Overcoming My Fear of Cold Water and Elephant Snot
I sat on the back of Laxmi – a two and a half ton Asiatic […]
The Price of Human Rights Work
When you work in human rights, you see a lot of sad faces. A ten-year-old […]
Mourning the Loss of a Human Rights Institution
Brian and I stayed at the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims for ten days. […]
7 Reasons Why I’m Tamil
I was born in West Virginia and grew up in the Ohio Valley. Not […]
The Most Epic Rickshaw Ride in the History of Humankind
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. In some cases, however, […]
What good are human rights?
During my first year of law school, I took a class called Public International Law […]
Adventures in Madurai
AN UPDATE FROM BRIAN AND TED: It’s 10:00pm on September 9th, our first night in […]
A new beginning
I have no idea what time it is. My watch says it’s 3:45 am, but […]
Joy Amidst the Madness
It’s 5pm, one hour from the end of working hours at my NGO. Winter break […]
New Beginnings in a Human Rights Community in Tamil Nadu
When we were told repeatedly during orientation to “expect the unexpected,” I kept wondering what […]