India

Indian activists take part in a candlelight vigil
By Soumya Bhattacharya - 03 January 6:33

It won’t be so easy to change the deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset that lead to the rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi.

A candlelight vigil in Kolkata. Photo: Getty
By Priya Virmani - 31 December 12:46

In the backwaters of India, in rural areas still governed by feudal mindsets, rapes and gang rapes continue with impunity. The candle flame wave being carried through Delhi’s foggy, winter nights is not reaching this India.

The Stanserhorn mountain in Central Switzerland.
By Ritwik Deo - 05 December 10:36

A love story based on scenery, souvenir T-shirts, watches and hope.

Neelam, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from Madhya Pradesh, India.
By Rose George - 09 November 18:11

The subject of periods and menstruation is even more taboo for India's girls than defecation - many have no idea what is happening when the bleeding starts.

Portable power generators in use in New Dehli
By William Dalrymple - 11 October 11:35

As India’s growth rates hit the buffers, the poor are sinking beneath a tide of seeming government indifference to their plight as politicians focus on looking after their cronies. Is it goodbye to the Asian tiger?

Niall Ferguson with his wife, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Paul Cotterill - 16 August 12:38

Oddly for a historian, Ferguson doesn't appear to have taken much notice of history.

Labour MP Dan Jarvis listens to slum dwellers in Delhi.
By Dan Jarvis - 09 August 12:01

As you walk through Delhi’s slums, you realise the enormous scale of the problems India faces.

By John Pilger - 30 December 16:30

From Jammu Kashmir to Maharashtra, in a land of empty advertising slogans and fantastic wealth that

By Kapil Komireddi - 29 August 11:52

In response to a series of corruption scandals, the country's citizens are mounting a revolution for

By Samira Shackle - 17 August 15:18

This is not the first time that the Indian government has come down hard on an anti-corruption campa

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