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Protesters gather in Delhi to denounce ruling overturning high court's decision in 2009 to decriminalise homosexual relations
After meeting India's "sumangali girls," I'll never look at cute, cheap clothes the same way again.
An Indian-American wins the Miss America crown, and Aasif Mandvi explains what this means for the rest of the country.
In a tit-for-tat trade battle between the US and India over solar power, what is certain is that the environment will be the loser.
An Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj. Sudha Bharadwaj is a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee). CMM was founded in 1982 by legendary union leader Shankar Guha Niyogi (assassinated in 1991), to organize beyond union issues alone. Sudha is also part of a legal collective, called Janhit, that works with movement organizations. Justin Podur interviewed her in Raipur in March 2013.
India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board allows license for generic cancer drug at fraction of cost of Bayer's.
Banks and public transport disrupted with at least two people reported dead amid protests across the country.
Just before breakfast, the government of India secretly hanged Afzal Guru, prime accused in the attack on parliament in December 2001, and interred his body in Delhi's Tihar jail where he had been in solitary confinement for 12 years. Was this execution just? Was the trial fair? Or are the political parties and the institutions of Indian democracy on trial?
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