Year of India
Radio Open Source is gathering the threads of modern India in this series; the conversation starts off at Brown’s “Year of India,” then goes on the road from Bangalore to Trivandrum and Delhi.
Real India: At Koshy’s Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore
Koshy’s Cafe on St. Mark’s Road in the heart of Old Bangalore is the spot where India’s sense of itself gets born again every morning in once-and-future war stories — where dreams of a “second wave” of the entrepreneurial boom underlie every other conversation …
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.
Real India: A historian’s cautions on "the Indian Century"
Ram Guha, India's favorite historian of its 63-year-old self, says there will be no Indian or Asian "century," only a great chance for India to demonstrate "our experiment in plural and democratic living."
Real India: a land soon without tigers, and maybe orchids
Boom and Doom in the Real India: environmental vigilante Suprabha Seshen links the end of tigers (and maybe orchids) with the rise of consumerism and a new middle-class prosperity in India.
Real India: Social Entrepreneurship as a Family Affair
On the road in the New India: a family of entrepreneurs recounts some Indian advantages in the globalization game.
William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs"
William Dalrymple, a resident "old hand" and literary star in the new India, says the American "Af-Pak" campaign is "on its last legs."
Vijay Iyer’s Life in Music: "Striving is the Back Story…"
Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer brings rare stuff to his music, starting with a Brahmin Indian name and heritage, and a Yale degree in physics.
This "Year of India" (9): Patrick Heller's Measure of Change
Patrick Heller talks about Kerala, Bangalore, and mainstreaming our vision of India, as part of our series, "This Year of India."
Amartya Sen: This Open-Ended "Year of India" (8)
Amartya Sen, Nobel economist, gives us a wide angle history of India.
