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Lifestyle & Belief
Environmental concerns impact beloved Hindu festival in India
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Women rush out of a train during peak hours at Churchgate station in Mumbai, India, Monday, March 20, 2023.
Jobs
Indian women do less paid work. It’s bad news for the economy.
a man sleeping on the ground outside of a temple
Sacred Nation
Housing segregation in India has affected millions of people for several generations
trucks
In Mumbai, waste pickers do the heavy lifting of recycling  
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani attends the "Invest Karnataka 2016 Global Investors Meet" in Bangalore, India, Feb. 3, 2016. 
Business, Economics and Jobs
Indian billionaire businessman Gautam Adani faces scrutiny
buildings
Redevelopment proposal for Mumbai’s largest informal settlement stirs controversy
An audience watches actors Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol on the big screen.
Arts, Culture & Media
This beloved Bollywood film gets a new life on Broadway
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2011, a graffiti against revealing the gender of unborn fetuses stands outside a clinic in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. 
Abortion
India’s abortion law still lacks a rights-based approach, gynecologist says
Members of the All India Insurance Employees' Association gather at LIC's office in Hyderabad in southern India to protest against the company's IPO, which they say goes against its ethos.
Finance
Life Insurance Corporation of India is a household name in the country. It could soon be India’s largest-ever IPO.
Anuja Bali asks a family in Pashan, Pune about their consumption of liquid petroleum gas.
Energy
India’s Warrior Moms tackle indoor air pollution — ‘the silent killer’ 
People pay tribute in front of a portrait of Lata Mangeshkar, the legendary singer placed on a decorated podium in Kolkata, India, Feb. 7, 2022. 
Music
‘She had an aura’: The world mourns late Indian songstress Lata Mangeshkar
An Indian teen reacts as she receives Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine at a government school in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. 
COVID-19
India postpones in-school learning as omicron surges 
A large military rescue helicopter is shown in the distance with a man wearing a PFD is wheeled on a tarmac.
Natural disasters
India scours sea after barge sinks, 2nd adrift after cyclone
A group of people are shown amid heavy rainfall pushing and pulling a teal blue boat on two wheels.
India braces for powerful cyclone amid deadly virus surge
A child looks up at a TV screen with several apps to choose from at his home in New Delhi, India.
Arts, Culture & Media
India’s ‘streaming dream’ may dim with new digital regulations
Pradhyuman is seen in an undated handout image from the Netflix series "Indian Matchmaking." 
Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ stirs conversation about tradition, colorism and caste
A young woman stands on stage and rehearses her poem.
The Big Fix
Global network of young people writes poems to cope with climate crisis
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are shown sitting in arm chairs and leaning toward each other shaking hands.
Top of The World
Trump suggests inviting Russia to the G-7; A global spotlight on US amid ongoing protests
A man is shown riding a motorcycle with two police officers adjacent trying to stop him from passing.
COVID-19
India locks down its 1.3 billion people to halt coronavirus spread
India Citizenship Bill protests
Citizenship law could do ‘irreversible damage’ to India’s secular fabric
A man sits in front of two computer monitors.
Science & Technology
Internet ‘deepfakes’ threaten truth and reality
A woman politician gives a thumbs up on back of truck
Global Politics
Women are becoming ‘electable’ candidates in India — even when they don’t win
band photo
Arts, Culture & Media
How a Japanese girl-group empire is conquering Asian pop
Several women in saris and a man laugh
Caste in America
Even with a Harvard pedigree, caste follows ‘like a shadow’
Dawoodi Bohra Muslims
Lifestyle & Belief
In India’s Dawoodi Bohra community, there’s a growing debate about FGM
A woman is talking into a screen next to a microphone in a dark room. On the right, words say, "composer, music producer, singer songwriter Sawan Dutta"
Arts, Culture & Media
This Indian composer’s first hit was a song about Boroline. Now she’s an internet sensation.
Dancing Queens
Women & Gender
What India’s first trans women-led dance troupe wants people to know
A teenage boy in a white shirt speaks to a group of people holding signs at an outdoor plaza in front of a building with many stone columns.
Education
US teens around the globe organized March For Our Lives events because ‘it doesn’t have to be this way’
Volunteers crouch on the wet sand as they pick up trash from a beach near Mumbai's Versova jetty
Environment
This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup
Commuters walk through water-logged roads after rains in Mumbai.
Environment
Photos: Mumbai recovers from floods after the most rainfall in a more than a decade
Colorful roofs of taxis.
Arts
In Mumbai, Uber must compete with vibrant taxi roofs
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump
Global Politics
In Mumbai, ‘shock and horror’ over Trump’s statements about women
Aki Kumar
Music
I wanted to be bigger than Bill Gates — but I fell in love with the blues
Men dance as others spray colored powder on them during Holi celebrations in India.
Environment
How do you celebrate Holi in the middle of a drought?
6 Pack Band
Music
A ‘Happy’ song in India has a complicated backstory
Deepa Mehta's "Deck of Cards" sari.
Culture
This is not my mother’s sari
Marco and Reshma
Justice
This is the face of a new beauty campaign in India. To end the sale of acid.
Development
Indian dudes to Indian dudes: Respect women
Development
Confronting gender disparity? Start with chores, these Indian teens say.
In Salman Rushdie's fantastical new novel, shape-shifting genies lay siege to humanity.
Culture
Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a fantastical portrait of beguiling genies who threaten humanity. So, yeah, it’s pretty much today’s world.
People celebrate during the Ganesh festival in Mumbai.
Culture
Why the Ganesh festival is noisy, colorful and insane
Sports
She could have been a child bride like her sisters. But she became a coach instead.
Lifestyle
#WhyLoiter reclaims public — and inner — space for Indian women
Ayesha and Marco D'Souza with their daughter Tenaya
Culture
This Mumbai couple waited to adopt a daughter: ‘We just wanted a girl’
Garment shop in Mumbai
Justice
Mumbai slum dwellers say ‘I have to help’ stop violence against women
The Bombay Canteen's Uncle's Mutton Curry with kamal kakdi and lemongrass.
Culture
Inspired by his grandmother to cook, he’s now executive chef at The Bombay Canteen
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Development
On the ground in Mumbai with Across Women’s Lives: Escaping the chaos
Varsha Deshpande
Justice
How come there are no girls? Pregnant women in India want to know.
The author, with her extended family, in India.
Culture
Her first days in America were lonely, but this immigrant from India built a life here
Restaurant window damaged in 2008's militant attack is seen at the railway station in Mumbai.
Justice
Did bulk surveillance programs really stop an American-born terrorist? Probably not
Culture
What the bleep? It’s Mumbai, not Bombay
The horn usage meter called Oren, developed by Indian economist Jayraj Salgaonkar.
Technology
If you want to honk in India, you may have to pay
More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.
Development
Women in India agitate for their right to pee
Indian cartoonist Kanika Mishra next to her cartoon creation, Karnika Kahen.
Global Politics
India’s first cartoon everywoman is the product of a female cartoonist who stood up to her own critics
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Justice
A Trinidadian immigrant reflects on her hometown of Ferguson, Missouri
Modi
Global Politics
India’s elections are over and Indians in the US have mixed feelings about the results
Bacon wrapped with naan bread at Dishoom cafe in London
Lifestyle & Belief
Indian food in London goes upscale and creative — naan, bacon and chili tomato jam anyone?
Arts, Culture & Media
What Harvard learned by studying India’s lunchbox delivery system
Arts, Culture & Media
What Harvard learned by studying India’s lunchbox delivery system
US Government Shutdown
Global Politics
Want to know what the world is saying about our government shutdown? We asked