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Kavita ChowdhurySan Francisco Chronicle |
Authorities took down a video that mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s undignified behavior while meeting foreign leaders.
Name-calling and violence against youth from the country’s Northeast in India’s cities stem from deep racial prejudice.
When a mob of Hindutva goons descended on a Muslim shopkeeper, a young gym owner stepped forward to defend him.
The ruling mainstreams menstrual health. But India needs to normalize sex education too. Otherwise, menstruation will be treated as a “dirty...
To meet the deadline, delivery workers were often putting their lives at risk to speed through India’s chaotic and crowded roads.
Months ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, it has delayed the release of his movie, "Jana Nayagan."
A progressive rights-based employment guarantee scheme was scrapped. Inclusive growth remains a pipe dream.
The globally acclaimed MGNREGA, enacted when the Congress party was in power, has been replaced by a law that puts in place a discretionary scheme.
Flight cancellations by India’s largest flight operator, IndiGo, threw the domestic aviation sector into chaos early this month.
After reports of suicides and deaths due to overwork, the Diplomat tracked several Booth Level Officers carrying out the Special Intensive Revision to...
The BJP is using the 150th anniversary of India’s national song, "Vande Mataram," to polarize society and win votes.
Bihar has traditionally seen bipolar election contests. With the entry of the Jan Suraaj party, the contest is triangular this time.
Lofty aims accompanied the setting up of this university. Right-wing activism has sullied its image.
Initially, Taliban Foreign Minister Muttaqi called an all-male press meet. He was then forced to call another presser where women journalists were...
Actor-turned-politician Vijay kept a massive crowd waiting for seven hours in the sweltering heat. A tragedy was waiting to happen.
The West Bengal government canceled the event to avoid ruffling the feathers of Muslim hardliners.
The taking and giving of dowries is banned. Yet an average of 20 women die every day of dowry-related violence.
A whistleblower has revealed that he was forced to bury the bodies of murdered men and raped women over several decades in the temple town.
A 20-year-old student’s complaints of sexual harassment by her college professor in Odisha were ignored by the authorities for over 6 months.
Supporters of Narendra Modi are upset with his castigation of Modi's alleged role in the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002.
As shocking as the murder is its justification, as well as the deafening silence of the political class and civil society.
In an article, the Leader of the Opposition detailed the “industrial scale rigging” of the Maharashtra Assembly elections in favor of the ruling BJP.
Pictures of Modi in an Indian Air Force fighter pilot uniform are all over the country, as the BJP works overtime to project him as the dynamic leader...
Hindutva supporters deify the nation as "Bharat Mata" (Mother India). But brand women as anti-national if they don’t ascribe to their jingoism.
India figures in the bottom 15 percent of 179 countries with regard to academic freedom, according to V-Dem’s 2025 report.
Right-wing political activists went on a rampage against comedian Kunal Kamra for cracking jokes about ruling party politicians.
It calls for a “spatial approach” of targeted interventions in Muslim-concentrated spaces and “ghettos” and in sectors and occupations...
Official data shows that every third woman in India is a victim of domestic violence
The movie has conservatives and men’s groups up in arms.
There was a 74 percent increase in hate speech in 2024. But neither the government nor the public seems alarmed.
It has been 27 years since the BJP governed the capital. It is determined to unseat the ruling AAP in the state.
Even as India’s online delivery app businesses are booming, the bleak situation of the sector’s “delivery partners” – i.e. the gig workers of the...