Out in the open
By Marta Franco (class of 2013) MUMBAI, India, April 2012—After more than a century in the shadows, India’s homosexuals emerge from the closet. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Mumbai’s western suburb of...
View ArticleElectrifying India: Energy Innovation in the Countryside
By Mark Oltmanns, for TIME Video (class of 2012) BIHAR, India, April 2012—How an innovative, sustainable energy source brings the 21st century to rural India. — See Mark’s story for TIME Video.
View ArticleFreedom for Indian girls, with bikes
By Molly Oleson (class of 2013) BIHAR, India, April 2012—Imagine that you are a young girl growing up in West Bengal, India. Your village smells of spices, and coconuts and pineapples hang from the...
View ArticleRenting Wombs: Gay couples seek surrogate mothers in India
By Lisette Mejia (class of 2012) MUMBAI, India, April 2012—In the past few years, gay men from the U.S. have increasingly traveled to India to have children through surrogacy. This process usually...
View ArticlePitching Baseball to India
By Laith Agha (class of 2012) VARANASI, India, April 2012—When Dinesh Patel was a teenager, he figured that if he were to make a name for himself, he would do it with his arm. Growing up outside...
View ArticleAn unlikely savior for Indian coffee farmers
By Brittany Schell (class of 2013) BANGALORE, India, April 2012—In a country plagued for over a decade by farmer suicides, Seattle-based Starbucks, the global coffee scapegoat, could be an unlikely...
View ArticleDefenseless to defenders
By Ashley Hopkinson (class of 2012) Angela Cardoz DELHI, India, April 2010—India’s growing ranks of millionaires want a new kind of security and status symbol—a female bodyguard. That desire is...
View ArticleA model for India: HIV/AIDS education
By Patty Espinosa (class of 2012) KOLHAPUR, India, April 2012—India is a conservative country. Talking about sex is taboo, and in remote areas of the country, so is talking about HIV and AIDS. The...
View ArticleA Push to Support Language Diversity in India
By Hadley Robinson, for PRI’s The World (class of 2012) Latu Rutia, 80, speaks Rathwee, the language of the Rathwa people. GUJARAT, India, July 5, 2012—In western India, in the state of Gujarat, lies...
View ArticleThe resurgence of field hockey in India
By Kevin Fixler, for The Atlantic (class of 2012) DELHI, India, July 19, 2012—In India, cricket is the national obsession, but it is actually field hockey that is its official game, with a more deeply...
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