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Articles about India, ordered by date. 
Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower
Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.
The end of the line
Indian railway stations are a magnet for impoverished children looking for a better future. What usually awaits them is abuse and exploitation. Terina Keene on an initiative helping them find a way out.
A prisoner in the house
For hundreds of South Asian women each year, an arranged marriage in Britain leads not to love but to slavery. Samira Shackle reports.
In our own words
Citizen journalists Sheku Feika and Anoop Kumar tell the remarkable tales of three disabled young people from Sierra Leone and India.
Keeping Prerna
Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.
Only the best... it has to be a boy
Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.
Worth their salt
Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India's salt-workers out of the poverty trap.
Southern exposure
Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.
Coming back from the brink?
India’s vultures nearly went extinct. Graeme Green on the efforts to save them.
Where are they now? Mari Marcel Thekaekara
The Indian activist who's been writing for New Internationalist for almost 25 years.
India's elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement
A revealing set of US studies has got Urvashi Butalia thinking about how the rich behave in Dehli.
Garden party with the forest people
Mari Marcel Thekaekara learns a lot about her own back yard when her adivasi friends come to visit.
Tom Kocherry: fisher for justice
The 71-year-old legend of social movement politics in India shows no signs of slowing down, as Richard Swift discovers.
Should India still receive foreign aid?
NGO director Jamal Kidwai and activist and writer Praful Bidwai go head-to-head - read their arguments and join the debate.
Festival of Respect
Claire Colley visits Rajasthan’s International Folk Festival.
Chicken à la injection
Wild stories fly around about chicken farming but the reality remains less than wholesome, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
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