India heads to the polls in April and May for the world’s biggest democratic exercise. Why the world should be watching this election.
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As the world's largest democracy heads to the polls, we explore the big issues facing India in a seven-part podcast series.
On 27 March, India announced it had successfully conducted an anti-satellite missile test, Mission Shakti. India is now the fourth country in the world displaying this capability.
Tobacco companies are enlisting the help of social media influencers to promote traditional cigarettes and their brands to young people.
Despite growing trade between the EU and India, talks stalled in 2013 after 16 rounds, only resuming in 2018. Some in Brussels blame Britain.
India does not have an official Africa policy, even though it has been engaging with the continent for over six decades.
The Indian summer monsoon rainfall affects the lives of over a billion people. By looking at how prehistoric climate changes affected it, scientists can contribute to its future prediction.
Rather than focusing on specific cultural practices, we need to concentrate on all forms of economic abuse as coercive control.
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own – robots – playing key roles in historic moments.
It started on February, 14 when a suicide attack killed more than 40 people in the Indian controlled part of Kashmir. Now, Pakistan and India’s conflict over the disputed region is heating up again.
India requires large enterprises to spend 2% of their profits on corporate social responsibility projects. It’s a bold idea, but looks doomed to fail.
India’s youths, an eighth of the world’s population, are facing a growing unemployment crisis. Australia must engage with this global demographic, for our own benefit and theirs.
Women in countries such as India, Pakistan and others have long organized campaigns against sexual violence – many of which have resulted in stronger laws in these countries.
A nuclear exchange, which would unleash untold destruction on both countries’ civilian populations, remains a possibility.
India and Pakistan have been fighting for control over Kashmir, an 86,000-square-mile territory in the Himalayas, for seven decades. But the people of Kashmir have their own political goals too.
India has more WhatsApp users than any other democracy – and a worrying history of ‘fake news’.
India and Pakistan enter into a volatile situation after weeks of increasing tension.
Guaranteeing unemployed South Africans a job at the minimum wage would have a range of positive outcomes for the economy.
Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta has opened the floodgates.
For as little as $4 a day Indian workers process dangerous, toxic waste by hand. This unregulated, highly polluting industry is hidden away from police eyes.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, International Politics, University of Adelaide
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Professor of International Relations, Griffith University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Host of The Anthill Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College., University of Cambridge
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Professor and Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
