India

Avinash Rajagopal|Reviews

The Nano Effect on Urban India

Review of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibition of the Tata Nano, 2010.

Jessica Helfand|Report

Better Living Through Artistry

SEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.

Meena Kadri|Interviews

Finding Innovation in Every Corner

Interview with management expert Anil Gupta, who seeks to reduce poverty by finding, broadcasting and nurturing examples of innovation among India's poor.

David Stairs|Essays

Journeying through the Sacred Profane

David Stairs chronicles his trip through India.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Chulha Stove

Report on the Chulha stove designed by Philips to reduce indoor air pollution in developing countries.

Michael Scharf|Essays

Rainfall Is Likely to Occur

The bourgeois quarters have their own hybrid neo-Tibeto-Hokkaido-Kashmiri-Brit architecture — tin-roof Tudors with peaks — yet "paddy" (i.e., rice) is still grown within the city limits, if in just a few spots.

Julia Galef|Projects

Question Box

The Question Box project puts the developing-world poor just a phone call away from an internet search.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Ripple Effect

IDEO launched Ripple Effect in India to help communities with the arduous process of transporting water.

John Thackara|Essays

We Are All Emerging Economies Now

I recently received an invitation to discuss design and development with a wonderful group of design peers in a beautiful location. But I have decided to decline the invitation. Why?