投稿者: Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi
All hospital services except for emergency care to be shut down on Saturday amid outrage over Kolkata attackAll hospital services in India except for emergency care will shut down on Saturday as doctors escalate their protest over the rape and murder o…
Although some domestic staff in the subcontinent are treated well, for most it is a relentlessly harsh and thankless existenceHow the Hindujas, Britain’s richest family, treated their domestic staff at their Swiss mansion made it to the courts and on t…
Emergency unit opens as much of north India has been battered by relentlessly high temperatures every single day since mid-MayAs Dr Amlendu Yadav flicks the switch, the large pipe starts gushing water while he shovels ice into the tub. In two minutes, …
Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the multi-stage Indian election nears its completion.“I am…
And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabilities A deaf Snow White, a blind Cinderella, a neurodivergent ugly duckling and a wheelchair-using Rapunzel: classic European fairytales have b…
The use of AI and ‘animal flyovers’ could prevent hundreds of wild elephants dying each year as railways cut through their habitat, say wildlife expertsLying on a mound of soft sand inside the nursery, Bani looks like a spoilt child being indulged. Two…
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexionsThree months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wi…
Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump among guests expected at pre-wedding party for son of Mukesh Ambani, Anant, and his fiancee Radhika MerchantFor one of India’s richest families, a wedding is not just a wedding – it’s a spectacle designed to dazzle even the …
The campaigner has faced death threats and gone on hunger strike to change laws and bring rapists to justice. She has no plans to stop thereOnce upon a time, Delhi’s Commission for Women was regarded as a toothless, comatose body that few took seriousl…
YouTube robotics tutorials helped 17-year turn his concern for his grandmother into a device that alerts carers if Alzheimer’s patients fall or wander offIn the blissful summer that Hemesh Chadalavada spent with his grandmother in 2018, the pair watche…
Zomato rider resorts to horsepower in Hyderabad after truckers’ strike causes fuel shortage and traffic jamsAn Indian food delivery driver frustrated by long queues for petrol has resorted to horsepower to make his deliveries.A video clip shows the man…
There was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators say India is increasingly a country that cannot take a jokeIt is rare for India’s politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of …
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed by an overloaded and often heartless healthcare systemFrom the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic a…
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing noxious air. A crowded waiting room at one children’s hospital tells the storyIt is the third time in a week that Pankaj Ram, a construction work…
A divorcee who likes a glass of wine and a pair of Ferragamo shoes, the opposition MP has become a target for character assassination for Narendra Modi’s conservatives. But she hits back twice as hardMahua Moitra is a misfit in Indian politics. She rej…