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Caste cauldron
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 29/02/2016
» The Narendra Modi government is in a quandary over how to respond to the demands of the Jats, a Hindu caste numbering 80 million in nine states in northern and northwestern India, following more than a week of deadly riots.
Mission to India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha can expect a warm welcome when he arrives in India on Thursday, but no endorsement, implicit or explicit, of the military regime he heads.
The parent trap
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 25/07/2016
» Lalchand Rankor has fear and apprehension writ large on his face. Sitting on an iron cot in his two-storey house built on a 20-square-metre lot, he answers a visitor's questions in monosyllables or murmurs.
Faith, fighting and fakery
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 03/07/2017
» It was a chance encounter with Som (last name withheld) that raised the hackles of authorities at a Sikh regiment training centre of the Indian army in Ramgarh, a city in the northeastern state of Jharkhand.
Nowhere people
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 16/10/2017
» Noor Fatima would prefer jumping into the Yamuna River to being deported to her village in Rakhine province of Myanmar.
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.
One India, one election
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 19/02/2018
» After introducing a single nationwide Goods and Services Tax in India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now floating the idea of a single election day for the entire country.
Lower castes growing more assertive in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 07/05/2018
» Sanjay Jatav believes he has won an important battle in the long war against caste-based discrimination in India.
Indian 'ghost schools' expose failures of state system
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/05/2018
» Perched on a hill and painted snow white, the government primary school in Shuklapur, a small hamlet on the outskirts of Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state, looks majestic.
Right-to-die debate
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/01/2019
» Anamika Mishra has been waiting for death for over a decade, saying her health is beyond redemption.