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Protesters chant slogans during the demonstration. Farmers of various states of the country marched on the street in support of the farmers who are protesting against the central government's new farmer's agricultural laws. (Photo by Pradeep Gaur / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

25 Jan 2021 4 minute read

Why are Indian farmers angry?

With the government trying out a variety of ploys to derail the mass movement, Indian farmers are determined to resist until...

Damages wrought by the 2020 Bangalore riots. Credit: Times of India

4 Jan 2021 11 minute read

Displaced by a riot

Since 2018, a remarkable uptick in communal violence has taken shape in India. Dilnaz Boga speaks to...

Credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT). Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh, India. 

7 Dec 2020 3 minute read

Adding pain to the pandemic

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working...

Students of group 11 and 12 get computer education in the computer classroom of secondary government school ‘Anjoor’ in the village Ramanagaram, 60km from Bangalore. Credit: Wim Klerx/Computer caste

8 Oct 2020 3 minute read

View from India

Schoolchildren are falling through the digital divide, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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31 Aug 2020 3 minute read

Why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow

Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

5 Aug 2020 4 minute read

The interview: Sarojini Nadimpally

Fresh from organizing deliveries of PPE to frontline workers, social scientist Sarojini Nadimpally...

Rajasthan, India On the way to Pushkar Women in the countryside

13 Jul 2020 3 minute read

Abandoning the rural poor

The deadly neglect of India’s rural communities must end, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Children join with residents of Mahul to form a human chain as part of an International Human Rights Day protest against the government. Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

10 Jun 2020 7 minute read

Unfit for habitation

India’s air pollution crisis affects millions, and not just in Delhi. Aruna Chandrasekhar meets people...

Credit: Sonali Pal Chaudhury/Nur Photo/PA

1 Jun 2020 3 minute read

Hall of infamy: Amit Shah

Is Amit Shah, the scandal-ridden Indian home minister, too cunning for his own good?

Arrested Rohingya people leave a Hlegu court, outside Yangon, Myanmar, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

1 Jun 2020 2 minute read

Can the world handle another Rohingya crisis?

India is looking at the world’s largest statelessness crisis. Nilanjana Bhowmick asks, have we learned ...

Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law in Shaheen Bagh, area of New Delhi, India January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

28 Mar 2020 2 minute read

Long live Shaheen Bagh

Husna Rizvi on the militant women at the centre of India’s thriving secular movement.​

A boatsman rows a boat on river Ganges past holy 'ghats' (banks) in the northern Indian city of Varanasi December 16, 2007. REUTERS/Arko Datta 

5 Mar 2020 3 minute read

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Varanasi’s secular dream

Nilanjana Bhowmick observes tolerance in India’s most holy city.

Looking the very picture of a traditional way of life, mathematics teacher Phunchok Angmo, photographed at Thiksey monastery, near Leh, Ladakh, is observing startling changes in her pupils. 'The children here no longer care about the culture and they spend less time taling to eachother,' she says. 'They spend their free time on laptops.'

4 Feb 2020 7 minute read

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Globalization and extremism – join the dots

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

Rag pickers collect recyclable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi November 19, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

8 Jan 2020 3 minute read

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Invisible green warriors

Nilanjana Bhowmick heralds India's most overshadowed environmentalists: waste-pickers

Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law, outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, January 1, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

6 Jan 2020 6 minute read

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Not Modi’s India any more

Ongoing countrywide protests are rooted in a battle for India’s secular values, argues Nilanjana Bhowmick...

6 Oct 2019 3 minute read

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Radical readings on Kashmir

As Kashmir enters the 64th day of a communications blackout, Ammar Bukhari recommends a reading list on the...

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