I have an article in this month’s issue of Elle’s Indian edition titled “A Bitter Pill.”

By the end of the day today, more than 100 million women around the world will have taken a birth control pill. It’s completely possible that you know not one of them. While the pill has brought sexual freedom and choices to the Wet, its acceptance in India has been dismal. The birth control pill is the preferred form of contraeption in the West, but in India, only about three per cent of women use it, according to the National Family Health Survey.

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Check it out if you get a chance.

I have a story on GlobalPost about the Church of Scientology and its operations in India.

Ironically, however, in a country overcrowded with religions and beliefs, Scientology has taken a different approach: it’s being taught as a business tool. With 19 “technologies,” each focusing on a different area of life, Scientology courses give advice on business, disaster management, communication, the art of selling, even marriage and family. Scientologists, while not offering a direct explanation of what exactly these technologies entail, claim to have the best how-to manuals you’ll ever need.

Branches are called “Churches of Scientology” in the West, but in India the words church and mission are curiously missing.

You can read the full story here.

This piece for the Christian Science Monitor.

Bad loan? India firm sends in the women.