Category Archives: Country Update

New Delhi’s Heat and Street Life

Author Megha Bahree travels extensively through India reporting on the country’s transformation from a traditional agrarian economy to an industrial one. She is currently a freelance reporter, and was formerly on staff at the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. New Delhi: 6 am and it’s already crossed 90F, the sun’s golden light getting hotter by […]

Ukraine After Yanukovich

By Halyna Klymuk Chomiak, Maidan citizen journalist Now that Yanukovych has fled Ukraine, one might ask who is running the country.  The answer is simple the Ukrainian people are.  The people who ran an organized Maidan since November 2013. The people who barricaded themselves for protection, who bore no arms, and who asked for Yanukovych to please […]

Understanding Ukraine’s Maidan

By Halyna Klymuk Chomiak, Maidan citizen journalist Many people think that EuroMaidan began the day after people realized that Yanukovych was not serious about reaching an agreement with the EU. They became fearful of a regression and a union with Russia and Putin. They began to do what Ukrainian people do when there is confusion, danger, and […]

ENERGY BATTLES IN INDIA: BILLIONAIRES VERSUS BACKWATER

Author Megha Bahree travels extensively through India reporting on the country’s transformation from a traditional agrarian economy to an industrial one. She is currently a Staff Writer at Forbes magazine, and blogs at megha.me. India is the world’s seventh largest consumer of electricity and is set to overtake countries like Canada and Germany as its […]

Venezuela: a territory of fear and beauty

“When you leave your house in the morning, you do not know if you will return alive in the evening”.  Either in rich suburbs or in poverty-sticken areas, this is a sentence which expresses the fear of the citizens in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. In 2009 there were 795 kidnappings in Venezuela, a 48% […]