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Some Indian men are threatening a marriage strike for a most dubious reason. Nilanjana Bhowmick tells them to bring it on.

18 Apr 2022 2 minute read

Bring on the marriage strike

Some Indian men are threatening a marriage strike for a most dubious reason. Nilanjana Bhowmick tells them...

28 Feb 2022 6 minute read

Trapped in the state-corporate nexus

Villagers in the Indian state of Odisha are fighting a major steel plant development, in the face of...

18 Feb 2022 2 minute read

No laughing matter

Laughter has become a risky business, observes Nilajana Bhowmick.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Cropped by User:Andrew Dalby

31 Jan 2022 4 minute read

An India-UK trade deal could mean a race to the bottom for Indian workers

Two themes loom over the announcement that the UK is launching trade talks with India – farmers and Big Pharma, says...

21 Jan 2022 5 minute read

How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

Jason Hickel shines a different light on a catastrophe that killed three million Indians.

14 Jan 2022 8 minute read

Old school adaptation

Moushumi Basu reports from Assam, India, on the people turning to traditional ‘home grown’ strategies to...

Disciplinary action for 'anti-national' speech is becoming increasingly used against oppressed caste backgrounds or minority religious communities, often employees at less-privileged, rural universities. WikiCommons/Biswarup Ganguly

13 Jan 2022 5 minute read

‘Anti-nationalism’: the spectre haunting Indian higher education

Highly networked rightwing students, acting with political patronage, are stifling academic freedom, writes Sruti Bala...

Women stand in a row holding hands in the air

28 Dec 2021 3 minute read

Taking on the torch-bearers of patriarchy

A growing number of women are going against the stream in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Catching up with the Trolley Times, Ghaziabad, India, April 2021. The fourpage weekly newspaper, printed in Gurmukhi and Hindi, was founded in December 2020 to give voice to the farmers’ protest. SOPA IMAGES LIMITED/ALAMY

23 Nov 2021 9 minute read

Holding out for the harvest

Narendra Modi has announced his intention to repeal the contentious agriculture laws unwaveringly resisted by India's...

Image is everything: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the campaign trail prior to the West Bengal elections, March 2021, which his party lost. The huge rallies by all parties were criticized for their irresponsibility during India’s coronavirus crisis. SIPA USA/ALAMY

3 Nov 2021 6 minute read

The vice tightens

The image-obsessed Indian government is intent on shutting down dissent. Rishika Pardikar examines ploys in...

19 Oct 2021 2 minute read

Why women don’t loiter

Nilanjana Bhowmick on why women won’t linger awhile.

17 Aug 2021 2 minute read

The oxygen gap

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

29 Jun 2021 3 minute read

A state of chaos

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the colossal failure of governance that has led to needless deaths on a massive scale...

20 Jun 2021 2 minute read

No country for her

Women experiencing abuse from their partners need more than a helpline, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

KM Bhai conducting an RTI Workshop at his tea stall. Credit: KM Bhai

19 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Would you like answers with your chai?

From his tea stall in rural Uttar Pradesh, Krishna Murari Yadav is supporting people to ask difficult questions...

16 Mar 2021 2 minute read

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Saving the Sundarbans

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable...

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