Hanna Ingber Win

Families Stretch Across India-Pakistan Divide

Hanna Ingber Win — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:02:16 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Every time Tasleem, who lives in Mumbai, makes a call on her mobile to her mother in Karachi she receives a text message from her service provider urging her to be on alert. She should “exercise caution” when calling someone in Pakistan, the message tells her, as the information she shares “can [...]

India Abroad Profile

Hanna Ingber Win — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:29:16 +0000

India Abroad profiled me and other foreign correspondents based in Mumbai in their July 9, 2010 edition. Here it is.

Maternal Mortality in India: Photo Montage

Hanna Ingber Win — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:07:28 +0000

Hanna Ingber Win explains her Pulitzer Center reporting project in this photo montage: Learn more about this reporting project.

India’s Poor Cry Foul Over Fuel Prices

Hanna Ingber Win — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:31:00 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Kids played cricket on empty streets and motorbikes easily zoomed through normally congested intersections in Mumbai as opposition parties pulled off a nationwide strike Monday to protest a fuel price hike. The strike, called by the main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the leftist bloc, closed businesses [...]

Divorce in India Just Got Easier — For Some

Hanna Ingber Win — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:23:08 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Irrespective of class or caste, a fundamental aspect of Indian society remains: marriage is a must. Children are seen as giving women value, and uniting with a husband in order to produce those children is still often seen as the only option, say gender specialists. And yet, as more women [...]

For a Thirsty India, Rains a Mixed Blessing

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:16:16 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Just a month back Mumbai had such a bad water shortage that some families went four or five days without a drop in their faucet. People broke open pipes to steal water. The local press covered fights between neighbors over access to a tap and water-related stress sending [...]

Life Beyond Birth, India (Audio, Photos)

Hanna Ingber Win — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:00:19 +0000

“If Sulekha Lohar had only had access to an ambulance instead of that handcart. If the clinic just had a doctor, instead of just empty shelves. If the hospital only had a bloodbank, as we hear from American journalist Hanna Ingber Win, Sulekha’s children might still have their mother.” Listen to Hanna’s dispatch from a [...]

The Bhojpuri Boom (Video)

Hanna Ingber Win — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:18:35 +0000

MUMBAI, India – Twenty-year-old Darbanga Lalit Yadav left his village in the north Indian state Bihar two years ago and moved to Mumbai in search of a job. He works as a cook in a family’s home and earns 4,000 rupees ($87) a month. When he gets a day off about once [...]

Looking for Hope in Child Brides

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:35:50 +0000

I had written about child marriage before. When I went to Ethiopia, I visited a program for girls who had fled early marriage in their villages and ended up in the capital Addis Ababa. I met a classroom full of such young girls. With their schoolbooks in hand, they looked like kids, [...]

India: Streetwise Kama Sutra?

Hanna Ingber Win — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:05:09 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Every weekday morning 23-year-old Muskaan gets ready for work in an apartment she shares with her mother in Chembur, a suburb in Mumbai. Muskaan’s mom thinks her daughter will catch a bus to her office in Powai. Instead, she meets her boyfriend, 24-year-old Dilip, and he gives her a [...]