Fistful of nothing.
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India is engulfed in chaos after Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the wrong policy at the wrong time.
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The Indian government recently demonetised 86% of its country’s cash – and kicked off a logistical nightmare.
Remnants of British imperialism remain.
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The disdain for human life that underpinned the British Empire has been brought home.
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa at the BRICS summit in Goa, India. Brazil’s position is shaky.
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Brazil’s place within the BRICS bloc is becoming questionable. Since the new President Michel Temer took over, Brazil’s foreign policy has shifted away from BRICS ideals to favour western interests.
Public toilets in the city of Varanasi in India.
Jorge Royan
For an emerging country like India, it is easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge.
Setting up a new economy is no easy task.
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The removal of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes is pushing India to look for new ways to spend its money.
India’s crackdown on black money has inconvenienced a large group of people.
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The currency switch is one of a number of steps taken by the Modi government to crack down on corruption and tax avoidance.
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The government in Delhi must be more ambitious. Current plans for more renewable energy plants are just a tenth of what is needed.
Hindustani classical music played on a river boat in Banaras.
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Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
Not all protestors were as peaceful as Gandhi.
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The road to independence was not a simple tale of civil disobedience.
The people who live on the Niyamgiri mountain have tried to say no to mining. But the government is not listening.
Reinhard Krause/Reuters
Local people in India are supposed to be protected by progressive laws. But the reality is a far cry from that.
Bring in your business, but not your people.
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Theresa May is looking to India for trade and investment, but it’s undermined by her anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Cyrus Mistry pictured leaves after a meeting in Mumbai, Oct 26.
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Theresa May was supposed to meet with bosses of the Indian conglomerate, but an age-old issue with the family firm has got in the way.
Students turn out for the ‘One Billion Rising’ movement, to end violence against women worldwide.
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India’s economy keeps growing, but women’s rights are going backwards: why?
Delhi: in need of clean air and fresh water.
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A project in the Western Himalaya has highlighted some valuable lessons for the future.
At least 70 people died in a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan in August – most of them lawyers.
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A new tool is tracking attacks on people for their religion, politics, caste, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation.
Members of Hindu Sena, a right wing Hindu group, shout slogans during a protest against Hillary Clinton in New Delhi.
Adnan Abidi/ Reuters
Regardless of US presidential results, India needs to keep the United States close to maintain the balance of power in South Asia.
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Narendra Modi’s government is drumming up war hysteria on the eve of crucial state elections. The gathering storm threatens India’s increasingly beleaguered democracy.
Protestants hold a Sunday service in the open air in Jakarta. Their efforts to erect their own church buildings have been blocked by hardline Muslim groups.
Cherian George
Truth’s victory over hate propaganda is neither automatic nor preordained. It requires a commitment to equal rights and norms of tolerance.
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Britain and India may be linked by colonial ties, but India is intent on forging a new relationship based on in its own interests.