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Nash Colundalur

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Nash Colundalur is a writer, architect and journalist. He was the winner of the 2009 Guardian International Development Journalism Award for reporting on the drought in northern Kenya

January 2011

  • A young devadasi

    'Devadasis are a cursed community'

    Southern India's devadasi system, which 'dedicates' girls to a life of sex work in the name of religion, continues despite being made illegal in 1988

October 2010

  • double quotation markKitchen hands need a working wage

    Nash Colundalur
    Nash Colundalur: Those who work in Bangladeshi restaurants are often unaware of their rights – and too easy for some managers to exploit

July 2010

  • Train crash near Sardiha, West Bengal state

    double quotation markBreak up Indian Railways to boost safety

    Nash Colundalur
    Nash Colundalur: Widespread corruption and alleged Maoist sabotage are costing lives. It's time the Indian government took radical action

June 2010

  • Kenyan pastoralists suffer from drought

    First person
    Kenya: the Turkana people's quest for water

    Nash Colander finds that the nomadic Turkana tribe is desperate for water

May 2010

  • double quotation markChávez's aversion to criticism

    Nash Colundalur

    Nash Colundalur: Venezuela's president is increasingly intolerant of his critics, and is closing media outlets that reflect views different from his own

April 2010

  • liberty central
    double quotation markSri Lanka must listen to its people

    Nash Colundalur
    Nash Colundalur: After a bloody civil war that followed an oppressive history of the Tamils, the government would do well to heed the diaspora
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