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For India's caste-based
sewer cleaners, an
uncertain robot rescue

Undark
September 20, 2019

Absolute hell: the toxic
outpost where Mumbai's
poorest are 'sent to die'

The Guardian
February 26, 2018

Internet restrictions
during the Covid-19
pandemic can be fatal

CNN
April 20, 2020

How to smuggle
a bathtub into prison
 

The Hindu Business Line
January 20, 2018

How a village in India reached 100% vaccination in the face of misinformation and hesitancy

National Geographic
May 22, 2021

Can an AI fact-checker
solve India's 
fake news problem?

Undark
Decmeber 12, 2019

The Mumbai couple
suing for their 
right to die

JSTOR Daily
July 4, 2018

In a second wave, 
Covid finds India's
rural villages vulnerable

Undark
May 2, 2021

Government threatens 
Kashmir's doctors with 'strict
action' for media leaks

The Wire
April 4, 2020

Pakistani man fights
to return to his
Indian family

Al Jazeera
May 21, 2018

Why South Asia's
Covid-19 numbers are 
so low (for now)

Quanta
June 23, 2020

The great Indian internet
shutdown is the troubling
future of protest control

OneZero
January 23, 2020

Nowhere safe for 'dirty'
money after sex workers'
bank closes in Mumbai

Women's Advancement Deeply
March 27, 2018

The land of ice, 
fire and literature
 

GOOD
May 18, 2018

How tech is helping
fight maternal and neonatal
deaths in rural India

ZORA
September 20, 2019

Filthy lucre: Scavenging 
grime and sewage for gold
on Mumbai's streets

The Guardian
April 19, 2018

The doctors
navigating Covid-19
with no internet

The British Medical Journal
April 7, 2020

Manodhairya: a 
landmark scheme with
flawed execution

The Hindu
June 11, 2017

'It's better to die here':
why don't Mumbaikars 
leave dangerous buildings?

The Guardian
September 6,  2017

The battle against
virginity tests in this
Indian community

The Lily 
January 26, 2018

India's Muslims 
are terrified of
being deported

Foreign Policy
Februrary 21, 2020

Over 11,000 years old
Göbekli Tepe shows the artistic genius of early humans

Financial Express
November 26, 2019

The 'Period Huts'
of India
 

The Juggernaut
April 8, 2019

Indian garbage 
collectors battle 
coronavirus unarmed
 

Foreign Policy
April 9, 2020

Prisoners of
unconscienced
 

The Hindu Business Line
January 11, 2018

Inside the struggling 
effort to bank the indigenous
women of Mumbai

Pacific Standard
August 29, 2018

Oxygen Express trains
deliver supplies as India
hit by Covid-19 surge

New Scientist
April 26, 2021

India: no country
for transgender women
 

South China Morning Post
July 8, 2018

Social distancing 
is not an option 
for India's poor

Slate
March 24, 2020

The fight to end forced
sterilization of girls
with disabilities

Women's Advancement Deeply
December 19, 2017

Why farmers in India
are taking their own 
lives - and how to stop it

Ozy
November 7, 2017

"Disinfection tunnels" are popping
up around the world, fuelled 
by misinformation and fear 

Leaps
July 7, 2020

India's first women qazis
are working to challenge
entrenched gender norms

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Winter 2019

How India fails
its rape survivors
 

World Politics Review
September 24, 2019

India's coronavirus response
ignores its slumdwellers, 
all 65 million of them

The New Arab
May 12, 2020

Can portable schools 
in India keep kids
off streets?

Pacific Standard
May 24, 2018

The Indian women 
consulting with astrologers
to time their childbirths

VICE
November 1, 2017

Why farmers in India
are taking their own 
lives - and how to stop it

Ozy
November 7, 2017

Covid-19 threatens
to overwhelm India's
health care system

Undark
April 4, 2020

The million women
working on India's
Covid-19 frontlines

Direct Relief
May 3, 2020

How Maharashtra is
grappling with the practice
of Kathimod Talaq

The Quint
September 26, 2017

The hidden struggles
of India's war widows
 

Women's Advancement Deeply
June 22, 2018

Where the Mughal
Empress was laid to rest 
before the Taj Mahal

Atlas Obscura
July 26, 2018