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The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers’ fight with a giant

Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…

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‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resourcesAs a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no p…

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