Stories about India from February, 2008
India: Widows on Valentine's
An apt post for Valentine's Day, The Rational Fool on the plight of Indian widows and the religious sanction that allows society to ostracize them.
India: Blogs and Students
contentsutra.com points to IBNLive, a television news channel in India – launching a blogging platform for students.
India: Regional Identities
Musings discusses the recent controversy in the state of Maharastra, India – where the issue of insider-outsider has brought up interesting questions of identity and economic contribution.
Hindi: Water, dowry, the stock market and others
Global Warming is something thats affecting us all. But even in this regard there are different camps. Some believe that its a very important concern and something should be done about it while some believe that its not as big or critical concern as is made out of it and...
India: Language and Identity
Language, economic development and identity explored in the context of Hindi in India at E=mc^2.
India: Religion and the U.S
Indian Muslims Blog explores the issue of religion in the presidential election in the U.S.
Hindi Blogosphere: Ad Revenue, Bollywood and other stories
A number of bloggers writing in English have no problem in putting up adverts and a lot of them generate decent enough revenue from their blogs. But the problem comes when you don't blog in English but in some other language as your advertising options start narrowing down. Ad revenue...
Carnival: Videos from around the world
One way to know about a culture, is to see how they celebrate and why. Many countries share a common festival, the carnival, and each country gives a distinctive flavour to the celebration. Carnival usually takes place during the weeks prior to Lent in Catholic countries, and it's usually a time to revel, enjoy and feast before the 40 days of fasting and prayer in preparation of Easter begin. Citizen videos show us how carnival season was spent this year in Bolivia, French Guyana, Goa, India and Croatia.
India: After Super Tuesday
Indian Muslims Blog has an update on the electoral politics in the US, right after Super Tuesday.
India: Snow in Shimla
As North India reels under a cold wave, myHimachal brings us photographs from Shimla – snowed under.
India: Driving and Culture
Driving a Cultural Change has a series of videos intended to educate the Indian driver – and hopefully reduce the chaos on the streets.
India: Eastern Promises and Bollywood
A wonderful set of photographs at Trivial Matters – focusing on women from Russia and Eastern Europe who work in the Bollywood film industry in India.
India: Etiquette for Migrants
A proposal in the U.K to educated migrant communities on etiquette doesn't sit very well with The Brat, The Bean and Bedlam.
India: Obama or Clinton?
Reflecting on Super Tuesday in the U.S, Blowin’ In The Wind takes a closer look at the difference between Obama and Clinton.
India: Run-up to Super Tuesday
Indian Muslims Blog rounds up the process of presidential elections in the U.S. as of a day before Super Tuesday.
India: How the US elects
Elections in the US can appear quite muddled-up to an outsider. confused of calcutta explains the various stages of the presidential elections.
India: Kids, poverty and education
Weight of Silence on getting disadvantaged kids in India to read.
India: Goons and Politics
India Daily on Raj Thackeray – a politician who seems to send goons out to resolve all issues.
India: Copyright and the Law
Law and Other Things on Supreme Court of India ruling that there can be no copyright in the raw text of court judgments/decisions.
Young citizen journalists getting into the act in Kolkata
Last time we featured the Neighborhood Diaries project, participants from Kolkata’s slums were learning more about their neighborhood. In this week's feature we read their profiles of local characters and find out more about their daily lives. The weekly workshop also got more interesting with enactments of skits regarding their neighborhood's problems and the brainstorming of solutions.
