Wonderwomen
On a bright December afternoon in Kolkata, I watched a handful of young women throw their arms in the air, swirl the scarves of their salwar kameez and leap from one…
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March 8, 2015
Missing plane tragedy, one year later
I have been corresponding with K.S. Narendran for almost a year now. His wife, Chandrika Sharma, was one of the passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it vanished from…
March 1, 2015
They own nothing. ZERO.
A few weeks ago, when President Barack Obama visited India, I wrote a piece for CNN about how my homeland was poised to become a global power in the…
February 16, 2015
No longer one
India now has a 29th state. Telangana. It was six decades in the making, the fruit of a strong separatist movement that argued neglect by successive governments and finally succeeded…
June 2, 2014
India's day of reckoning
By Friday afternoon, everything should become clear. Who did more than 500 million voters choose to lead India? India's day of reckoning is here. Election results will be announced soon.…
May 15, 2014
Looking like change in India
Today was the last day of polling in India's mammoth parliamentary elections. Five weeks of voting; Nine polling days; 814 million eligible voters; 543 Lok Sabha (lower House) seats. From…
May 12, 2014
Hotel Death
My story on a home for the dying in Varanasi, India, came out on CNN.com today. I spent a week reporting in the fabled holy city and was fascinated by its…
April 25, 2014
Death: I've had 13 years to think
I've been immersed in writing about death after spending a week in Varanasi at a home where ailing, elderly Hindus go to end their lives. They want to die there because…
March 25, 2014
With Malice Toward One and All. A legendary writer is silenced
When I first started out in my career as a reporter, most of the journalists I admired were from America or Europe. There were very few English-language journalists in my…
March 20, 2014