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A Man from Pasi community (a Dalit or untouchable community of India) serving toddy (Palm wine), a traditional alcoholic drink made from the sap of palm trees. (Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Niko Vorobyov
Orange cat in New Delhi (Andrew Marttila)

The cats of Delhi: A quiet revolution

Hannah Shaw, Andrew Marttila
A labourer is silhouetted against the setting sun as he bathes on a hot summer day in Jammu on June 1, 2024. (MUKESH GUPTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change promises more deadly heat

Matthew Rozsa
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Photo courtesy of HBO)

Oliver rips Modi praise amid crackdown

Nardos Haile
Narendra Modi (C), India's Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) waves to his supporters during a public meeting in Hyderabad on May 10, 2024, ahead of the fourth phase of voting of the country's general election. (NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images)

Hindu nationalism: Why U.S. should worry

Rasheed Ahmed
US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

Arnold R. Isaacs
Smoke rises over the buildings as the Israeli airstrikes continue in Gaza City, Gaza on October 9, 2023. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The threat of Israel-India-U.S. triangle

Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox - TomDispatch.com
Ram, Lakshman and Sita statues (Getty Images/Stockfoo)

How I'll celebrate Diwali as a feminist

Madhvi Ramani
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard as a live telecast is aired near a clock tower in Srinagar on August 23, 2023, showing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft minutes before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)

India is fourth nation to land on Moon

Matthew Rozsa
A view of city in dense smog amid rising air pollution levels, on June 18, 2023 in Noida, India. (Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

India succeeds where US fails on climate

Matthew Rozsa
Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy in "Oppenheimer" (Universal Pictures)

Reframing that "Oppenheimer" sex scene

Sibani Ram
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II with the Imperial State Crown resting on top is seen during the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19, 2022 in London, England. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Coronation jewels' bloody history

Alison Stine
Thenmozhi Soundararajan (D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Caste privilege: A new rights frontier

Samaa Khullar
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was selected by President Joe Biden as his nomination for U.S. Ambassador to India, pending Senate confirmation, at City Hall on Friday, July 9, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Should L.A. mayor get ambassador post?

Libby Liu
Demonstrators hold up placards with images of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who died while in the custody of Iran's morality police, during a demonstration in support of women and the Iranian protesters, on September 28, 2022. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Her name was Jîna Amini: That matters

Samaa Khullar
A Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) worker fumigates an area to prevent mosquitos from breeding in New Delhi. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Why mosquitoes are taking over Delhi

Monika Mondal - Undark
One of 30 special trains leaving New Delhi Station which will take the staff of the Pakistan government to Karachi. Muslim League National Guards stand to attention in honour of the departure. (Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Books & films about India's Partition

Madhur Anand, Ajay Verghese, Amitabh Mattoo, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Uditi Sen - The Conversation
N.T. Rama Rao, Jr. as Komaram Bheem in "RRR" (DVV Entertainment)

Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" has it beat

Melanie McFarland
Farzana Bibi, a maid female domestic servant, a resident in a slum, says she, used to earn Rupees 300 a day ($2.6), she says she has been told not to continue to stop the spread of the virus, as India remains under an unprecedented extended lockdown over the highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19) on April 22, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Hardships for domestic workers in India

Romita Saluja - Undark
A royal Bengal Tiger in its natural habitat (Getty Images/Abhishek Singh)

India's tigers entangled in a blame game

Niranjana Rajalakshmi - Food52
Bishnoi woman preparing Bhang tea from leaves and flowers (buds) of the female cannabis in rural Rajasthan, India (Getty Images/Pavel Gospodinov)

The surprising history of bhang

Sonal Ved - Food52
A street sweeper walks on a sidewalk in New Delhi on February 21, 2022. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Digital snooping on sanitation workers

Qadri Inzamam, Haziq Qadri - Undark
A health worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at a vaccination center run by Amgaon Primary Health Center, which serves the tribal villages of the Talasari region in India. (Photo by Puja Changoiwala for Undark.)

Puja Changoiwala
Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma, Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma and Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma in "Bridgerton" (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

Rating Bridgerton's Indian authenticity

Joy Saha
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