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South Asia Wired
Hosted by award-winning RNW producer Dheera Sujan and Johan van Slooten, South Asia Wired features stories from the region, the Diaspora, and events here in Europe of interest to people from South Asia. Hear...
Radio Show: Chhattisgarh's 'witches': maimed for life
“When I think of that day, it still sends kind of shivers down my spine,” Teerath says. Then her tears silence her for a long moment. She bows her head and wipes her face with the end of her grimy sari. It all happene...
Radio Show: Reason for hope
In this week’s programme we hear from the indominitable Dr Myint Myint Khin from Burma. A doctor and professor of medicine for most of her career, Dr Khin has never shirked from expressing her often dissident views, despite t...
Radio Show: Burma's media scene is changing fast
A few years ago, he would have been imprisoned simply for talking to someone from the foreign media, but today, he’s happy not just to talk, but to be photographed and to be named. Tiha Saw talks about the reforms in Burma...
Radio Show: AIDS in India's northeast: still a hidden disaster
India’s north east, home to some 60 million people, is amongst the poorest, least developed and most violent parts of the country. For decades, the region has been ridden with fractured conflicts and in recent years,...
Radio Show: A journalist against the odds
On this week's South Asia Wired, 23-year old Nepalese Manika Jha explains why she chose to become a journalist in one of the country's most conservative regions, despite threats and violence from, as she puts it, "men who...
Radio Show: The guru who wasn't
On this week's South Asia Wired, you can listen to the remarkable story of Sri Kumaré, an Indian guru who managed to attract many followers during a recent visit to the US state of Arizona. The trip was filmed by an...
Radio Show: 2011: A year in review
On the last edition of South Asia Wired in 2011, we look back on a few stories that have made the headlines in the South Asian region in the past twelve months:...
Radio Show: Changing the perception of poverty
On this week's South Asia Wired, we look at how people can change the perception of poverty. We all know that poverty is there and that it's hard to eradicate, but on various small levels, people are working hard to make a d...
Radio Show: The conflict widows of Manipur
Based on a report by Aletta Andre It’s perhaps the only market in the world where all the vendors are women. Ima Keithal in Manipur’s capital of Imphal is a tourists' paradise where women, sell e...
Radio Show: Birangonas: The brave women of Bangladesh
This year Bangladesh celebrated 40 years of independence. In 1971 West Pakistan, as it was called then, fought a bloody 9-month long war for separation from East Pakistan. Independence came at a high cost.
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