She surfs sea swells
Surfing stories have long been about freedom and leaving the world behind on the quest for the perfect wave. That is not the story Brown Girl Surf tells. Founded in 2011 by Farhana Huq, Brown Girl Surf shares the exploits of ground breaking female surfers around the world and reveals what they Read More...
Chimneys for a healthier future for the children of India
The boys in this picture live in the center of Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the world’s biggest slums. More than a million people live in Dharavi and it’s an extremely unhealthy place to live because of the severe air pollution. Onno van Schayck, professor of preventative medicine at the University Read More...
India is polio-free
It has been three years since a case of polio was reported in India. That's the period of time the World Health Organization requires a country to go without anyone catching polio before declaring itself polio-free. It's a come-from-behind victory for the country, which was considered an Read More...
How laughter can keep you on your spiritual path
Carmel Wroth | August 2009 issue Photograph: Money Sharma/EPA/Corbis A few years ago, I traveled throughout India looking for spiritual inspiration. Naturally, I wasn’t the first person to have done this. At all the temples, ashrams and holy mountains, I found crowds of Westerners looking for Read More...
A new style of superpower
India is emerging as one of the powers of the 21st century. Yet Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra says it will progress on its own terms, reinventing the whole notion of modernity in the process. Pankaj Mishra | May 2006 issue In India late last year, a senior police officer appeared at a court hearing Read More...
Full bellies, hungry minds
In India, a group of monks feeds nearly a million kids a day, proving there is such a thing as a free lunch. Tijn Touber| June 2008 issue He’s in the Netherlands fundraising for new trucks and food processors, but in no time—and who could blame him?—finds himself addicted to the typically Read More...
Added values
The Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate, spends millions each year on education, renewable energy, health care and charity. Can the Tata brand of compassionate capitalism take on-and take over-the global economy? Jack Leenaars| May 2008 issue Chudamani Sardar carefully stirs the cow dung Read More...
Lessons in Love
At his City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, Jagdish Gandhi teaches kids how to change the world. Ingrid Eissele| March 2008 issue Sitting in the back seat of his car one evening, Jagdish Gandhi puts away his cell phone and places a handkerchief over his thin knee. It’s time for dinner. Read More...
Field of dreams
How the ecofashion boom is transforming the lives of cotton farmers in central India. Saritha Rai | December 2007 issue Through narrow village streets littered with cattle dung and hay, past a group of men wordlessly chewing tobacco under a shady banyan tree and oxen lazing in the tropical sun, lie Read More...
And then we started a movement
Jaya Arunachalam is leading a movement for women's independence in India. Ode spoke with her about why mircrocredit is not enough. Marco Visscher | March 2007 issue On the table between us is a copy of Ode. "Turning poverty into peace," reads the cover, showing a photograph of a beaming Muhammad Read More...