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Eco-warriors
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 01/07/2019
» The "school strike" outside the Swedish parliament in August last year and the emergence of the Extinction Rebellion movement have inspired thousands of eco-warriors across India, who are turning up the heat in their campaign against pollution and environmental degradation.
Political consultants raising the bar in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/05/2018
» Political research and analysis, designing and planning campaigns, training and managing election workers, data mining, digital outreach and helplines for voters, producing campaign videos -- you name it and Manish Jha does it.
Image problem: Madrasas resist Modi portraits
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/01/2018
» Maulana Altaf Hussain Mazahiri is an angry man. The target of his outrage is the government in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, which has issued an order that a portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi be displayed in the school he runs.
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.
Saints and sinners
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 17/08/2015
» India seems to be witnessing a deluge of cases involving less-than-saintly activity by Hindu "godmen" with at least half a dozen spiritual gurus under investigation for crimes ranging from rape to land grabs, hawala dealing and cheating.