Posts from ‘October, 2011’

It’s a saddening experience to read Dr Binayak Sen’s letter to the Gandhi Peace Foundation refusing the Gandhi International Peace Award for 2011.
The furore the nomination caused was more becuase of a technicality in the wording of the award announcement than the fact that it was being bequeathed to a man who has proved his [...]

I just finished putting the final mixing touches on a report from our Pakistan correspondent on the Sachal Studio Orchestra, and I l loved doing it.  I’ve seen the video about 40 times I think and still haven’t tired of it. It was such a relief to report on something that’s happening in Pakistan that [...]

Chattisgarh-Net is reporting that people have spoken to the relatives of imprisoned Chattisgarh school superintendent Soni Sori who say that she has recieved electric shocks while in the custody of the Dantewada police.  She was supposed to appear in court last week, but the police claimed she had “fallen in the bathroom” and was not [...]

The case of Soni Sori and her nephew Linga Kapodi is a disturbing example of the Nasty India hidden within Emerging India.
While an old man publically refusing food in New Delhi manages to rouse the country in a passion of national pride and foot-stamping insistence that ordinary people have finally become sick of the corruption [...]

We here at Radio Netherlands Worldwide are going through a bit of soul searching these days.  You may have heard on the grapevine that our budget for 2013 has been cut by a whopping 70%.  That means in effect that out of some 350 employees - currently working in half a dozen language departments, web design and [...]