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

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

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

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

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

Indian farmers protest produce legislation.

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

Facebook contravening its own hate-speech policies.

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

Report from India by Husna Rizvi.

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.

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.

The invisible green warriors by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Insecure people can be highly susceptible to false narratives purporting to explain their precarious situation​, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Report from Goa, India by Mahima Jain.

India’s billion-dollar joke. Who’s laughing?

India’s rapidly expanding cities attract young dreamers like magnets. Snigdha Poonam observes how the horizon of promise keeps receding in Ranchi.

India’s record on children is puzzling for a country that is the world’s largest importer of arms and has a billion-dollar space programme. Nilanjana Bhowmick writes.

Nilanjana Bhowmick weighs up Modi's chances in the coming elections in India.

Coalminers in treacherous ‘rat-hole’ mines work without safety equipment or rescue protocols in northeast India.