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Joe Sacco, the well-known American cartoonist and journalist, uses his “comic journalism” lens on a rural district of Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest and one of its poorest states. Caravan magazine publishes a long piece by him in its latest issue, which also includes a long profile of Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketer turned politician. Mr. Sacco and an Indian journalist who assisted him, Piyush Srivastava, travel to the district Kushinagar near the border between Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to meet with poor and lower caste families.?
In its special end of the year issue, The Economist looks at what the East India Company may tell us about today’s state-owned or state-backed firms from countries like China, Brazil and Mexico. While most of today’s politically connected companies do not have standing armies as East India did, the piece argues there are many similarities between the two, chiefly that they “serve two masters, keeping one eye on their share price and the other on their political patrons.”
Outlook magazine devotes its first issue of 2012 to the cuisines of India. The lead essay by Pushpesh Pant, who wrote “India Cook Book” and “Gourmet Journeys in India,” celebrates the fact that regional foods of the country have not been completely homogenized. The issue covers lots of ground from Kerala fish curries to the similarities and differences between food from Bengal and Orissa.
The New Yorker magazine has a flattering profile of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the founder of India’s leading biotech firm Biocon. The piece asks the question “Can one self-made woman reform health care for India, and the world?” It cites her company’s work on diseases that are most prevalent in developing countries like India, and also her philanthropic work to bring health care to the poor. (Subscription required)
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