Vimala Bahuguna: Life-long Activist against Tehri Dam

Based on an Interview with Vimala Bahuguna: Life-long Activist against Tehri Dam Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, Uttarkhand 3, December 2010 When the … More

Of Gender and Farming: India’s Mandakini Valley

This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell “What was her village before she was married?” I asked. “kyu? [Why?]” I heard a … More

India’s Tehri Dam: Stopping the Flow of Life?

This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell “There’s no means to live here anymore,” said Mooni Devi, a 42-year-old farmer in … More

Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity

This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Bishnupriya Dutt Sage Publications In its very fragmentariness, Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers … More

Seeds of Change

I found Dr. Vandana Shiva’s first book, or rather I found a Xerox copy of her first book, taped together … More

Ode to the Delhi Metro

This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell My fear of Delhi began sometime in the wee hours of the morning a … More

Debunking Development in Rural India

This post originally appeared in Project Groundswell When I arrived at my host family’s house in rural India, I immediately wondered … More

Doha, Qatar – The New Bicycle City?

I rode my bicycle to and from work on the streets of Ahmedabad, India. A city where out of 100 … More

Braking News: 1 Bus, 2 Girls, 15 Thousand Kilometers, 715 Million Votes

This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Sunetra Choudhury Hatchette India Sunetra Choudhury’sBraking News takes the reader on a trip across India … More

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity

By Pavan K. Varma Penguin Books Pavan K. Varma’s most recent book, Becoming Indian, argues that cultural freedom has eluded formerly colonized … More