Book Review: India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation

Yogesh Joshi 2 July 2010
Historical and cultural detail provides a rich understanding of India's powerful new business houses

It tolls for thee

Zainab Mahmood 17 June 2010
After attacks on mosques last month left almost a hundred Ahmadis dead, Pakistan must decide what kind of nation it wants to be. Choose wisely, implores Zainab Mahmood.

Legitimising violence: India's red scare

Gautam Das 17 June 2010
India's exaltation of progress has led it to disregard violence perpetrated against its own people, argues Gautam Das

Delhi's Common-poverty Games

Michael Arthur 14 June 2010
In preparation for the upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi is bursting with expensive construction and renovation projects. But these measures will do little to alleviate the living conditions in its slums, says Michael Arthur

Moving Parts part 3: Guddu and Pintu

Ruchir Joshi 29 March 2010
In this third excerpt from the Moving Parts series Ruchir travels to the town of Khhair with cousins Guddu and Pintu, where Ruchir learns about the systematized corruption involved in the Indian construction business.

Moving Parts part 2: Hajiriya and Gajiriya

Ruchir Joshi 22 March 2010
In this second excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits two brothers, Hajiriya and Gajiriya, who have contracted the terminal disease Silicosis as a result of their work at the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra.

Life by traffic light - Delhi's street kids

Spriha Srivastava 19 March 2010
Can India begin to channel some of the creative energy of its twenty-five million street children? Why don’t school lunch schemes work?

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Mark Perryman 17 March 2010
Win a T-shirt from Philosophy football.

Sri Lanka's forgotten Tamils

Melanie Gouby 16 March 2010
Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands

Moving Parts: Prajapati

Ruchir Joshi 15 March 2010
In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra where many local workers claim that hazardous working conditions are resulting in serious health problems

Bangladesh erupts in ethnic violence

Pinaki Roy 5 March 2010
Bangladesh has been rocked by the recent flaring up of decades old ethnic tensions, as Bengali settlers set fire to hundreds of indigenous homes. Pinaki Roy reports from Dhaka on the latest developments and explores the background to the violence

India's big guns bazaar

Nitasha Kaul 4 March 2010
Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.

Aman ki Asha: the stars are aligned

Rakesh Mani 27 February 2010
There are some rare occasions when the powers-that-be discover that it is ‘realistic’ to support civilian peace initiatives; when the manipulation of grievance has to be put in rapid reverse…

Reimagining democracy - India more than counts

Anthony Barnett 25 February 2010
The founder of openDemocracy on a mind-changing trip to India.

Ethnic riots provoke arson in Bangladesh's troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts

Josephine Whitaker 25 February 2010
Chittagong Hill Tracts shaken by riots and arson. India and Pakistan take steps to rebuild their relationship. Niger leaders rule themselves out of elections. Darfur rebels contradict president’s claim that the war is over. All this and more in today’s briefing.
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