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The Other India X: 'A Woman Leader for the Isolated Jungle Village of Jharki Bisalpur' 17 May 2012 | 09:42 am
'When Sheila Devi was growing up in the village of Jharki Bisalpur, wild animals would frequently wander through, searching for water and food. She saw deer and wild boar, foxes, even a python. There ...
The Other India IX: 'For Some Adolescent Girls in India, a Struggle to Stay in School' 6 Apr 2012 | 01:15 am
'When 11-year-old Durga Jadav awoke to find that she’d begun to menstruate, she wondered if she’d return to school.' Read the ninth installment of my series (once again with a slide show of exclusive...
The Other India VIII: 'Child Politicians Bring Change to Rural India' 2 Mar 2012 | 10:03 am
'After Pooja decided to run for Panchayat she had to choose an electoral symbol, draw up a list of campaign promises, and give speeches. She promised to bring more children into school. “Children shou...
The Other India VII: 'A Mumbai Builder Reshapes a Neighborhood' 15 Dec 2011 | 07:31 am
'One of Mr. Gupta’s clients belongs to a caste that has traditionally grazed animals for a living. The man offloads hundreds of goats from trucks and herds them toward the slaughterhouse for 150 rupee...
Beautiful Thing: Update 9 Dec 2011 | 06:42 pm
Lots of year-end good news! Beautiful Thing is a Guardian Book of the Year, Economist Book of the Year, and the Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year 2011. It was an Observer Book of the Year, Time Ou...
The Other India VI: Child Labor's Fashionable Face 9 Dec 2011 | 06:19 pm
"Whenever we need money for clothes we ask our mothers,” he says. “Even though they wish we wouldn’t wear such low pants! But we like to stay in fashion. Before this, the style was for “half-pant” (th...
The Other India, V: 'A Teacher's Most Important Lesson' 17 Nov 2011 | 06:35 pm
'The house her employers lived in was three stories high. But all they could spare her was a corridor so snug even turning was impossible. They owned five ‘hi-fi’ cars. But she was never paid a salar...
The Other India, IV: The 'Entertainer' Caste Hangs on to What it Knows 5 Nov 2011 | 04:59 am
"The children work for the community,” Barsati’s brother, Manish, tells me. “We did the same thing when we were their age. But once we grew big, around 13, 14, we had to stop. Who gives big children m...
The Other India, III: Where are the Children? 14 Oct 2011 | 10:17 am
Rajkumar Mahto of Kirari village in West Delhi lives in a single room by an open gutter with his wife, Hema Devi, and two daughters. Contact with the sewage appears to be the cause of the sores on the...
UK Book Tour, October 14-29 10 Oct 2011 | 04:19 pm
Photo: Srinivas Kuruganti I'll be in the UK next week for a publicity tour for Beautiful Thing. I'll be appearing at book festivals, libraries, and at several great spaces for readers and writers, su...
