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Striped red-and-white flags adorn a sacred grove in a quiet neighborhood in Ranchi in India. The ubiquitous flags are an assertion of tribal identity.
Sacred Nation
Adherents of Sarnaism try to preserve their identity and culture by pushing for more recognition of their faith in India
Bollywood actresses from left, Siddhi Idnani, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, Adah Sharma and producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah during a press conference for the movie "The Kerala Story" in Mumbai, India, May 17, 2023.
Media
Is the fictional film ‘The Kerala Story’ cautionary or propaganda?
Indian students in uniform clothing arrive at a government-run junior school in Udupi, Karnataka state, India, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. 
Education
Indian govt removes parts of Muslim history from federal textbooks
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
People walk through an informal settlement for trash segregators in Bangalore, India.
Justice
Waste collectors in Bangalore face discrimination and exploitation
soliders with weapons
Military
Russian weapons shortage reduces supply going to India
Supporters of Waris Punjab De shout slogans favoring their chief and separatist leader Amritpal Singh and other arrested activists
Borders
Sikh separatist still on the run in India
Ramrati reads Ramcharitmanas every morning on the lane that connects Barakhamba to KG Marg, in New Delhi, India, March 29, 2014.
Lifestyle & Belief
This 16th-century epic poem sparks political controversy in India
All Assam Students Union (AASU) activists hold hands together as they form a human chain to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act on a road in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. Critics say the bill threatens the secular fabric of India. 
Critical State
Citizen pain: Part I
man at podium outside in the snow
Politics
India’s Rahul Gandhi supporters finish 5-month rally and march against increasingly nationalist state
A security personnel speaks to people from inside the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India
Free speech
Blocking BBC documentary on Gujarat riots goes against India’s democratic values, journalist says
Indian people hold placards and candles as they participate at a candle light vigil as they mark the first anniversary of a young woman's demise after the fatal gang rape, in New Delhi, India, Dec. 29, 2013.
Sexual violence
A decade after the deadly assault of Jyoti Singh, has safety for women in India improved?
The Gaiety theatre in Shimla is a fine example of British colonial-era architecture
‘It is a legacy’: How British-era ghosts are kept alive in India’s hill towns
street intersection
Conflict
Leicester’s Indian diaspora searches for answers after violence rocks multicultural British city
Screenshot of "Pasoori" official music video from the Coke Studio, Season 14
Music
‘It is pure magic’: Pakistani song ‘Pasoori’ climbs the charts in India and beyond
A motorcyclists watches as an employee of a fuel stationin fills petrol, in Mumbai, India
Energy
India, China growing markets for shunned Russian oil
V Sailakshmi, 39, says sex work helped pay for her sister's wedding and for her father's funeral
Women & Gender
‘We are demanding full decriminalization’: Sex workers in India rally for labor rights
A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road due to very hot weather in New Delhi, India
Environment
Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
Superhero Priya fights injustice along with her trusted tiger Sahas.
Environment
Superhero Priya tries to rescue New Delhi from air pollution on Earth Day
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.
Several men supervise a voter registration table adorned with BJP flags during the election in Uttar Pradesh.
Elections
A test for Hindu nationalism as India’s biggest state goes to the polls
Protesting farmers ride tractors and shout slogans as they march to the capital, breaking police barricades, during India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
India repeals controversial farm laws after a year of protests
Commuters drive amidst morning haze and toxic smog as schools and some coal-based power plants close down in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
Heavy smog shuts down schools in India’s capital
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr celebrate holding his posters, after the announcement of the results of the parliamentary elections in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq
Top of The World
Moqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq election
Aerial view of a Hindu temple next to a parking lot and greenery.
Caste in America
Lawsuits bring attention to caste discrimination in the US
Green WhatApp icon surrounded by other apps on a smart phone
Social media
WhatsApp sues Indian government over unconstitutional internet laws, privacy encroachment
Three people wearing white biohazard suits look on to a dead relative out of frame
COVID-19
Two siblings, oceans apart, support each other as medics on the COVID-19 frontlines
Family members of a person who died due to COVID-19 light the funeral pyre at a crematorium
COVID-19
India’s COVID-19 infections could be 15 times higher than reported, says biostatistician
Large crowds of people surround river in India
Religion
India prepares for Kumbh Mela, world’s largest religious gathering, amid COVID-19 fears
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
India Citizenship Bill protests
Citizenship law could do ‘irreversible damage’ to India’s secular fabric
India's Premier Modi in a street celebration
Global Politics
Huge crowds greet India’s Modi in his sacred city seat
A woman looks to the side.
Caste in America
Caste discrimination exists on college campuses. Some schools are trying to change that.
Farha Faiz, a lawyer, speaks with the media
Justice
Instant divorce is unconstitutional in India, finally
India PM
Conflict
Trump and India’s PM could be headed for a clash over visas
A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.
Conflict
Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta
Women on the street
Environment
These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than the men in their village. The men agreed.
Rajendra Singh check dam
Development
India brings back ancient wisdom to fight its modern environmental problems
A passenger cools off a child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in the northern Indian city of Allahabad April 23, 2015.
Environment
Despite the extreme heat wave hitting India ‘you have to keep going’
A woman laborer watches television inside her house at the compound of a brick factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Lifestyle
Have things improved for women in India’s ads? A bit.
Neha Mahajan and Mom
Culture
Celebrating Mother’s Day from ‘across the seven seas’
Deepak Singh's mother, Nirmala. He says it would be almost insulting to send her a Mother's Day card.
Culture
I’ve never sent my mother a Mother’s Day card
Supporters of Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) take part in the celebrations outside the AAP office in New Delhi February 10, 2015.
Global Politics
India’s anti-corruption opposition party wins a shocker in New Delhi
Footage of two Indian sisters defending themselves from harrassment was filmed on a phone by a fellow passenger.
Justice
Indian sisters revive the country’s debate over women’s safety by fending off male attackers on camera
A Indian woman, who underwent sterilization surgery at a makeshift government facility in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh where at least 13 women died.
Health
India uses mass sterilization ‘camps’ to promote family planning — but at a recent one at least 13 women died
Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' rights to education, and Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Global Politics
Meet the Nobel Peace Prize winner you don’t know
"Mandolin" Srinivas performs a live show in Pune, India, in 2009. The musician introduced his electric mandolin into India's ancient Carnatic music.
Music
Remembering the man who reinvented an ancient Indian musical style
Staff from the Indian Space Research Organization celebrate at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore after their Mars Orbiter spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit on September 24, 2014.
Science
Women are the face of India’s Mars mission, but they’re still the exception
A screen shot from Gandhi with extra Aseem Chhabra as a passenger in the background on the train. In the foreground is Saeed Jaffrey (left) as Sardar Patel and Gunter Maria Halmer playing Herman Kallenbach.
Arts
Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi needed hundreds of thousands of extras. Meet one of them
Modi
Global Politics
India’s elections are over and Indians in the US have mixed feelings about the results
Zahir Janmohamed in the Juhapura neighborhood of Ahmedabad.
Global Politics
Narendra Modi’s ‘coronation’ is no slam dunk in India’s elections
Arts, Culture & Media
The Indian band Ska Vengers pulls no punches in a new song blasting a political frontrunner
Varanasi, India, at dawn.
Global Politics
Many in India worry that hundreds of millions of voters will be wrong, when they vote for Modi
Global Scan
North Korea is a great place to ski, if you don’t mind the armed guards
Typists in Calcutta
Arts, Culture & Media
You can still find street typists in India, but probably not for long
Arvind Kejriwal
Global Politics
Vowing to fight corruption, this Delhi engineer may change politics in India forever
A bulldozer removes the security barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi
Global Politics
India is offended by the ‘barbaric’ arrest of its diplomat in New York
Conflict & Justice
Protests in Kenya aim to spur outrage over violence against women