India

Two young Indian children have been taken into care in Norway because their mother fed them with her fingers. Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled.

Filed in: Children Ethics Human Rights India Norway

As a new campaign kicks off, London 2012 organizers are challenged to drink Bhopal’s ‘clean’ water.

Filed in: Disasters India

The Bhopal disaster cost tens of thousands of lives, and blighted half a million. Alan Hughes asks why the company now liable is sponsoring the Olympics rather than paying compensation.

Filed in: Corporations India

India is allowing direct foreign investment, and the supermarkets are sharpening their knives, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Filed in: India Trade

Generic Indian drugs are saving lives around the world. But if the Supreme Court rules in favour of Big Pharma, all that could change.

Filed in: Health India Pharmaceuticals

Mari Marcel Thekaekara on how Bangaloreans, fed up with soaring vegetable prices, are growing their own organic food.

Filed in: Agriculture India

Wild stories fly around about chicken farming but the reality remains less than wholesome, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

Filed in: Agriculture India

With the wealth gap widening, Mari Marcel Thekaekara on a plan to link ethical investors with producers and consumers all over the world.

Filed in: Corporations Ethical Consumerism India Indigenous Peoples Society

A scheme that allows poor children access to private schooling is proving controversial in India’s hugely class-divided society, says Debika Ray.

Filed in: Class Education India Poverty

Arundhati Roy speaks out: on the moral police of India’s anti-corruption campaign, on the silence surrounding civil wars, and on despotism and democracy.

Filed in: Fiction India

In the wake of the riots, Indian writer and activist Mari Marcel Thekaekara on both the stark differences and worrying similarities to the situation on the subcontinent.

Filed in: Activism England India Poverty