A new book by Manjula Datta O’Connor argues that family violence raises some culturally specific issues, but the problem is not limited any particular group.
Supporters of a Pakistani religious group burn an effigy depicting the former spokeswoman of India’s ruling party, Nupur Sharma, during a demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan.
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A scholar of Islam writes about how widespread authoritarianism in the Muslim world shapes governments’ foreign policy toward Muslim minorities abroad.
Russia is losing tanks at an astonishing rate.
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Tista Kundu, Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi
Preliminary research finds that India’s high growth rate has failed to trickle down to society’s marginalised communities, with caste, gender and background still dictating life chances.
Indian construction workers try to keep cool.
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In Canada, the French and English languages generally peacefully coexist.
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It’s common for people to live near others who speak a different – but similar – language. But generally, they handle their differences without violence.
Monte Carlo simulations can predict different potential outcomes because they provide for the presence of random variables or elements.
An Indian woman sorts reusable items from a landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi in March 2021. Trash pickers sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers and provide a vital service to cities. Their subsistence work is put at risk by smart city technologies.
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This long, uncharacteristically early heatwave has hit hundreds of millions of people in one of the world’s most densely populated and vulnerable regions.
India remains neutral on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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