, these two projects would be her most high-profile work yet. And then, disaster. One film lost distribution. The other lost its...
Cross-border meals connect people from countries in conflict—Public Radio International
India and Pakistan have fought four wars and threatened each other with nuclear weapons for decades. Like most neighbors, they have differences — primarily in religion — but they do overlap in some areas, such as language, dress and, of course, food. The cuisines...
Mending Our Disposable Culture—BBC People Fixing the World
Volunteers around the world regularly get together to fix other people’s broken stuff free of charge. Reporter Nick Holland visits an event called a Repair Café in the Netherlands and links up with Chhavi Sachdev who meets a team running a similar workshop in...
The 12 best things to do in Pune—Time Out
Used to living in the shadow of Mumbai, which is located only three hours away by car, this Indian destination is exciting in its own right: there are a ton of fun things to do in Pune. Thanks to its massive student population and the influx of expats who’ve...
Oldest Competitive Runner: Man Kaur—BBC Outlook
At 102-years-old, Man Kaur is India’s oldest competitive runner. In fact, she’s a world record holder. But for the first ninety years of her life, Man didn’t run at all. Outlook’s Chhavi Sachdev has been to meet her and to talk about her late-flowering...
The 15 best markets in Mumbai—Time Out
Did you know that each neighbourhood in the skinny island city of Mumbai boasts a government-appointed area for vegetable and fruit sellers? If it’s cupcake moulds, antique gewgaws, wedding bangles or other Indian trinkets you’re looking for,...
Biking up the Himalayas blind—DW WorldLink
When Mumbai's Ekinath Khedekar started to go blind at the age of seven, he knew he wouldn't let his disability hamper his sense of adventure — even cycling up the Himalayas to the highest mountain pass in the world. Listen to the podcast. Ladakh is high on most...
The 12 best things to do in Udaipur—Time Out
This city is often called the ‘Venice of the East’ and while this may be a slight exaggeration, the best things to do in Udaipur, all within a strones throw of numerous lakes and bridges, certainly lend it a unique charm. Seemingly frozen in time, this...