Here’s What Happens When Thousands of Fireworks are Set Off in the World’s Most Polluted City Georgina Rannard October 31, 2016 Residents of the Indian capital Delhi woke up this morning to record-breaking smog suffocating the city. Millions of people last night set off fireworks to celebrate Diwali - the Hindu festival of light - but revelers are paying the price today as air pollutan...
Somini Sengupta: The World’s Youngest Country Faces Some Serious Growing Pains Mark Leon Goldberg March 21, 2016 Somini Sengupta is the United Nations correspondent for the New York Times. She's the author of the new book The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young which tells the story of a huge demographic challenge facing India today, where 365 million peo...
Episode 62: Fareed Zakaria Mark Leon Goldberg April 27, 2015 Fareed Zakaria shares stories about his upbringing in India and the influence of his die-hard pro-American mother and Indian nationalist father. He discusses his intellectual journey from a middle class childhood in India to getting getting a PhD at Harvard an...
The Historic Implications of Obama’s Trip to India Mark Leon Goldberg January 22, 2015 President Obama visits India this week. This means that for the first time in history, a US President will visit India twice while in office. Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institute discusses the symbolic importance and concrete policy outcomes that this trip m...
The Foreign Policy Implications of India’s Elections Mark Leon Goldberg May 15, 2014 How Narendra Modi's victory will change India's relationship with the world.
The Human Race Reached a Huge Milestone Today and You Probably Did Not Even Know It Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2014 India is three years Polio-free.
UN Leaders: Are You Thinking Enough About Gender Equality? Tabby Biddle September 18, 2013 How to rescue the cause of ending gender based violence.
Not on A-1: Toilets in India, Or Lack Thereof (Video) Mark Leon Goldberg April 30, 2013 Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people don't have access to toilets, especially in rural villages. The lack of sanitation is the cause of one in every ten deaths. With help from the World Bank, the Indian has introduced a sanitation campaign called 'No Toilet, No Bride', to educate villagers about proper waste disposal.
The Terrifying Spread of Resistant Tuberculosis Lois Parshley April 19, 2013 The struggle to contain TB in India, before it mutates to the harder to treat resistant kind
