Our first major campaign pushed for justice in Sri Lanka. We gained more than 100,000 supporters for this campaign. Image Copyright Amnesty International India

My alma mater, Syracuse University recently contacted me asking how my first weeks with Amnesty …

Today, August 30, marks two days. One is mundane and irrelevant, and the other is an internationally recognized day for activism.

First, it is my one-month anniversary of working with Amnesty International in India. Second, today is the International “Day …

Three weeks into our project (Artefacting, check out the intro on the Artefacting website) in Nagaland found us in one of its most remote districts, the Mon province. We were there to cover the annual Aoling Monyu Festival, a Naga festival belonging to the Konyak tribe.

Hinduism is the dominant religion in India, although of course it is the most religiously diverse country in the world, it’s still a Hindi-majority country. The Northeast is less Hindu, but the Hinduism that does exist here departs from mainstream practice in the mysticism, folklore and even black magic that is still subscribed to hearkening back to Hinduism’s roots in paganism and animism.

As published on www.globalvoicesonline.org. Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world…

The Indian media and blogosphere have been locked in fierce battle over two words: “extensively,” and “totally.” …

The corresponding article was published in The Global Urbanist. Click here to read the entire article on www.globalurbanist.com. It was the second in a two-part series on NGO and government relations in India.

“Urban Water” is the first of a two-part series on NGO and government collaboration in India. The articles were featured on The Global Urbanist.

1. India is one of the most densely populated countries on earth.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared me for the first 12 hours in the land of 1.2 billion people. I didn’t expect the herds of cows …