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The women dividend, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

At India’s largest Hindu festival, transgender spiritual leaders step into the spotlight for the first time, but Shivalika Puri reveals that their journey for equality is far from over.

Locals reclaim Baguran Jalpai beach from tourists, restoring its vibrant ecology and securing a biodiversity heritage site designation, writes Ritwika Mitra.

Israel and India have gone from covert traders to public allies, and arms are part of the special relationship. Mohammad Asif Khan outlines the nexus of power and what people are doing to try and disrupt it.

India’s new surrogacy regime discriminates on the basis of gender and marital status, reports Manu Moudgil.

India’s newly elected prime minister is already making waves.

Report on violence in India by Nikita Jain.

India’s rightwing have successfully incorporated the promotion of alternative medicine into their nationalist politics, but at what cost, asks Yusra Khan.

India's job crisis drives workers to Israeli construction sites amid controversial labor agreements, writes Jyoti Thakur.

As anti-Muslim hatred in India is stoked by nationalist politics, Kamran Yousuf and Durdana Bhat report on the economic campaign which has led to the devastation of lives and livelihoods.

Indian author Amitav Ghosh talks to Graeme Green about colonialism and the current opioid crisis.

Nomads uprooted in Ladakh, India. By Durdana Bhat and Kamran Yousuf.

Beyond outrage, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

India's Indigenous Shompen tribe at risk, writes Callum Russell.

Tarushi Aswani on how the Indian government is using the language of decolonization to promote its own form of rightwing nationalism.

The Indian physicist and veteran food sovereignty activist speaks to Amy Hall about a lifetime of keeping smiling while fighting the lies of the ‘poison cartel’.

Coal in a hole. Words Danny Chivers.

From rank and file unionist heroes to industrialist lone wolves, Bollywood storytellers and ‘content creators’ have shifted to write out India’s collective spirit. Ishika Saxena questions what this means for how the country’s citizens can be brought together.

Asma Hafiz reports on surveillance in India.

In India, a Hindu supremacist government is intent on erasing the country’s Islamic history. Tarushi Aswani reports.