Survivors, not victims

Survivors, not victims

Report on India by Shoaib Mir and Parthu Venkatesh.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
A farmer stands by signs, with photos of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others pasted onto the bodies of a variety of creatures, during protests in January 2021.Photo: Im_Rohitbhakar/Shutterstock

The farmers rise

The mass protests of 2020-21 in India showed the world what solidarity in action can look like.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023

Farmers like Nurul Haq have seen their crops devastated by Assam’s floods.Photo: Gurvinder Singh

Washed out

Report from India by Gurvinder Singh.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Photo: Dipayan Bose

Southern Exposure: Dipayan Bose

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Cartoon History: Amritsar massacre

Cartoon History: Amritsar massacre

ILYA recounts how hundreds of unarmed civilians were slaughtered by troops under British command in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Photo: Esther Ruth Mbabazi

Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Prasanta Biswas

Southern Exposure: Prasanta Biswas

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
View from India

View from India

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Image is everything: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the campaign trail prior to the West Bengal elections, March 2021, which his party lost. The huge rallies by all parties were criticized for their irresponsibility during India’s coronavirus crisis.
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The vise tightens

The image-obsessed Indian government is intent on shutting down dissent. Rishika Pardikar examines the ploys in use.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
View from India

View from India

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the colossal failure of governance that has led to needless deaths on a massive scale.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
View from India

View from India

Women experiencing violence from their partners need more than a helpline, says Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Information soldier

Information soldier

India’s RTI – Right to Information – and tea-stall culture.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
View from India

View from India

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable ecosystem to the brink.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
No farmers, no food: tractors rally on the outskirts of New Delhi in January.Photo: Annan Abidi/Reuters/Alamy

Impossible to ignore

Indian farmers protest produce legislation.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Hadiya, in the red dress, appears at the Supreme Court in New Delhi to defend her marriage to her Muslim husband Shafin in one of India’s alleged ‘love jihad’ cases.Photo: Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times Via Getty

Love and other conspiracies

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Hatebook

Hatebook

Facebook contravening its own hate-speech policies.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
The Interview: Sarojini Nadimpally

The Interview: Sarojini Nadimpally

Indian public-health researcher and scientist Sarojini Nadimpally speaks to Amy Hall about the inequalities exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Long live Shaheen Bagh

Long live Shaheen Bagh

Report from India by Husna Rizvi.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Room with a view: Residents of Mahul’s resettlement colony are forced to live in a polluted industrial area.Photo: Ishan Tankha

Unfit for habitation

India’s air pollution crisis affects millions, and not just in Delhi. Aruna Chandrasekhar meets people forced to live, and resist, at Mumbai’s toxic perimeter.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
View from India

View from India

Adding pain to the pandemic. Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Railways September, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The biodiversity emergency January, 2020
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