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Death Traps: The Bangladesh Factory Disaster
Some American companies are using unsafe Bangladeshi factories to produce their clothes, where factory collapses and fires have lead to the horrific deaths of hundreds of factory workers. Here, Sarah Stillman talks to Kalpona Akter, a former garment worker who’s trying to raise awareness: http://nyr.kr/YmJJaH
(Source: newyorker.com)
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"I’m just a man who wears a sari in pursuit of the art he loves."
— Sonia Faleiro on Mumbai’s new lavani dancers: http://nyr.kr/Yh5Dpd(Source: newyorker.com)
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I will have to be careful now…
Basharat Peer on the Ashis Nandy affair, and India’s growing intolerance: http://nyr.kr/WHBouH
Photograph by Ramesh Sharma/India Today Group/Getty.
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As the doctors cautiously revealed the details of injuries inflicted on the young woman, who needed a gut transplant as her intestines had been torn by iron rods, thousands of students from colleges and universities in the city gathered in a spontaneous protest in Delhi. Anger spread like a heat wave. In my years in Delhi as a student and a reporter, the protests against the various instances of sexual assault would be attended and lead by left-leaning women’s organizations student groups. India’s conservative middle and upper-middle classes mostly stayed home. This was different…
Basharat Peer on the fury in Delhi after the rape and murder of the 23-year old unnamed victim: http://nyr.kr/YSQPOw
Photograph by Rakash Singh/AFP/Getty.
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On Wednesday evening, the Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael accepted the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant for Humanistic Photography in a ceremony at the School of Visual Arts. The grant is awarded to support and encourage a photographer working in the spirit of the legendary photojournlaist, and van Agtmael plans to use the thirty-thousand-dollar grant to build on “Disco Night September 11,” his ongoing project on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their consequences in the United States. “As an American of the generation shouldering these wars, I feel a strong responsibility to document their cost,” van Agtmael said.
Click-through for more from Elissa Curtis on van Agtmael, and a slide show of van Agtmael’s images, along with those of Massimo Berruti, who won the W. Eugene Smith fellowship to continue his work on Pakistan. “The Dusty Path,” Berruti said, is a project “about a nation trapped between violence and political corruption. A trembling giant on the brink of a deep abyss.” Also included is work by Michael Christopher Brown, Bharat Choudhary, Jon Lowenstein, Justin Maxon, Ami Vitale, Farzana Wahidy, and Robert Yager, who were all finalists for these grants. See the slideshow.
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"If there was a positive side to the dramatic outage, it was the reminder that darkness is a reality for more than three hundred million Indians, who have no access to electricity. It might also remind the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the need to reform the power sector and expand the supply of electricity to the millions who live in villages without much basic infrastructure. For we are told that long years ago, Singh himself had no access to electricity, and bent over his textbooks by the light of a candle."
— Basharat Peer on India without power, then and now: http://nyr.kr/MSfylO(Source: newyorker.com)
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In 2010, Michael Specter went to India to write about the impact of dangerously misleading tuberculosis tests (which he talks about in this audio slideshow). Now, India has become the first country to ban these tests, a measure that could save tens of thousands of lives: http://nyr.kr/N6g7CO
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Happy 100th birthday, Bollywood! View the Jonathan Torgovnik photographs
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Last week in The New Yorker, Jake Halpern wrote about the discovery of billions of dollars worth of gold underneath the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Trivandrum, India. We sent Chiara Goia to photograph: http://nyr.kr/IPdW8s
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