India 
Is Microfinance Helping or Hurting?(5)
Microfinance institutions have become fixtures in small villages and poor towns. They provide women with both money and a sense of autonomy and purpose. A year ago I decided to venture to India and get involved in this new wave of socially responsible banking. I began to realize that social responsibility was not the objective of these lenders but simply a veil to cover the true goal: money, money and more money.
Nobel Laureate Barack Obama?
I woke up this morning to the news that President Barack Obama has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Let me say this again: a Nobel Peace Prize. What did he do, again? Did I miss something while I was burying my head in the books stacked in Lehman library? Did I skim through some [...]
From Pretoria to New Delhi: Behind the Jewelry of Pieter Erasmus
St. Erasmus’s New Delhi workshop sits on a narrow road with missing sections of blacktop. SIPA alumnus Yoyce Jones interviews South African-born jewelry designer Pieter Erasmus about apartheid, arts and crafts, and how it felt to see Michelle Obama wearing one of his creations.
Holding Police Accountable: Cambridge vs. New Delhi
In Delhi, the chances of an individual managing to hold police accountable for abuse are as slim as finding a slice of ice on the city’s sweltering sidewalks at noon. Over my eight months in New Delhi, I have witnessed police constables bribe or pertly slap offenders at best and, at worst, jam batons into rib cages.
