Archive for August, 2010
Real India: On the Couch with Sudhir Kakar
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Sudhir Kakar (17 minutes, 8 mb mp3)
NEW DELHI — Sudhir Kakar has built a Freudian bridge to the alternate universe that is India. The India he writes and talks about is different not only from our world but also from its own branding. “Indians,” he …
Real India: Tarun Tejpal's heart-ache for "the idea of India"
Real India: An esteemed New Delhi magazine editor, Tarun Tejpal, mourns the loss of "the idea of India."
Real India: The BBC's Mark Tully on Poverty and "Tinderwood"
Real India: Mark Tully, the BBC's beloved news voice in New Delhi, says the "New India" is sitting on a tinderbox of poverty.
Real India: Shashi Tharoor, the 'NRI' who came home
Real India: Shashi Tharoor is the global Indian who came home to run for office and win a Cabinet post. Then the fun and the infighting began...
Real India: M. A. Baby and "Kerala Communism"
Real India: In the capital of the most (maybe the only) successful Communist state of the last half-century, Education Minister M. A. Baby credits a century of history in Kerala.
Real India: "I’m the Village Guy"
Real India: An energetic 24-year-old Hindu man and "village guy" explains why he's choosing the Old India after sampling the New.
Real India: Novelist Paul Zacharia Shares His "Confusion"
Real India: Novelist Paul Zacharia shares his "confusion" about the new India.
Real India: Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore
Real India: In one of big slums of Bangalore, public squalor and private affluence are both hallmarks of the New India.
Real India: At Koshy’s Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore
Real India: Koshy's Cafe in Bangalore is where the talk blossoms -- of the "second wave" of India's entrepreneurial boom and much else.
Real India: Confidence-building in the new "Women’s Work"
We're listening in on the workshop/training-center of Ubuntu-at-Work, an NGO that empowers women through entrepreneurship training. Sustainable work for women is a remedy, founder Vibha Pinglé tells us, for over-population, family inequities, hunger, hopelessness and poverty.
