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Nepal Flood Disaster: How a Tattoo Helped Identify One Man Amid a National Struggle to Name the Dead
Nepal Flood Disaster: How a Tattoo Helped Identify One Man Amid a National Struggle to Name the Dead
5 min read
Bodies have travelled hundreds of kilometres from the Bhote Koshi to the plains, filling morgues, hospital corridors and temporary cold rooms. With nearly 2,000 people still missing, Nepal is racing t ...
Ganga Treaty: Waters of Discord
8 min read
With Bangladesh drawing closer to Pakistan, India should rethink renewal of the Ganga treaty
Stepping Up to the Plate: Will India finally manage to clean up its food?
12 min read
An unprecedented crackdown on restaurants and packaged products by a maverick bureaucrat in Maharashtra. Actions elsewhere by FSSAI and other state bodies.
What Rahul Gandhi Wants
10 min read
The Congress leader has made an outreach to young voters after the Cockroach Janta Party's challenge to Narendra Modi
An Islamic NATO: The Mecca Mirage
14 min read
Has Trump given his blessings to Pakistan’s drumbeat pursuit of an Islamic NATO on the assumption that a mélange of Sunni nations would always take its cue from Washington? That would be naïve
I.N.D.I.A. Bloc Parties: Allies in Anxiety
8 min read
I.N.D.I.A. bloc parties are less critical of Rahul Gandhi than they were a few months ago but they are uneasy about his fixation on momentary slogans and short-term goals
‘Vande Mataram’: The Politics of the Missing Stanzas
5 min read
By sterilising ‘Vande Mataram’, Congress is surrendering a part of India’s cultural inheritance
Back to the Future for ₹1,500: How KidZania and Big Brands Turn Nostalgia into a Profitable Business
10 min read
KidZania is letting adults pay to become pilots, surgeons and firefighters inside its miniature city. Behind the kidult entertainment sits the larger business of nostalgia marketing. From Paper Boat, ...
What is Climate Injustice? Why CJI Surya Kant Says the Poor Are Paying Twice for a Crisis They Barely Created
8 min read
Rich nations built their prosperity on two centuries of fossil fuels. Developing countries now face the floods, droughts and disappearing livelihoods, while also being asked to finance a rapid green t ...