International Political Will

Once again, Mumbai proved that letting a few voices in the media frame our values and fears is not the way to live peaceably with 20 million neighbors. It’s a lesson that, in a globalized world, the rest of us would do well to learn.
Shahrukh Khan, or SRK as he is often referred to for [...]

If you need a taxi to the Mumbai airport from the neighborhood of Vashi, Sonu is the driver you want.
A ride to the airport from my area can take hours (though it’s probably only about 20 miles) – there’s a toll bridge to cross, no highway (so single-lane city streets are the only route), and [...]

In light of Senator Harry Reid’s racist remarks about Obama (get it – in “light” of!), and Rush Limbaugh’s overt racist comments about Haiti, I bring you: “Racism: Bollywood Edition.”
When President Obama was elected, it was hailed in India as a sign of racial equality - as if it were some kind of achievement on [...]

When you hear “third world labor exploitation,” a few standard images come to mind: sweatshops full of hungry people making Nike tennis shoes 18 hours a day for pennies in Indonesia; young mothers sewing $25 T-shirts for The Gap in return for a few cents in Honduras; children chained to a loom making carpets in [...]

Garbage is a problem that has plagued India for longer than most people have been alive.
Gandhi addressed it in his day, noting Indian’s penchant for keeping their houses immaculate yet caring little for anything outside of their doors. And this was 50 years before plastic.

Any area in India where people live is cursed with plastic. [...]