Month: September 2010

Enabling a billion readers in India: ekkitab.com

Only a few million of India’s billion-strong populace can read. Ekkitab.com–“ek kitab” means “one book” in Hindi–is a new online bookstore with the grand ambition of “enabling a billion readers,” by, among other things, providing easy online access to cheap books.

“How do we feel about belonging to that privileged group of a few million who can read?,” they ask on their site. “How would things change if more people could read?”

How indeed?

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by their team, and they feature a short Q&A with me on their site, at  http://www.ekkitab.com/index.php/meet-sonia-shah/

Now online: Bloggingheads.tv video dialog with Randi Hutter Epstein

Last week, I spoke with medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein, about malaria, politics, Jeff Sachs, and the future of mosquitoes, in a video interview arranged by Bloggingheads.tv. Randi, whose new book Get Me Out is on the history of childbirth, did her medical school thesis on malaria history, and also wrote a nice review of The Fever. It was great fun talking to her–kind of weird to record it but I think the end result actually works. Here’s the link on this website, and also on Bloggingheads.tv

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