Ten Years of Modi’s Disastrous Rule

Narendra Modi has kept India on its swift upward path among the world’s largest economies. Many Indians are better off, though wealth gaps have widened. Alex Travelli, the South Asia business correspondent, has reported from New Delhi since 2013. S. Now as Mr. Modi stands set to secure another term as prime minister in elections starting on April

Indian Punjabi Girls Interest in Cricket

By Mujib Mashal The girls arrive at the makeshift cricket ground on their bicycles, a narrow file of white athletic uniforms breezing down a dirt track that cuts through lush wheat fields in India’s Punjab region. They wear their names and numbers on their backs, their hair tied in long, neat braids. The youngest is 9,

Kashmiri student languishing in Indian prison for past seven months

More than seven months ago when Abdul Samad, a resident of Azad Kashmir, accidentally crossed the Line of Control (LoC) he had no idea about the ordeal he and his family were going to be put through. The 14-year-old, Abdul Samad, crossed the LoC by mistake in November 2021 and now seven months later, his

India in a Different Voice

By Maya Jasanoff Ms. Jasanoff is a professor of history at Harvard and a contributor to the anthology “India at 75” published by PEN America. In 2019 I received in the mail a small vinyl-covered booklet in light blue, embossed with three golden lions. It is my overseas citizen of India (O.C.I.) card, a privilege for

The Fading Ghosts of India’s Bloody Partition

With the passing decades, nationalist fervor and mutual suspicion have largely replaced memories of mass death and displacement during the chaotic cleaving of Pakistan from India. By Mujib Mashal, Hari Kumar and Zia ur-Rehman/ Aug. 14, 2022 For seven decades, Sudarshana Rani has ached to learn her younger brother’s fate. She was just a child when the

Survivors of Partition Seek Closure Through YouTube

The YouTube channel Punjabi Lehar, based in Pakistan, has reunited people who were separated by the partition of India in 1947. By Salman Masood and Mike Ives/ Aug. 13, 2022 Nasir Dhillon, a former policeman, sells houses in a Pakistani city about 100 miles from the Indian border. His real estate company has four locations and he drives

Fighting Fake News in India

Alt News, an independent website, has emerged as a leading debunker of misinformation in the nation, but highlighting hate speech against minorities has put it on a collision course with the government. By Suhasini Raj/ Sept. 22, 2022/ NYT India — The two men were unlikely candidates to work in the news business. Neither had a

Asia’s Richest Man: Gautam Adani

The business decisions of Gautam Adani could go a long way in determining whether India helps the world avert a climate catastrophe. By Emily Schmall and Hari Kumar Gautam Adani is four decades and billions of dollars removed from the hustling trader he became at age 15, when he quit school and left home for the diamond district

Hindus Desperate to Flee Kashmir

By Hari Kumar and Mujib Mashal/ June 3, 2022 As hundreds of Hindu families fled the Kashmir region in recent weeks amid a spike in targeted militant attacks, Sandeep Raina, a 38-year-old engineer, resigned himself to his worst fear: that he would have to abandon his home once again. He had been 8 years old — almost the

The Kashmir Files is Polarizing India

Called propaganda by critics and essential viewing by fans, “The Kashmir Files,” an unexpected blockbuster, has drawn the support of PM Modi’s BJP. An advertisement for the “The Kashmir Files” outside a theater in the old quarters of Delhi. By Suhasini Raj/ May 26, 2022 A group of boys are playing cricket on a snowy field

Kashmiri Journalists Facing Arrests

By Suhasini Raj/ April 16, 2022 After being held in jail for close to four years awaiting trial on charges of aiding militants, the Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan was recently granted bail by the courts, and he thought he could finally return home to his wife and his daughter, who was just 6 months old when

Arundhati Roy: 7 Lesser-Known Facts About Her

From being an award-winning author to fighting for social justice, Arundhati Roy, is a woman who has donned several hats in her lifetime. Arundhati Roy is an internationally celebrated author and activist. She has won several awards, including The Booker Prize and the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom Award-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy was