by chhavi | Dec 10, 2010 | Narratives & Features
This story actually ran many months ago, but we missed posting it. Disabled communities in the West are still fighting or truly equal rights, but they’re a long way ahead of India where being disabled is still seen as being less than “normalâ€. For Lata Umrania...
by chhavi | Nov 1, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries
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. You can listen to...
by chhavi | Oct 15, 2010 | Narratives & Features
For PRI’s The World program’s web site, multimedia journalist extraordinaire Lauren Farrow and I did an audio slideshow about the last day of Ganeshotsav – Anant Chaturdashi, which is when idols of Ganpati are immersed in water. To find out more...
by chhavi | Oct 12, 2010 | Essays & Commentaries
A piece I did on how Mumbai is lawfully a silence zone and how ludicrous that really is – along with what we face every day. Including hideously loud suprabhatam aartis at the crack of dawn on a Sunday! You can listen to the piece along with a reaction to it and...
by chhavi | May 3, 2010 | Narratives & Features, Podcast: Bombay Talkies
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...
