TED Talks
Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase
How prevalent is solar power, really? According to researcher Jenny Chase, it's already displacing fossil fuels in key energy markets around the world. She explains the rise of affordable solar power and dives into how her team tracked...
TED Talks
TED: 3 stories of Pakistani resilience, told in film | Jawad Sharif
TED Fellow Jawad Sharif was born with a rebellious streak -- and he's used it in his documentary films to amplify the unheard voices of Pakistan. Sharing three stories of everyday heroes -- a high-altitude mountaineer, a folk musician of...
TED Talks
TED: A new social contract for global climate justice | Huma Yusuf
Pakistan contributes less than one percent to the global greenhouse gas emissions perpetrating climate change, yet one-third of the country was recently inundated with "biblical" floods that killed hundreds and displaced millions. If...
PBS
Mismanagement complicates Pakistan’s long recovery from deadly floods
Four months after a third of the country was underwater, Pakistan is still struggling to recover. The disaster affected more than 30 million people and is seen as a warning for other climate-vulnerable countries. As Fred de Sam Lazaro...
PBS
Pakistanis build climate-resilient homes in aftermath of devastating floods
Pakistan is struggling to recover from last year’s cataclysmic flooding that killed more than 1,700. It was the latest in a string of weather-related disasters the country has faced over the past two decades, prompting calls to make...
PBS
Pakistan struggles to recover from historic flooding as waters refuse to recede
Months after historic flooding that killed more than 1,700 people, Pakistan is still struggling to recover. The UN is warning it might suspend its food support program for flood victims because it is running out of money. Fred de Sam...
TED Talks
Nighat Dad: How Pakistani women are taking the internet back
TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the story of how she set up Pakistan's first cyber harassment helpline, offering...
TED Talks
TED: Inside a school for suicide bombers | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking...
TED Talks
Asher Hasan: My message of peace from Pakistan
One of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary Pakistanis that drive home a profound message for citizens of all nations: look beyond...
TED Talks
TED: My desperate journey with a human smuggler | Barat Ali Batoor
Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in Afghanistan -- until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the Hazara, moving home to Pakistan proved dangerous too. And...
Crash Course
Decolonization: Crash Course European History
After World War II, Europe was changing radically, and its place in the world was changing as well. European powers had colonized around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries, and in the 20th century, it all came crashing down. Of...
TED Talks
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: How film transforms the way we see the world
Film has the power to change the way we think about ourselves and our culture. Documentarian and TED Fellow Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy uses it to fight violence against women, turning her camera on the tradition of honor killings in Pakistan....
TED Talks
Shad Begum: How women in Pakistan are creating political change
Activist Shad Begum has spent her life empowering women to live up to their full potential. In a personal talk, she shares her determined struggle to improve the lives of women in her deeply religious and conservative community in...
TED Talks
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
TED-Ed
Why was India split into two countries? | Haimanti Roy
In 1947, the British viceroy announced that after 200 years of British rule, India would gain independence and be partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. What followed was one of the largest and bloodiest forced migrations in...
Curated Video
India Geography
New ReviewIndia is officially called the Republic of India and is also known as Hindustan or Bharat. It’s the seventh-largest country in the world. India is often referred to as a peninsula, as it’s mostly surrounded by water bodies on three...
Curated Video
Explore India
New ReviewOne of the most diverse nations, India is best understood as a land of contrasts. From its vast deserts to its snowy mountain peaks, India is home to many different ethnicities and cultural traditions that can be traced back more than...
Curated Video
India Local Culture
New ReviewIndia’s dramatic changes over the past decade and a half have created opportunities and growth never before imagined by the country’s billion plus people. These changes have brought new ideas, attitudes, values, and hope into the...
Curated Video
India History
New ReviewThe first organized state in India came into being around 3000 BCE along the Indus River Valley in what is now Pakistan. Over the centuries, kingdoms rose, flourished, and fell, eventually leading to British colonization and subsequently...
Curated Video
Understanding Modern India
New ReviewIndia is a land of stark contrasts—from its deserts to its snowy mountains, it’s home to many different ethnicities and cultural traditions that can be traced back thousands of years. Boasting a rich and complicated cultural heritage,...
The Daily Conversation
15 Years of Terror
New ReviewAn animated video infographic showing every terrorist attack with more than 20 deaths between 1/12/2000 and 11/13/2015.
Professor Dave Explains
Ancient India Part 1: The Indus Valley Civilization (3500 – 2000 BCE)
So far we've been focused predominately on Mesopotamia and the Near East. But the Indian subcontinent is also home to one of the earliest civilizations in human history, the Indus Valley civilization. When did this begin? Where were...
Curated Video
Postcards from Uzbekistan: treasure trove of banned art
This week in Postcards from Uzbekistan, a treasure trove of forbidden artwork in the country’s northwest. Key facts about Uzbekistan: It’s in Central Asia, with neighbours including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan With...