Shabnam Ramaswamy runs an informal court of law in a small village in India. For the illiterate and the poor, India’s unwieldly, corrupt and slow justice system is inaccessible. So […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
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Pulitzer Prize author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his collection of novellas “Specimen Days.” It is considered part of a wave of post-9/11 fiction. Cunningham talks […]
When Dutch filmmaker Hans Fels first traveled to Haiti a quarter of a century ago, he heard about an opera that had never been staged, and he decided to produce […]