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Indian Bollywood actress Kubra Sait in Mumbai recently. Photo: AFP/STR
Jul 18,2018, 3:56
Sacred Games actor talks about her role as a transgender
By Chandni Doulatramani
A textile unit in Ludhiana, Punjab. Photo: KG Sharma
Jul 18,2018, 1:40
Delays processing new tax killing Punjab manufacturers
By K G Sharma
A nomadic family walks along the boulevard on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar in this file pic from September 2016. Photo: AFP/ Tauseef Mustafa
Jul 17,2018, 5:55
Eyes and ears of the Indian Army, Gujjars want their own regiment
By Arjun Sharma
Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to condemn the lynching and murder of an Indian Muslim in Mumbai on October 6, 2015. Photo: AFP/Inranil Mukerjee
Jul 17,2018, 4:34
India’s top court orders legislation to curb lynchings
By Asia Times staff
Clockwise from top left, lawyers Menaka Guruswamy, Mukul Rohatgi, Shyam Divan and Anand Grover. Photo: Agencies
Jul 17,2018, 1:38
The lawyers fighting to change India’s law on homosexuality
By Vishakha Saxena and Kriti Singh
Ramlal Bhil, 50, has tuberculosis and survives on leftover food given to him by his relatives. Rohit Jain
Jul 17,2018, 12:02
Disease, superstition and poverty plague India’s Bhil tribe
By Rohit Jain
File photo of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and now sacked Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti at a press conference in Srinagar. Photo: AFP
Jul 16,2018, 5:15
Fact-check: BJP claim that former Kashmir allies were biased falls flat
By Junaid Nabi Bazaz
Vivek Kaul
Jul 16,2018, 12:38
India’s minimum support price for crops useless without procurement
By Vivek Kaul
Ana Pararajasingham
Jul 16,2018, 12:07
Sri Lanka’s Chinese connection: beyond bribes and debts
By Ana Pararajasingham
Prakash Katoch
Jul 13,2018, 5:43
After Seychelles faux pas, India must learn from China
By Prakash Katoch
India's Union Minister Jayant Sinha delivers a speech at the 21st International Conference of The Future of Asia at a hotel in Tokyo on May 22, 2015. Photo: AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi
Jul 13,2018, 11:45
Army vets slam BJP minister for praising convicted murderers
By Asia Times staff
Subedar Gambhirshing Gurung and his fellow officers in 1911. Photo: The family of Subedar Gambhirsing Gurung
Jul 12,2018, 6:53
History: Britain, Nepal and some questionable treaties
By Tim I Gurung
Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufty (L), Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader Lal Krishna Advani and BJP President Amit Shah in the state assembly in Jammu on March 1, 2015. Photo: AFP/Tauseef Mustafa
Jul 12,2018, 5:47
Sensing a threat from the BJP, rivals come closer in Kashmir
By Majid Hyderi
Anirban Roy Choudhury (left) and his tattoo studio and performance venue Forever Poetry (right) in Kolkata, West Bengal. Chandni Doulatramani
Jul 12,2018, 5:39
How a poetry studio became home for tattooist’s body of work
By Chandni Doulatramani
Phula Bai was the first woman in the Bundelkhand region to demand that women be allowed to lease ponds for fish-farming. Photo: Saurabh Sharma
Jul 12,2018, 3:50
How Indian women smashed patriarchy in a backward region
By Saurabh Sharma
Shashi Tharoor
Jul 12,2018, 2:14
India’s social-media ‘lynch mobs’ pose growing threat
By Shashi Tharoor
Aritry Das
Jul 11,2018, 7:59
Govt must do more to counter India’s rape culture, not target critics
By Aritry Das
A man looks for his name on the first draft of the National Register of Citizens in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam on January 1, 2018. Around 13 million people in Assam woke up to uncertainty on that day after the release of an official registry with names of only 19m of the state's over 32 million residents. Photo: AFP
Jul 11,2018, 2:20
Fear of being classed a ‘foreigner’ spurring suicides in Assam
By Pratyush Deep
Indian Gujarat State Chief Minister and Bhartiya Janta Party's Prime Ministerial Candidate, Narendra Modi (L), Reliance Industries CMD and Chairman of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Board (PDPU), Mukesh Ambani (R), British Petroleum Group's Chief Executive, Bob Dudley (2L) and Gujarat state energy and petrochemicals minister, Saurabh Patel (2R) look on during the 3rd convocation of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in Gandhinagar, around 30 AFP PHOTO/ Sam PANTHAKY / AFP PHOTO / SAM PANTHAKY
Jul 10,2018, 6:19
Private university’s ‘Eminence’ tag sparks major debate
By Asia Times staff
Muntaha Amin
Jul 09,2018, 2:31
Why the BJP wants to weaken an Indian university
By Muntaha Amin
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