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  • Why Some Barriers Remain, Even When We Do Our Best 

    Priya was heading towards a conference room at the end of a long, narrow corridor in a corporate office for a meeting on a weekday morning. She was holding her laptop and headphones to her chest with her left hand, and clearing the path in front of her with a white cane in her right.…

  • The Corner Seat

    On a quiet afternoon, under the shade of a large tree in the school playground, 11-year-old Vishal sat on a raised cement platform, his usual spot during the P.T. period. From there, he could hear the sound of sneakers on the ground, the laughter of his classmates, and the sharp calls of the P.T. teacher.…

  • The Gran Sabana and the Story of the Pemon

    In the southeast of Venezuela lies the Gran Sabana plateau, a vast land of sweeping savanna grasslands (from which it takes its name), dotted with rivers, forests and waterfalls, and overseen by dramatically rising table-top mountains called tepuis.  This land is home to the Pemon, an indigenous community whose livelihoods depend on tourism around the…