All posts by Sanhita

Days 6, 7 and 8 – Museums
August 9, 2011, 3 Comments

This City houses some of the largest and most eccentric museums in the world.

Day 5 – The Empire State
August 5, 2011, 2 Comments

American states all have nicknames. Some are descriptive (West Virginia is the “Mountain State”), some are unintenti ...

Day 2 and 3: Getting Around
July 25, 2011, 2 Comments

Getting around New York City is simple: you can take the subway, take a bus, hail a cab or just walk. Very helpfully, mo ...

Day 1/90: Moving Into Brooklyn
July 19, 2011, 1 Comment

Day 1 was moving-in day. Moving into New York is a bit of a night-mare. First, one has to find housing, which is easier ...

90 Days in New York
July 18, 2011, 3 Comments

What to do in New York if you are not-American, a struggling student, vegetarian and generally curious

2010, India and the Security Council – An Agenda for 2011
December 28, 2010, 3 Comments

After a hiatus of about two decades, India finally takes a 2-year seat on the U.N.S.C. starting January 2011. India’s ...

Gandhi and International Human Rights
October 1, 2010, 8 Comments

Even in the 1940s, when the world was obsessed with the emerging ‘rights-discourse’, Gandhi’s contribution is uniq ...

Conditional Cash Transfers in India
September 27, 2010, 13 Comments

In this blog post, I try to make sense of the scope and applicability of CCT programs in India. More simply put, I try t ...

Dabangg – A Review (Guest Post)
September 21, 2010, 5 Comments

Nothing in the film is by chance, and it has been put together very consciously and very carefully. So carefully in fact ...

Gearing up for U.P.R. 2012
September 2, 2010, 4 Comments

Many commentators would say that the Indian government’s reluctance to engage in a real and substantive exercise of se ...