So Long, Photograph Well
by Semhal Tsegaye The familiar chatter greets us as we enter the classroom for one of the last times. It’s hard to believe that the Snappers (the students of the SNAP Photography Workshop) met only three weeks ago and are already fast friends, bonded by this unique experience. They greet us with the usual smiles...
Power? Pshaw. India gets blackout
By Tao Tao Holmes: Twelve-hour sleeper trains in India cost about five U.S. bucks. It’s great. For some extra dollars, you can upgrade to AC class, but frankly, I find the AC cabins akin to freezers, and falling asleep there feels like submitting to an experiment in human cryogenics, from which revival is uncertain. On...
Seven More Geneva Stories, Abridged
By Charlotte Parker Boarding the airplane home took me by surprise. Actually, Geneva took me by surprise; there was so much—gritty, swanky, quirky—to investigate. Below, a few of the stories I would have liked to write: 1. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently released a free iPhone/iPad app called “My...
“If You Are the One”: Dating Reality TV Shows in Harbin
By Rachel Brown The Chinese dating game show, 非诚勿扰 (in English, “If You Are the One,” although a literal translation would be “If you aren’t sincere, don’t bother me”) is probably best known for a contestant who professed that she “would rather cry in the back of a BMW than smile on the back of...
Are you Russian? Wearing shorts in Delhi
By Tao Tao Holmes: It was 8:30 pm on a snug July evening in Delhi, and my flatmate and I were walking back from Green Park market, a relatively upscale neighborhood of India’s capital city. By relatively upscale, I mean that I have yet to see a single goat, and meandering cows are few and...
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