Pooja Bhatia appears in the following:
With Egg-Freezing So Expensive, Should Long-Term Boyfriends Chip In?
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Egg-freezing. Come on, single ladies; you know you want to. In fact, you wish you had already, like, 10 years ago. Admit it.
Despite your justified resentment of the way certain media outlets bait fertility fears for sales and clicks, despite the 2 a.m. Internet surfing that reveals ...
At September 11 Museum, Promises To The Future About The Past
Thursday, September 11, 2014
The Wall Street Journal offices on Liberty Street were evacuated after the first plane hit, though none of us knew then that a plane had hit. We joined a small crowd on the sidewalk and squinted up at the smoking building. I remember the second plane flying right over our ...
A Tale Of Two Cities: Mixing The Urban Poor Into A Rich Urban Life
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Skyscrapers and shanties, gleaming malls and rundown markets, palatial houses and the piss-poor guys who build them: Those are the divides in cities like Mumbai, Nairobi and Manila. Rich and poor do not much mingle.
But a movement is afoot to change that. It aims to integrate the poor into ...
In Haiti's Tent Cities, Rape A Worsening Problem
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Since Haiti's earthquake earlier this year, thousands of Haitians continue to live in tent cities, which tend to be small, crowded and offer little privacy. As a result, many women have reported being victims of sexual assault or rape. Rape has always been a problem in Haiti, a country where the act was only truly criminalized in 2005, but the breakdown of social structures since the earthquake has worsened the problem.
TAKEOUTS: Haiti Relief, Arizona's Snow Emergency, Your Responses
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
- HAITI TAKEOUT: Freelance reporter for the Wall Street Jounal Pooja Bhatia joins us from Port-au-Prince with an update on Haitians lining up at money transfer offices to collect cash from relatives abroad.
- ARIZONA TAKEOUT: Last week's big snow storm in Northern Arizona created brutal conditions on Navajo and Hopi land. Gillian Ferris Kohl, reporter and Morning Edition host at KNAU, Arizona Public Radio, gives us an update.
- YOUR STATE OF THE UNION: Listeners respond to our request for their own State of the Union address.
The Navajo nation is a 27,000 square mile nation. It's hard to assess exactly how many people are stranded. It's in the hundreds if not thousands, and of course the problem now is melting snow turning to mud on dirt roads in a very, very rural area. —Gillian Ferris Kohl
How Best to Help Haiti's Orphaned Children
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The number of orphans in Haiti is expected to double after last week's earthquake; there's rising debate over the best way to help these children.
Scrambling to Help the Victims in Haiti
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
In the aftermath of the earthquake's devastation, residents in Port-Au-Prince had to scramble to help their injured neighbors. Without the help of international aid, they had to make do with basic first aid tools, like alcohol and gauze.