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Migration mess
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/04/2020
» When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown on March 24, it was aimed at ensuring social distancing and giving authorities time to ramp up facilities including testing kits, hospital beds and ventilators in the fight against the new coronavirus.
Unsocial media: religious insults spread online in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 20/11/2017
» Iqbal Jaildar has had his hands full in the last two months. The head of the panchayat (local council) in Bichhor, a village 90 kilometres south of Delhi, he has been busy defusing communal tension triggered by offensive social media posts by both Hindu and Muslim young people.
Journalists under increasing attack in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/10/2017
» Deeksha Sharma was scared and baffled at the same time when she received a death threat on her WhatsApp messaging account on Sept 16.
Inspiring odyssey: Indian man cycles for months to find missing partner
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 12/12/2016
» The story of Tapeshwar Bhagat, 40, a daily-wage labourer who looks like a renunciant with his flowing salt-and-pepper beard and curly hair locks, makes for a perfect movie script.
For god's sake
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 04/07/2016
» The first thing you notice about Devmali, a village in Ajmer district of western Rajasthan, is that everyone lives in houses made of mud. Using cement and bricks, local residents explain, would anger their local deity Devnarayan and bring bad luck. Only he deserves a concrete temple.
India cracks down on abuse of matchmaking websites
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 20/06/2016
» A young man meets a young woman on a matrimonial website. He wins her confidence online and, after promising marriage, asks her to deposit money in his bank account to meet an unspecified "emergency". Another man meets a woman through a matchmaking site, invites her to his home and rapes her.
Cram-school capital
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/06/2016
» Ask Aastik Himta why he's taking coaching classes for the Indian Institute of Technology examination and he offers a blank stare.
Alternate-day driving comes to choking Indian capital
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/12/2015
» New Delhi will greet the New Year with as many as 900,000 fewer private vehicles on its congested, smog-shrouded roads. The number could rise further now that the state government has decided to extend its alternate-day driving restrictions to vehicles entering the megalopolis of 25.8 million from outside.