Fighting period stigma, one cartoon at a time "It just makes you feel like it's a kind of punishment growing up." Taboos around menstruation remain strong in India. In some parts of the country,...
Ending period poverty At this year’s Academy Awards a film called “Period. End of Sentence” won the Oscar for best short documentary. The movie focused on the...
An Indian evangelist for toilet usage An Indian sociologist has made ending open defecation his life's work Try to imagine: you feel the urge to relief yourself. But instead of your...
India’s toilet boom The the practice of outdoor defecation is a major cause of diarrheal diseases that kill about 2,200 children a day - more than die from HIV/AIDS,...
Capturing South Asia’s child marriages "She was supposed to get married at 13 to a boy that she never met before." For many couples across the world, marriage is a romantic union between...
Halting India’s witch hunts [rebroadcast] For many, witch trials may seem like a relic of early colonial America. But in fact witch-hunting is still a feature of rural life today in many...
The market in human organs The imbalance between the supply of organs for transplant and the demand for them can be staggering. There are about 75,000 people active on the...
India’s girl shortage [rebroadcast] In the next decade, India may pass China to become the world’s most populous country. But there’s something odd about India’s population....
Project Exile: Pakistani reporter moves to France after kidnap attempt "I was resisting and they kept hitting me with the butts of their guns." Jumping out of a car to escape being abducted at gunpoint by the Pakistani...
Climate change in South Asia Climate change is already having big effects on southern Asia. Deadly heat waves like one that killed 3,500 people in India and Pakistan in 2015...
