by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
The numbers are depressing: Every 8 minutes a girl goes missing in India. Most of these girls are trafficked for sex, beggary or domestic labor. Unofficial counts put the number of victims of sex trafficking in India at 16 million — not counting the girls from...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
According to a Muslim custom that is rooted in tradition but not Islamic law, men have to say just three words to their wives if they want to dissolve their marriages. “Talaq, talaq, talaq†— and he’s divorced. But in India, a group of women petitioned...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
Mumbai has 72 miles of coastline, some of it covered in mangroves and some of it sandy or rocky — but none of it is clean. There isn’t a beach culture here. It’s not a place for gathering and tanning — more often it’s a...
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...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio
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...
