179 stories from 2015–2026 for 11 publications, many under the byline Ankita Mukhopadhyay. Every headline links to the original.
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Interview with Grammy-nominated composer Dhruv Goel, recorded at Cinequest in San Jose, about his musical upbringing, Berklee training and score for the French film Her Song.
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Essay arguing that recent Indian films distort historical facts and that history is increasingly treated as a matter of political interpretation.
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First-person essay about being assaulted on a San Francisco street after moving to the city, and her experience filing a police complaint.
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Afghan refugees in Delhi's Bhogal market wait for resettlement that may never come; a reporter's account of making Far from Home.
A thread connects the author's grandmother, born in Bangladesh a century ago, to Samira Faizi of a Delhi refugee colony.
Award: Professional Excellence Award, Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (2023)
Open Forum piece on the California civil rights agency's lawsuit alleging racial discrimination at Tesla's Fremont plant, based on hundreds of worker complaints dating to 2012.
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Illinois took in 500 Afghan refugees after the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Their work experience and education count for little in a new country, and their immigration status remains uncertain.
Reports from a rural hospital in West Bengal on how nurses filled gaps left by doctor shortages during the COVID-19 surge.
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Reports from a Mumbai-area crematorium on the hazardous conditions faced by workers cremating COVID-19 victims.
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Reports on JoeyCo, an agency that places college students in seniors' homes as live-in companions, through a San Rafael graduate who lives with and helps his landlady.
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Report from a July 8 media briefing at which PG&E's meteorology chief described tree trimming, powerline safety work and the conditions that trigger power shutoffs during wildfire season.
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Explains the Wildfire Safety and Preparedness Program grant, with about $1 million available, as presented at an information session by PG&E, the California Fire Foundation and Monterey Fire Department.
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Review of Aneil Karia's Hamlet starring Riz Ahmed, which keeps Shakespeare's text but sets the tragedy in an elite South Asian British family in modern-day London.
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Report from a media tour of PG&E's Powerhouse, a fully electrified demonstration home testing bidirectional EV charging, smart panels, heat pumps and battery storage.
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Report from an American Community Media briefing where speakers debated whether school cellphone restrictions, now required in 33 states, help students or cut them off from support.
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Review of Eisha Marjara's film Calorie, shown at Cinequest 2026, about a Canadian Sikh family living with the trauma of the 1985 Air India 182 (Kanishka) bombing and Operation Blue Star.
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Interview with Grammy-nominated composer Dhruv Goel, recorded at Cinequest in San Jose, about his musical upbringing, Berklee training and score for the French film Her Song.
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Guide to South Asian films at Cinequest 2026, led by Kalki Koechlin's French-language debut in John M. Keller's Her Song, plus Calorie, Bayaan, Victoria and This Tempting Madness.
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Report from an American Community Media briefing on how government data tools and surveillance cameras are being used for immigration enforcement, including the ACLU's suit against San Jose.
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Profile of Desi Board Games, a venture started by two Bay Area couples after pandemic game nights to make board games rooted in South Asian culture.
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Report from an Ethnic Media Services briefing on how President Trump's executive order ending federal DEI programs could affect minority- and women-owned small businesses.
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First-person essay on making the documentary Far from Home about Afghan refugees in New Delhi, and why its subject Samira and others struggle to build a future in India.
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Explains the dispute over giving the Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award to T.M. Krishna, after the Madras High Court honoured Subbulakshmi's will and barred the award in her name.
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Analysis after Donald Trump's 2024 win arguing that men across races voted heavily for him, reflecting frustrations the Democratic Party did not address and a wider gender rift.
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Pre-election essay asking how Donald Trump regained such a hold on American voters after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, as he sought the presidency a third time.
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Video conversation in which FO° assistant editor Elizabeth Tate asks Ankita about the rape and murder of a doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata, the protests and the political fallout.
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Essay arguing that recent Indian films distort historical facts and that history is increasingly treated as a matter of political interpretation.
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Q&A with Indian politician and lawyer V. Shruti Devi about her book Spirit of the Constitution, which recounts her 1998 environmental law fellowship at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
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Review of V. Shruti Devi's book Spirit of the Constitution, which chronicles her journey to the United States in the late 1990s and her reflections on law and global issues.
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Commentary ahead of the January 2024 consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, describing the temple's construction and questioning what the event means for secularism in India.
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First-person essay about being assaulted on a San Francisco street after moving to the city, and her experience filing a police complaint.
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Afghan refugees in Delhi's Bhogal market wait for resettlement that may never come; a reporter's account of making Far from Home.
First-person account of crossing the visa-free Kartarpur corridor from India to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, where Guru Nanak spent his last 18 years.
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A thread connects the author's grandmother, born in Bangladesh a century ago, to Samira Faizi of a Delhi refugee colony.
Award: Professional Excellence Award, Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (2023)
South Asians in the diaspora explain their mixed feelings about King Charles III's coronation and the British monarchy's colonial legacy.
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Analysis of City of Chicago and Illinois EPA complaint data from 2018 to 2021 showing that many odor complaints about the MAT Asphalt plant were not upheld on follow-up.
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Open Forum piece on the California civil rights agency's lawsuit alleging racial discrimination at Tesla's Fremont plant, based on hundreds of worker complaints dating to 2012.
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Profile of Katie Boucher, children's librarian at the Chicago Public Library's McKinley Park branch since 2015, and the programs she runs for local young people.
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Reports 2021 emissions test results released by the MAT Asphalt plant, which showed hazardous air pollutant levels far below federal limits.
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Illinois took in 500 Afghan refugees after the Taliban takeover in August 2021. Their work experience and education count for little in a new country, and their immigration status remains uncertain.
A data project mapping broadband access in Chicago, told through Grace Li, a McKinley Park mother who kept her children in online school through the Chicago Connected program.
Original work by 30 Chicago artists across three floors of lofts in the historic Central Manufacturing District building.
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Covers the first Day of the Dead vendor market at the McKinley Park field house, where more than two dozen small businesses sold their goods.
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Chicago's Midnight Circus returned to McKinley Park, part of a season that drew more than 25,000 people across the city's parks.
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Commentary responding to a Washington Post humour column by Gene Weingarten that dismissed Indian food, arguing that culinary ignorance feeds racism.
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What's so special about Jefee's pizza? Visitors to the Moose Family Center said it was the best they had ever had.
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Reports on a free summer lacrosse clinic for more than 40 children in McKinley Park, aimed at introducing city kids to a sport more common in white suburbs.
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Profile of Southwest Side muralist Robert Valadez on balancing art for social change with making a living, and his move from a McKinley Park studio.
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Reports how the Coalition for a Better Chinese-American Community used the Chicago Connected program to get subsidised home internet to families such as the Lis during the pandemic.
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Covers the William McKinley American Legion Post 231's annual Country Western Hoedown Picnic for veterans and neighbours.
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Indian holders of US work visas, stranded by pandemic travel bans, found their way back through Qatar, Mexico and other third countries.
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Ankita joins DW's To the Point discussion on the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus and how the world should respond.
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Reports on Indian students admitted to US universities who were struggling to get F-1 visa appointments and vaccinations during the pandemic.
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Reports from a rural hospital in West Bengal on how nurses filled gaps left by doctor shortages during the COVID-19 surge.
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Reports the acquittal of magazine editor Tarun Tejpal of rape charges, almost eight years after a colleague accused him.
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Commentary arguing that a lack of ethics in Indian society contributed to the COVID-19 humanitarian crisis.
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Reports from a Mumbai-area crematorium on the hazardous conditions faced by workers cremating COVID-19 victims.
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Reports that everyone survived a midair collision between two small planes near Denver.
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Reports that Madeleine McCann's parents marked her 18th birthday, 14 years after she disappeared in Portugal.
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Experts suggest how India could contain its second COVID-19 wave, from clearer government messaging to better distribution of medical supplies.
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Reports from Murshidabad on women and children who roll beedis in West Bengal and their demands for fair wages and safer conditions.
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Ankita explains on DW News' debate show To the Point how India's second COVID-19 wave spiralled out of control.
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Commentary arguing that the Indian government wasted a year it had to prepare for a second COVID-19 wave and should own its mistakes.
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Photo gallery on shortages of oxygen, drugs and hospital beds as India's second COVID-19 wave deepened.
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Reports Narendra Modi's review meeting on COVID-19 as India faced shortages of hospital beds, oxygen and remdesivir.
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Reports the UK Home Office's approval of the extradition of Indian jeweller Nirav Modi to India.
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Video report on people in West Bengal's wetlands and border areas who fear a national citizens' register could leave them stateless.
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Reports from West Bengal on the BJP's bid to win the state election and what it means for secularism in the state.
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Reports a study in Human Reproduction finding that more twins are being born worldwide than ever, mostly in poorer countries.
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Photo gallery of Old Delhi's bazaars, Jama Masjid and street food, and how shopkeepers were faring during the farmers' protests and the pandemic.
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Experts weigh whether the Modi government's farm reforms would solve Indian farmers' long-standing problems, starting at a Gurugram wholesale market.
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Reports that a male polar bear killed a female while trying to mate at the Detroit Zoo.
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Reports the arrest of actor Deep Sidhu, accused of inciting farmers to storm Delhi's Red Fort on Republic Day.
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Reports German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier's view that the Navalny case should not be linked to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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Examines the strains in Bangladesh-India relations, from water disputes to religious tension, ahead of Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka.
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Commentary arguing that the violence during farmers' Republic Day tractor rally in Delhi should not be used to delegitimise their protest against the farm laws.
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Reports Twitter's launch of Birdwatch, which lets users add notes to tweets they consider misleading.
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Reports EU officials' call for humane conditions for migrants left homeless in freezing weather in Bosnia.
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Reports that Algeria's president signed the new constitution into law after a referendum with low turnout.
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Photo gallery of Christmas lights and celebrations around the world during the pandemic.
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Reports the restart of the Samarco mine in Brazil, five years after its tailings dam collapse.
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Reports that UK regulator Ofcom fined Republic TV for hate speech against Pakistanis in its show Poochta Hai Bharat.
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Reports the death in Toronto of Baloch rights activist Karima Baloch, who had fled Pakistan for Canada.
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Reports the BBC's defence of nominating J.K. Rowling's essay on sex and gender for its Russell Prize.
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Reporting from Godhra, Vadodara and Ahmedabad on how Muslims in Gujarat live with the legacy of the 2002 riots and the Disturbed Areas Act.
Reports India's plan to end manual scavenging by mechanising sewer cleaning and funding sanitation workers to buy machines.
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Reports the 2020 Climate Transparency finding that India was the only G20 nation on track to meet its climate commitments.
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Reports UNICEF's warning that pandemic disruption to health, education and nutrition services threatened a lost generation of children.
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Reports that Oil India doused the fire at its Baghjan gas well in Assam after nearly six months, and its impact on a nearby national park.
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Examines Pakistan's plan to make Gilgit-Baltistan a full province and whether it changes the Kashmir dispute.
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Reports from Gujarat that dairy farmers supplying the Amul cooperative say their earnings barely cover costs despite its pandemic profits.
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Interview with historian Peter Kuznick of American University on US foreign policy, its wars, Iran and North Korea, conducted in early 2020 and published on the eve of the US election.
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Reports that Afghan security forces said they killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, described as al-Qaida's second-in-command, in Ghazni province.
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Reports the rival televised town halls held by Donald Trump and Joe Biden in place of their second presidential debate.
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Examines the vulnerability of women from the Valmiki caste to sexual violence, following the rape of a 19-year-old in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.
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Reports that jewellery brand Tanishq withdrew an advertisement showing an interfaith family after an online backlash.
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Reports from Surat on how the pandemic hit India's diamond-polishing hub, with workers saying their wages had been halved.
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Migrant workers returning to Mumbai describe the job losses and pay cuts they faced as India's economy struggled after the lockdown.
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Opinion piece arguing that Bollywood perpetuates colourism, sexism and racism against Indian women, drawing on the author's own experiences of remarks about fair skin.
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Examines the role of Tibetans in India's Special Frontier Force after a Tibetan-Indian soldier was killed near the disputed border with China.
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Reports that actor Kangana Ranaut was given VIP security after comparing Mumbai to Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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Reports from Mumbai on how police and 'fever camps' were used to trace COVID-19 cases and enforce distancing in India's most populous city.
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Reports Narendra Modi's 2020 Independence Day speech, in which he pressed his self-reliant India vision and referred to the border clash with China.
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Reports Uber's $1.8 billion second-quarter loss as ride bookings collapsed in the pandemic while food delivery revenue doubled.
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Reports Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on the site of the mosque demolished in 1992.
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Reports the curfew imposed in Kashmir ahead of the first anniversary of the revocation of Article 370.
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Reporting from Kohima on the decades-old Naga conflict and why armed tension persists despite peace talks with New Delhi.
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Interview with Siddhesh Sharma, president of the century-old Ayurveda company Baidyanath, on modernising the brand and moving into drinks for younger consumers.
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Reports that Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek tested positive for COVID-19 and were admitted to hospital in Mumbai.
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Reports the fire that destroyed the roof and interior of the 249-year-old San Gabriel Mission church in Los Angeles.
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Reports that gangster Vikas Dubey, accused of killing eight police officers, was shot dead by Uttar Pradesh police a day after his arrest.
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Reports the killing of BJP leader Sheikh Wasim Bari, his father and brother by militants in Kashmir's Bandipora district.
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Travellers and experts question whether safety rules on India's resumed domestic flights were being enforced as COVID-19 cases rose.
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Women in Gurugram's Sikanderpur Ghosi slum and local doctors describe headaches, anxiety, poor sanitation and limited health care during India's COVID-19 lockdown.
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Reports that Harry Potter fan sites The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet distanced themselves from J.K. Rowling over her statements on transgender people.
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Reports that Finland's air force command quietly dropped the swastika it had used in its logo since 1918.
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Reports protests in Kashmir after photos showed a toddler sitting on the body of his grandfather, killed during a clash between militants and police.
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Reports India's ban on 59 Chinese apps including TikTok amid border tensions, and reactions from users and experts.
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Reports outrage over the deaths of a father and son after police custody in Tamil Nadu, which many compared to the killing of George Floyd.
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Priyanka Kumari, 19, came from Bihar to a Gurugram slum hoping for a better life. India's 2020 lockdown pushed her family to the brink.
Reports Delhi police allegations linking preacher Zakir Naik to a Delhi riots accused, and India's bid to extradite him from Malaysia.
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Reports the backlash against J.K. Rowling after tweets on sex and gender that critics called transphobic.
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Reports India's worst locust swarm in nearly 30 years, which destroyed about 50,000 hectares of cropland during the pandemic.
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Reports from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on crowded Eid celebrations that raised fears of a surge in COVID-19 infections.
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Examines how Sri Lanka kept COVID-19 deaths low through testing and surveillance, and concerns that its Muslims were not benefiting equally.
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Reports on the 'I for India' online concert in which Indian and international celebrities raised funds for people hit by the pandemic.
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Reports that Swedish police found the body of missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch, and press freedom groups' concerns.
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Interview with Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani, who argues the COVID-19 crisis sharpened US-China rivalry and enhanced China's global position.
Reports a German-led study finding that land-dwelling insect numbers fell by about a quarter over 30 years while freshwater insects rose.
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Reports the arrest of 110 people after a mob in Maharashtra's Palghar district beat three men to death after mistaking them for thieves.
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Reports how lax data protection rules in India let hackers steal and sell personal data, through the experience of scam victims and experts.
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Health workers in Bihar describe shortages of protective equipment and poor planning as COVID-19 strained the state's fragile health system.
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Interview with BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal on the Citizenship Amendment Act, the planned National Register of Citizens and the party's image as Hindu nationalist.
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Story of an elderly Danish woman and German man who kept meeting daily at the closed Danish-German border during the pandemic.
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Reports the Netherlands' recall of about 600,000 face masks bought from China after they failed quality tests.
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Reports how thousands of migrant workers set off for their home villages during India's lockdown, and the government's response.
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Reports criticism of Indian police after videos showed officers beating people for breaking the coronavirus lockdown.
Examines whether India's 21-day nationwide lockdown could contain COVID-19 given the country's weak public health system.
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Round-up of the emergency measures countries announced to limit the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Reports US sanctions on companies in China, Hong Kong and South Africa over oil trade with Iran, and on five Iranian nuclear scientists.
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Reports Amazon's plan to hire 100,000 US workers to meet a surge in online orders during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Photo gallery of celebrities who disclosed COVID-19 diagnoses and urged people to self-isolate.
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Reports that the Philippine Stock Exchange became the first to suspend trading because of the COVID-19 outbreak, followed by Sri Lanka.
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Analyses Nepal's growing ties with China in trade and connectivity and the concern this has caused in India.
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Reports that replica graves inside the Taj Mahal were given a clay-pack cleaning for the first time ahead of Donald Trump's visit.
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Reports that Madhya Pradesh withdrew a circular ordering health workers to persuade men to be sterilised or face consequences.
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Reports the formation of South Sudan's coalition government, ending a six-year civil war, and the challenges facing it.
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Reports India's upset win over Australia in the opening match of the women's T20 World Cup and the lack of attention it received at home.
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Western Sydney University told DW it would pay students who had been in China a subsidy to travel to Australia via a third country amid coronavirus travel limits.
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Explains India's telecom crisis after a Supreme Court order on dues to the government left Vodafone Idea's survival in doubt.
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Reports avalanches that killed at least 21 people in Afghanistan's Daykundi province after weeks of heavy snowfall.
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Ahmedabad's municipal commissioner confirmed to DW that a wall was being built in the city before Donald Trump's visit, allegedly to hide a slum.
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Reports flash floods in Australia after months of bushfires and drought, with dams near Sydney overflowing as a cyclone approached.
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Interview with Bhavna Anand Sharma, founder of the supplements company Cureveda, about building an Ayurveda-based business as one of India's few women start-up founders.
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Reports Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of a trust to build a Hindu temple on the site of the demolished Babri mosque in Ayodhya.
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Photo gallery tracing the Ayodhya dispute from the 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque to plans for a Hindu temple on the site.
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Pakistani students stranded in Wuhan tell DW their government refused to evacuate them as the coronavirus spread and supplies ran short.
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Interview with Govindraj Ethiraj, founder of IndiaSpend and DataBaaz, on data journalism, fact-checking and helping young Indians spot fake news.
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Interview with author Naomi Wolf about the criticism of her book Outrages, the life of John Addington Symonds and the continuing relevance of The Beauty Myth.
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Opinion piece on the Citizenship Amendment Act protests, beginning with the December 2019 police action at Jamia Millia Islamia, arguing the law is driven by electoral politics.
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Opinion piece arguing that cultural attitudes, illustrated by the film Kabir Singh's portrayal of an abusive hero, limit the reach of the #MeToo movement in India.
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Interview with Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani about his book Has the West Lost It? and the shift of global power towards Asia.
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Interview with educator Esther Wojcicki about her book How to Raise Successful People and how parents can build trust with their children.
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Interview with Ashweetha Shetty, a first-generation graduate from a Tamil Nadu village who founded the Bodhi Tree Foundation to help rural youth.
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Analysis written as results showed Narendra Modi's BJP heading for a second landslide in India's 2019 general election, on what the victory means and the challenges ahead.
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Interview with theatre director Suba Das about Pink Sari Revolution, a play about Sampat Pal Devi's Gulabi Gang, a women's vigilante group fighting domestic violence in Uttar Pradesh.
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Examines recent student suicides at Indian institutions, including an IIT student in Hyderabad, and the lack of mental health support for students under exam pressure.
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Interview with novelist and filmmaker Trisha Das about her novel Kama's Last Sutra and its portrayal of a modern Indian woman.
Opinion piece after India's Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality, arguing the state must also acknowledge past persecution, citing the case of professor Shrinivas Ramachandra Siras.
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Opinion piece on sexism and body-shaming in India's film and television industry, drawing on the author's own time working in Indian television.
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Interview with Indian Forest Service officer Kunal Satyarthi on Himachal Pradesh's role in India's clean-energy and climate efforts in the Western Himalayas.
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Looks at the accident at NTPC's Unchahar power plant in Uttar Pradesh and what it says about worker safety in Indian industry, from Bhopal onward.
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Opinion piece arguing that attacks on people who dissent from the mainstream narrative in India undermine the country's democratic tradition of debate.
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Interview with bestselling author Amish Tripathi, a former banker turned writer of mythological fiction, about his work and his essay collection Immortal India.
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Reports on the riots in Haryana after self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of raping his followers.
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Analysis of the 2017 India-China standoff at Doklam on the Bhutan border, arguing that prolonging the dispute serves neither country.
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Opinion piece arguing that the death sentences upheld in the Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) gang-rape case will not by themselves deter rape in India.
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Opinion piece arguing that comparisons between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump overlook the different paths and contexts of the two leaders.
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Examines provisions of India's Finance Bill 2017 and the transparency concerns they raised.
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Looks at the scale of crimes against women in India and the work of NGOs trying to tackle gender-based violence.
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Assesses the Make in India campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw foreign investment and manufacturing to India.
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Weighs the effects of India's November 2016 demonetisation on black money and everyday cash transactions, starting from the author's own experience paying at a street restaurant.
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Review of Sarah Tiffin's Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century, on how Raffles-era images of Java's ruined temples served colonial narratives.
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Review of Kaushik Basu's book on Indian economic policymaking, finding it a clear account of the economy but hard going in its theoretical sections for non-economists.
Event report on a July 2015 talk by former Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth on governance in India, covering campaigns such as Swachh Bharat, Make in India and Digital India.
Event report on Amitav Ghosh's talk at LSE about his novel Flood of Fire, covering the readings and the themes raised in the Q&A.
Tribute to LSE alumna Shikha Chhabra, who died of cancer aged 24, introducing a reflection reposted from the blog she kept during her illness.
Event report on Kaushik Basu's 2015 Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE on law and economics, with Amartya Sen and Lord Nicholas Stern as discussants.
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