Ratnamala Tekam, a widow with her two children in Mangi village, in the cotton producing belt of Vidarbha. Her husband killed himself in March 2009 amid mounting debts, hunger and crop losses.Jaideep Hardikar

Bomb drops on Indian countryside

India may be one of the world’s current economic ‘winners’ but inequality is its fastest-growing sector, reveals Jaideep Hardikar.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
Photo by Rich Anderson under a CC Licence.

The hole in America's middle

Mark Engler's regular column from the magazine

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NI 439 - Who's pushing politicians' buttons? - January, 2011
One country, two worlds: 20,000 poor Argentines and immigrants live in the Buenos Aires slum known as Villa 31.Enrique Marcarian / Reuters

Inequality costs the earth

Greater equality, both between and within nations, would be better for us all - as well as for the planet. Bob Hughes considers the facts.

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
Worlds apart: the plight of India’s poor is worsened by the caste system and income inequality.Mark Henley / PANOS

Mean machine

Danny Dorling explains how class divisions reinforce social inequality and lower the level of public debate.

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
Photo: Bazuki Muhammad / REUTERS

Into the vortex of identity

With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism, making the case for looking beneath the smokescreen of ‘culture clash’.

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009

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Up in arms March, 2011
Who's pushing politicians' buttons? January, 2011
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Multiculturalism May, 2009
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