Mother Teresa Made Him Believe He Could Fly — And He Did
Gautam Lewis has had the sort of life that could spring from the pages of a fairy tale. Afflicted with polio at 18 months, he was taken in by Mother Teresa when he was 3. He doesn't know all the...
View ArticleIn India, Trump's Business Interests Raise Anticipation And Questions
The Trump Organization has more interests in India — at least five — than anywhere else outside North America. With an ever-increasing taste for luxury, India offers the Trump brand a lucrative market,...
View ArticleIndia Wants To Go Cashless. But It's Easier Said Than Done
Imagine living in a world where you need cash to buy virtually everything — from food to clothes to a new home. Yet you have no cash. The best you can do is stand in line at the bank for hours in the...
View ArticleFemale Wrestlers Are Unlikely Heroines Of Bollywood's Biggest Smash
A blockbuster Bollywood movie is raking in millions and trying to change entrenched gender roles in India. It's set in Haryana state, where the sex ratio of newborns skews heavily toward boys....
View ArticleWhat Can India Teach Us About Abolishing High-Value Currency?
Ever since Genghis Khan used tree bark as legal tender and backed it up by threatening anyone who didn't use it with death, governments have manipulated paper money to suit their purposes. When India...
View ArticleIndian IT Outsourcers Anxious Over Potential Changes To H-1B Visas
With the Trump administration vowing to tighten rules for skilled workers entering the United States, India's software services companies are worried. Indian IT giants outsource tens of thousands of...
View ArticleMuslim Women In India Ask Top Court To Ban Instant Divorce
Married at 14 and divorced by 16, Seema Parveen had a marriage as brutal as it was short. Now 42, Parveen remembers her husband threatening to hurl her from the balcony of their home. She blinks back...
View ArticleA New Generation Of Kashmir Rappers Vents Its Rage In The Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS971lu-bcc Rap music has found an outlet in Kashmir, the border state between India and Pakistan. The Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, tucked in the Himalayas, might...
View ArticleFeminist Films Push Boundaries In India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tabnM-ZwqiY Typically, India's Bollywood film industry depicts older women as maternal and virtuous. Younger ones often are eye candy, propping up male leads. But a...
View ArticleIndia's Tech Firms Face Fundamental Shift From IT To More Advanced Tech
Madeshwaran Subramani is the human face of IT disruption in India. He recalls being recently summoned to the HR office of his employer in southern city of Coimbatore at 11 a.m. By noon, the 29-year-old...
View ArticleWill Giving The Ganges Human Rights Protect The Polluted River?
Small cradles of chrysanthemums, illuminated by a single candle, flicker in the moonlight, bobbing along the fast-flowing Ganges River . They are offerings. For hundreds of millions of Hindus around...
View ArticleAs India's Climate Changes, Farmers In The North Experiment With New Crops
On a recent weekday, Vamsi Komarala guides me up to the rooftop of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, where he teaches physics. Fields of solar panels adorn the buildings. I...
View ArticleAfter 'Guru Of Bling' Sentencing, Indian State Stays On Alert For Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scuWiXG5bh8 Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh wept and begged forgiveness as a judge read out the sentence against him on Monday: 20 years for raping two young disciples in 2002...
View ArticleFear Of Toxic Smog Leads India To Limit Diwali Fireworks
India is set to celebrate Diwali this week, but the Indian capital could be in for a different sort of celebration. Once illuminated with clay lamps, the festival of lights has morphed into a festival...
View ArticleIn Hyderabad, Indian Entrepreneurs Size Up Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump was welcomed as American royalty in India this week at a global mashup of innovators and entrepreneurs. She led the U.S. delegation to the 8th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which...
View ArticleWelcome To 'The Cleanest Village In India'
It bills itself as the "God's Own Garden," and this tribal village tucked in India's remote northeast is unlike any other in the country. Mawlynnong is free from what plagues so much of rural and urban...
View ArticleA Lifetime Of Planting Trees On A Remote River Island: Meet India's Forest Man
On a journey to the little known Northeast region of India, you may encounter a dizzying array of traditional tribes, rugged beauty and wildlife, including the rare white rhinos. It's here we discover...
View ArticleTea Farmer In India Leads Charge For Organic, Evades The Charge Of Elephants
As you clutch a cuppa for a bit of winter warmth, spare a moment to consider the elaborate process that goes into producing that seemingly simple sip of tea. In the biggest tea-growing region in India,...
View ArticleBhutan's Alcohol-Fueled Archery: It's Nothing Like The Olympics
The host of the Winter Olympics, South Korea, excels in the summer game of archery. They grabbed gold medals in all four categories in Rio. But the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan may be less than...
View ArticleSurvivors Recall Deadly Earthquake And Tsunami In Indonesia
For thousands of Indonesians traumatized by the earthquake and tsunami that struck the Sulawesi island city of Palu, there are signs of recovery. International aid has begun arriving, power has been...
View Article
