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About: South Asia Wired

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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 the prominent voices from South Asia, cross border discussions about anything from new media to cricket, and international stories with a South Asian focus. And do visit our blog.

 

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Our selected shows of South Asia Wired

Three women in Lachkera were accused of witchcraft in 2001

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...

Myint Myint Khin

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...

Aung San Suu Kyi opens the first uncensored film festival in Burma

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...

A patient gets treatment

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,...

Manika Jha

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...

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Homs: where is the UN?
The citizens of Homs in Syria are under attack and are asking the UN for...
In from Holland
On this week's show: winter weather takes hold of the country, we find out...

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