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August 07, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Decentralized: New Waste Management Methods in Alleppey, India
A pilot project in Alleppey, Kerala, India, is bringing waste management to the people, and it’s making lives better.
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August 05, 2019 | Columbia Journalism Review
India Has Lots of Newspapers and Lots of Readers and One Big Journalism Problem
Indian newspapers feel they need ad sales agents a lot more than they need reporters. Here's why.
August 05, 2019 | Foreign Policy
India’s Media Can’t Speak Truth to Power
The nuts and bolts of the Indian media machinery are completely broken, perhaps far more than India’s global media ranking suggests. The problem is systemic.
July 05, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Navigating Alleppey’s Obstacle Course of Waste Management: ‘It’s Up to Us to Change That’
Alleppey’s canals are a dumping ground for waste, with no easy way for locals to deal with garbage and sewage. A pilot project has shown how not only to rejuvenate the canals, but the community, too.
June 25, 2019 | IndiaSpend
A 56,000-Crore Rupee 'Afforestation' Fund Threatens India’s Indigenous Communities
India destroys thousands of acres of forest each year, loss supposedly offset by a compensatory afforestation scheme. But the scheme, now a new law, is undermining the rights of indigenous communities.
June 18, 2019 | Lapham's Quarterly
Government Work
India's Ministry of Happiness promised to improve the lives of its citizens. But did it work, or was it merely a marketing campaign gone awry?
June 11, 2019 | VQR Online
Election Season in Varanasi
A visit to India's holy city of Varanasi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is renovating Hindu holy sites.
May 31, 2019 | Field Notes
Alleppey: From Littered Canals to Vibrant Neighborhood
In the Indian town of Alleppey, miles of canals run littered with trash. A project to rejuvenate not only these urban rivers but the spaces around it is making a difference.
May 24, 2019 | Field of Vision, The Guardian
The Hour of Lynching: Vigilante Violence in India
This Pulitzer Center-supported documentary examines attacks on Muslim dairy farmers in India by Hindu vigilantes who accuse them of smuggling cows for slaughter.
April 15, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
A Day in Delhi's Resettlement Colonies
India's capital, New Delhi struggles to address the city's growing housing crisis.
April 15, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Housing Rights Activists in Delhi Redefine 'Women's Issues'
In New Delhi, informal housing residents are being shipped off to remote edges of the city for 'resettlement' in relocation colonies. This is the story of one colony, Baprola.
April 15, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
'Did They Send Us Here To Die?': Housing Rights at a Crossroads in India's Capital
Women in Delhi's informal housing settlements fight for their rights and redefine "women's issues" in the process.
PBS NewsHour Weekend 'Future of Food' Series
Can we create a nutritious and affordable food system in a way that’s green and fair? PBS NewsHour Weekend’s "Future of Food" international series reports on work by people who think they have solutions.
The World Without Wildlife—South Asia
Tigers and elephants are beloved in the West, but these creatures pose a threat to the livelihoods and lives of people who must live with them.
Kerala: How to Waste
Alleppey, India, a tropical, tourist town connected by streams and canals, is facing the challenge of cleaning its water while dealing with the effects of climate change.
The Hour of Lynching: Vigilante Violence in India
Returning home after buying two milch cows, dairy farmer Rakbar Khan was lynched by a mob of “cow vigilantes”. His wife seeks meaning in mourning his death, while his perpetrators deny it.
No Journalism Left In Rural India?
More Indians live in rural areas than the entire population of Europe. What does it mean for them if journalism dies a painful death?
Modi's Greatest Threat
In the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sweeping reelection last May, journalist Maddy Crowell looks at the wide-ranging voices of dissent in India – the people and places that are working to defend the image of a pluralistic and tolerant India against the swelling tide of Hindu nationalism.
India's 'Compensatory' Forests
India is addressing deforestation by creating thousands of 'compensatory afforestation' projects. But is this big-ticket scheme a greenwash and a land grab?
Disabled Children of Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Reports of congenital disabilities are significantly higher in the northern part of Bhopal, where the 1984 Union Carbide accident occurred, than in the rest of India.
The Anti-Trafficking ‘Heroes’ Who Lock Up Women
U.S.-backed anti-trafficking shelters in India claim to rescue women from sexual slavery. But women kept against their will in these institutions say they are worse than prisons.
India's Depleting Rainforests
Overshadowed by the Rohingya crisis, another event is unfolding along the Indo-Myanmar border. This is the story of fast-depleting rainforests in the world's second most populous country.
The Future of Family Planning in India
India will soon be the most populous country in the world. Innovators throughout the country are creating new tools to help families stay small while taking control of their reproductive destinies.
In These Hills, Our Gods and Our Futures
In Odisha in eastern India, Arko Datto and Raghu Karnad cover the resistance of Dongria Kondh women to industrial interests that want to exploit their sacred hills for bauxite reserves.
January 19, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Hannah Harris Green
Learn about family planning in India with reporter Hannah Harris Green.
October 22, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Raghu Karnad
Raghu Karnad reported on the vast scale of residential schooling for tribal children in India—and the cost it exacts on fragile tribal cultures and heritage.
October 09, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Aarti Singh and Jake Naughton
Aarti Singh and Jake Naughton discuss their work exploring the strange limbo of India's LGBTQ community.
July 17, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Annalisa Merelli
How does a school for poor girls in rural India crack the patriarchal system? Annalisa Merelli discusses her reporting project "The Girl Effect."
April 18, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Daniel Brook
Daniel Brook reports on the building of instant, modern cities in the developing world and examines the effects of major infrastructure projects on citizens living in Mexico, China, and India.
December 15, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Wes Bruer
A freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, Wes Bruer received a Pulitzer Center grant to pursue a story of a unique counterterrorism program being implemented by the U.S. State Dept in Mumbai, India.
August 07, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Maddy Crowell and Sara Hylton
Meet the journalists behind the Kashmir Rail Line project as they discuss their train ride through Jammu and Kashmir—and tell us what went wrong.
June 02, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Negar Azimi
As new museums and universities are erected in the Gulf, Negar Azimi reports on the complexities surrounding the use of low-wage migrant labor, with a focus on a group of artist-activists.
April 30, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Vince Beiser
"The most important solid substance on earth," Vince Beiser tells us, is sand—used to build skyscrapers and shopping malls from Boston to Beijing. But the world is running out.
January 24, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Lisa Palmer
I went to India to examine the country’s efforts to build a more resilient food system in the face of climate change.
How can we help agriculture help us?
January 06, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Joanne Silberner
What does it take to address mental illnesses? See what some folks in India are doing.
October 15, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Daniel Moore and Michael Henninger
Business reporter Daniel Moore and photographer Michael Henninger traveled to India for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to write about efforts to scale up clean sources of power.
June 14, 2019 | General news
Beyond Religion: Faith and Civil Society
Panelists discuss how religion can reinforce divisions between social groups in Israel, Northern Ireland, and Indian-Americans in the United States.
April 08, 2019 | Project news
Limbo for India's LGBTQ Community: Outreach Efforts
A short, immersive video of the "Both Sides of the Veil" exhibition, showcasing the work of Jake Naughton and Aarti Singh for "Limbo for India's LGBTQ Community".
August 17, 2018 | Education news
Joining Paul Salopek on the Trail, Two Exemplary Scouts Put Slow Journalism Into Practice
Two scouts who won a Pulitzer Center slow journalism competition had the opportunity to accompany grantee Paul Salopek on his Out of Eden Walk in Northern India. Now, they have put what they learned into practice.
August 16, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: When Pollution Kills
This week: air pollution kills over 4 million people each year, Rohingya survivors tell their stories, and Putin is building his ties in Africa.
June 28, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Teaching Feminism in the World's Poorest Classrooms
This week: discussing feminism and access to education, proposing creative education projects to National Geographic, and explaining the placebo's power.
June 21, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: What It's Like to Be Part of India's Queer Community
This week: exploring portraits of LGBTQ+ people in India, proposing creative education projects to National Geographic, and examining unique challenges and opportunities for youth peacebuilders.
May 25, 2018 | Awards
Multiple Student Fellows Selected for 2017 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards
Several Student Fellows are awarded the 2017 Society of Professional Journalists regional Mark of Excellence Awards.
May 08, 2018 | General news, Education news
Indian Trails: Two Days on the Out of Eden Walk
For a brief period, the Out of Eden Walk becomes a traveling caravan, as teenagers and adults join Paul Salopek in the Punjab to practice slow journalism together.
April 12, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Too Young to Wed Documentary and Discussion
This week: discussing a documentary on child marriage, examining religion and culture's interplay with environmentalism in China, and celebrating our award-winning student fellows.
April 04, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: The Fighting Words Poetry Contest
This week: announcing a student poetry contest and workshop opportunity, coping with glacier melt in the Himalayas, and finding the intersections of arts and journalism in Winston-Salem.
April 03, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: Pakistan and India are Becoming Nuclear Rivals
This week: Why Pakistan and India are equipping their submarines with nuclear-tipped missiles, what life is like for ethnic minority Vietnamese living in Cambodia, and how armed groups have filled a power vacuum in the Central African Republic.
January 17, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: Witch Hunts Today
This week: Indian women fight back against witch hunts, Bolivia's child labor laws struggle to combat abuse, and the lives of Filipino women whose government killed their loved ones for drug use.
December 27, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Evaluating Climate Change's Impact on Individuals and Ecosystems
Students will evaluate how communities rely on their ecosystems for survival and climate change's impact on their ability to do so by examining the Meitei people's relationship to Loktak Lake.
October 04, 2018 | High School, College
Evaluating Environmental Reporting at Home and Around the World
What should environmental reporting accomplish, and what creative approaches can journalists take to meeting their goal? Students reflect on these questions and plan a reporting project of their own.
July 12, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Teaching Feminism in the World's Poorest Classrooms [10 minute read + lesson ideas]
Students explore text and photos (including Instagram stories) about a school for girls in rural India in order to spark conversation about access to education and feminism in their communities.
June 27, 2018 | Middle School, High School
What It's Like to Be Part of India's Queer Community [5 minute read + photos]
Discussion and activity ideas for a lesson exploring the re-criminalization of homosexuality in India through portrait photography.
April 11, 2018 | High School, College
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides [Documentary Screening and Discussion]
Stephanie Sinclair's documentary short is an investigation of child marriage and a call to action. In this lesson, students view the film and discuss root causes of child marriage and solutions,...
April 02, 2018 | All Grades
10 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day, we've compiled our top ten lesson plans that feature reporting on how communities around the world are responding to diverse environmental issues.
March 21, 2018 | Middle School, High School
Young People's Revolutions: Examining Youth Movements Around the World
This lesson pools resources on youth movements in 4 countries and asks students to examine: what matters to young people the world over, what matters to you, and how do you fit into a global picture?
March 07, 2018 | All Grades
5 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Women's History Month
In celebration of Women's History Month, we've compiled our top five lesson plans that feature reporting on women's rights and the ways women are fighting for them.
October 03, 2017 | High School, College
Toxic Business: Pollution, Industry, and Health in India
Students will learn about tannery and e-waste pollution in India and the connection with American consumer goods. They will design a presentation based on what they learn.
July 24, 2017 | All Grades
Telling Science Stories: Data Visualization
This lesson shows students how journalists use data visualization to effectively communicate scientific issues—and directs students to create their own projects using the mapping platform CartoDB.
June 19, 2017 | All Grades
Resources for the University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators 2017
This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
January 24, 2017 | Middle School, High School
Widowhood and Women's Rights
Students learn about the legal, political, cultural, and religious factors that impact the treatment of widows in India, Uganda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
