According to the U.N. Population Division, over 70 percent of Indians live in rural areas and over half of all Indians are farmers. Yet access to technology and information in many areas is limited, meaning...
“I know all about food security,” says Mitharam Maslai, a farmer from India’s Northeast highlands. “We ate only pumpkin and bamboo shoots every year for two to three weeks because we had run out of...
For the women of India’s mid-Gangetic plains, which cover most of northern and eastern India ,the road to economic prosperity is littered with stumbling blocks. First, they must overcome the limitations of their patriarchal society...
Could future wars be fought over water? “Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict,” warned Kofi Annan during his tenure as United Nations (UN)...
After recovering from an ailment, I hopped a SpiceJet flight down to Fort Cochin in the Indian state of Kerala. Wow, WHAT a difference from the north! It was just much...quieter. Don't get me wrong...
Applications are now open for the AIF William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India for the upcoming 2011-2012 program year! The early application deadline is Nov 15th, 2010 and the Final Application deadline is...
Photo courtesy of Lisa Field-Elliot of Dorrwaystraveler.com
Photo of Madina and her mother at a clinic for commercial sex workers in Rajasthan, courtesy of Lisa Field-Elliot of Doorwaystraveler.com...
Lodhi Garden, Delhi, India
Commonwealth Games at a tipping point
In the days leading up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi has been vilified in the western media for lack of preparedness, unclean facilities, unfinished and potentially unsafe...
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