UNL journalism and advertising students discovering India
August 5, 2011 2 Comments
Video by Poh Si Teng | Additional Video by Camila Orti
Poh Si Teng, a freelance videographer for the New York Times and a World Media Academy instructor, created a short video about our visit to Delhi and our work with WMA.
August 1, 2011 2 Comments
Video by Camila Orti
A street couple live under a tree in Nizamuddin, India, and can proudly say its children are going to school thanks to an NGO called Dilse.
Additional reporting and translating done by Saurabh Yadav, Subuhi Parvez, and Sumeet.
July 31, 2011 2 Comments
Manpreet Romana isn't employed currently but is well-known for photographing an explosion in Afganistan. "I had to stay still," Manpreet said, "because I didn’t know if I was shaking or the ground was shaking." | Submitted photo by Maral Deghati
Story by Ryan Bramhall
Manpreet Romana was at the right place at the right time.
On July 14, 2009, Romana was embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan photographing soldiers and the lives of Afghans. He’d been with the brigade for five days, and was walking alongside soldiers for four hours when he saw a convoy of trucks coming the other way. He told a fellow journalist to stop so he could get a shot of the soldiers walking while the convoy passed them.
When the soldiers walked 30 meters ahead, he heard a blast and saw smoke through his Nikon D3.
“I heard a loud explosion,” Romana said, “probably the loudest explosion I will ever hear.”
He was the first photojournalist to shoot an improvised explosive device (IED) in wartime.
July 30, 2011 1 Comment
Video by Matt Heng
The views of Delhi citizens about their thoughts on American influence in politics, movies and fashion.
July 29, 2011 1 Comment
Kiran Shaheen, 55, ran away from her orthodox home in Patna, Bihar, in 1973 to seek a life of her own. Today she works as a teacher, journalist and political activist. | Photo by Ujwala Viswanath
Story by Bethany Trueblood
On a summer night in 1973 in Patna, Bihar, a 15-year-old girl has a decision to make.
She has passed her school exams and awaits entrance into a university. But her orthodox Hindu parents from conservative Rajasthan won’t permit her to continue her education. If she stays at home, an arranged marriage will be her fate. Her duty will be to her home and she will never attend college.
This is not the life she wants.
At about 11:30 p.m. the house is quiet. The servant with the gate keys is asleep. The girl, who looks hardly older than a child, has made her decision: Her heart thumping rapidly against her ribcage, she cautiously draws the keys from the sleeping guard and slips out of the house without anything but the clothes she is wearing. She will never see her family again.
Today, at 55 years old, Kiran Shaheen remains a single woman and works as a journalist, teacher and activist. She completed her education at Magadh Women’s College, where she was admitted after spending an entire day outside of the minister of education’s office.
“I told him I escaped from my home and I want to continue my study,” she said. “I want to do something for my society and I want admission in the college and the hostel.”
The minister wrote letters for her, admitting her to the university and to the hostel.
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