I wandered through the Port-au-Prince cemetery today with a Haitian colleague looking for his family crypt. His heart was full of trepidation. What would he find? Had someone tossed his ancestor’s bodies and stuffed fresh ones in there instead. That’s what has happened to so many crypts. We stepped over bones and skulls spread through …
My heart breaks. Every time I head out of the Plaza Hotel in a CNN car, my heart breaks. In the massive tent cities, in the villages, on the big island in the deep blue Caribbean. My heart breaks. A woman grasped my arm today and would not let go. She held her sick child …
Members of the younger generation in my family think differently than did my grandparents. Many of the centuries-old traditions and rituals are falling away as young men and women adopt a more progressive — and often more gender equitable — outlook toward life. But one thing that remains constant are the intricate ways of a …
A year ago, I was making my way to Mexico City, dreaming of the serene canals of Xochimilco and the burst of a hot tamale in my mouth. By my heart was heavy. In my homeland, Mumbai was under siege, attacked by gunmen in hotels, the main train station, a popular restaurant and a Jewish …
President Barack Obama hosts his first state visit today. The guest? Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Makes me proud. Singh, India’s first Sikh leader, is an a Cambridge- and Oxford-educated economist who was first sworn in as prime minister in May 2004 and again this past May when the Congress party won national elections. During …
Tallah Tank turns 100 today. What is Tallah Tank, you might ask. It’s allegedly the world’s largest water tank of its kind, holding a whopping nine million gallons of water to supply a city burgeoning with over 15 million people. If Tallah were to store aviation fuel in its belly, writes The Telegraph newspaper, it …
We take so many things for granted here in the United States, among them a little piece of paper documenting births. But millions of people across the world do not have birth certificates. Their existence is not documented. They are often unable to access benefits, including life-saving medicines. In many places, a person lacking a …
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