May 09 Take a 360 degree stroll through a ‘Trash Mountain’ By Mike Fritz The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, India stretches across some 70 acres of land. The area has been dubbed “Trash Mountain” because it holds 10 million tons of garbage now piled higher than the city’s skyline. Workers can earn about… Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch 7:27 This innovator is trying to make sanitary pads affordable for women in India By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Mike Fritz Arunachalam Murugananthan is known as India's pad man. Breaking a strict taboo in India's tradition-bound society, Murugananthan worked to perfect an affordable sanitary pad in hope of starting a movement to help women in the developing world. Special correspondent Sam… Continue watching
Apr 11 How a chance encounter turned into a fashion company that helps women By Larisa Epatko A misunderstanding with a stranger on a train -- and the conversation that ensued -- shaped Julie Martin's future business. Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch 7:02 Tackling India’s towering landfills takes cultural innovation By PBS News Hour In Delhi, India, the capital of the world's fastest growing economy, there's a towering symbol of the environmental cost of development: tons of festering, toxic trash, piled up 10 stories high, with more and more added every day. Efforts have… Continue watching
Mar 09 Photo: Celebrating Holi, the Spring ‘festival of colors’ By News Desk Students at the Institute of Management Studies play with colors to celebrate Holi, on March 9, in Noida, India. Holi is a Hindu spring festival in India and Nepal, also known as the "festival of colors" or the "festival of… Continue reading
Mar 02 Photo: Playing the beautiful game amid Mumbai’s dust By News Desk Boys fight for the ball during their soccer practice at a park in Mumbai, India on March 2, 2017. Continue reading
Feb 27 5 stories from last week that deserve a second look By Joshua Barajas, Erica R. Hendry, Iman Smith Here are five important stories that (largely) sidestep the president's every move. Continue reading
Feb 20 Watch 8:32 Fighting to breathe in the world’s most polluted city By PBS News Hour Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world's most polluted city. Carbon dioxide, ozone and fine carbon particles get trapped over India's capital, mostly due to dirty fuels, causing long-term health consequences such as lung and heart disease. Special correspondent Fred… Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch 5:51 Depicting colonialism and globalization through art ‘full of contradiction’ By PBS News Hour A “Wind Sculpture” by visual artist Yinka Shonibare MBE was recently installed in front of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. It’s the seventh in Shonibare's series of vibrantly colored and patterned public artworks that are made… Continue watching
Dec 15 Column: Several governments are destroying their own bank notes. Here’s why. By Vikram Mansharamani Nov. 8 will be remembered in India for a long time to come. In a televised speech to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that cash notes representing 86 percent of the country’s circulating currency would no longer be… Continue reading