If You See Dirty Water, Don’t Just Gripe. Talk To The Cloud! NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

Water stagnating at a construction site. A dwindling number of mangroves along the shore. Lakes choked with algae and hyacinth. Sewage pipes leaking into the sea. These are common sights in India. Until recently, the best people could do to try to draw attention to...

Fake Medical News Can Now Be Fact-Checked In India NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

#fakenews isn’t just a U.S. thing. And it isn’t just about politics. In India people are putting their health at risk by following spurious advice dispensed on forwards on Whatsapp, the phone-based messaging app. Here’s one popular hoax making the...

Why Did India Have Ten Million Fewer Childhood Deaths Than Predicted?—NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Narratives & Features, Portfolio

The study has a depressing name: The Million Death Study. But its latest set of data, published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday, is anything but depressing when it comes to the topic of childhood deaths in India. India has the tragic distinction of...

Why Does India Lead The World In Deaths From TB? NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio

For the second year in a row, India has landed the dubious distinction of being number one in the world for deaths from tuberculosis: 423,000 TB patients died in the year 2016. That’s a third of the world’s 1.4 million death toll. India, of course, is not...

At Age 101, She’s A World Champ Runner NPR Goats and Soda

by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Essays & Commentaries, Portfolio

Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings. Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers until about 7 a.m. Sometimes she goes to the Gurdwara, the place of worship for Sikhs, other times she prays at home....