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How Methanol Poisons

C&EN
September 25, 2024

How a Youtuber duped
Indians into the
Russia-Ukraine war

Defector
May 8, 2024

Climate change fuels proliferation

of brain-eating amoeba

National Geographic
September 3, 2024

India's message to Modi:

Focus on Economic Justice

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The Globe and Mail
June 12, 2024

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

Undark
September 20, 2019

Policies mandated by multilateral institutions are contributing
to India's Covid catastrophe

Scientific American
August 22, 2021

Indians are Seeking Work

in War Zones

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Foreign Policy
November 18, 2024

In rural India, extreme
Covid vaccine hesitancy

Undark
April 26, 2022

How a brutal mafia enforcer
became a deadly serious
marathoner

Narratively
August 29, 2018

The Mumbai couple suing
for their right to die

JSTOR Daily
July 4, 2018

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

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Women's Advancement Deeply
March 27, 2018

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

The Guardian
April 19, 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

Prisoners of unconscienced

The Hindu Business Line
January 11, 2018

India: no country
for transgender women

South China Morning Post
July 8, 2018

Hamid Ansari's conviction:
An Indo-Pak love story
gone wrong

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The Quint
December 18, 2018

How India fails
its rape survivors

World Politics Review
September 24, 2019

The Indian women
consulting with astrologers
to time their childbirths

VICE
November 1, 2017

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

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Direct Relief
May 3, 2020

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

OneZero
January 23, 2020

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

Quanta
June 23, 2020

How to smuggle
a bathtub into prison

The Hindu Business Line
January 20, 2018

The doctors navigating
Covid-19 with no internet

The British Medical Journal
April 7, 2020

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

The Guardian
September 6, 2017

How COVID increased
childhood obesity in India

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Think Global Health
May 28, 2024

Inside the struggling
effort to bank the indigenous
women of Mumbai

Pacific Standard
August 29, 2018

Exploring Harran,
a Mesopotamian town in Turkey

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The Hindu Business Line
August 23, 2019

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

The Wire
April 4, 2020

A parched India city holds lessons
for fighting climate change

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Bluedot Living
May 22, 2024

Internet restrictions
during the Covid-19
pandemic can be fatal

CNN
April 20, 2020

How Maharashtra is
grappling with the practice
of Kathimod Talaq

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The Quint
September 26, 2017

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

Leaps
July 7, 2020

In rural India, stricken by
pandemic, necessity of invention
fills in for the state

Subadra's grandson, Suresh, points to the spot where the women's bodies were discovered in

The Fuller Project
February 1, 2022

The nose knows: dogs are
being trained to detect
the coronavirus

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Upworthy Science
August 4, 2021

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

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Undark
May 2, 2021

Obesity has become too big a
problem for India to ignore

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Nikkei Asia Review
June 14, 2024

Can an "old school" vaccine
address global inequities in
Covid-19 vaccination?

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Leaps
April 5, 2022

Early puberty cases in girls
have surged during Covid

The Washington Post
March 28, 2022

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

Atlas Obscura
July 26, 2018

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

Ozy
November 7, 2017

The land of ice,
fire and literature

GOOD
May 18, 2018

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

The New Arab
May 12, 2020

Social distancing is not
an option for India's poor

Slate
March 24, 2020

How Extreme Heat Is Hurting

People in India’s Slums

Nonprofit Quarterly
December 12, 2024

Mumbai's Microforests,

a Model for California

Kneedeep Times
September 18, 2024

The Lonely Crusade Against Caste

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Nieman Reports
December 5, 2024

The Calculated 'Luck' of
Pradeep Sharma: How he
evaded the law all this while

The Quint
March 21, 2024

How Rising Temperatures

May Affect Future Elections

Nonprofit Quarterly
August 1, 2024

Mysterious deaths of mother,
daughter expose India’s
neglect of rural healthcare

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The Wire x The Fuller Project
November 20, 2021

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

The Guardian
February 26, 2018

Pakistani man fights
to return to his
Indian family

Al Jazeera
May 21, 2018

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

Undark
Decmeber 12, 2019

Manodhairya: a
landmark scheme with
flawed execution

The Hindu
June 11, 2017

The battle against virginity tests
in this Indian community

The Lily
January 26, 2018

The 'Period Huts' of India

The Juggernaut
April 8, 2019

The rebirth of
Hiware Bazar

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Grist x FERN
September 26, 2022

The fight to end forced
sterilization of girls
with disabilities

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Women's Advancement Deeply
December 19, 2017

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Winter 2019

Can portable schools
in India keep kids
off streets?

Pacific Standard
May 24, 2018

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

Undark
April 4, 2020

The hidden struggles
of India's war widows

Women's Advancement Deeply
June 22, 2018

Indian garbage
collectors battle
coronavirus unarmed

Foreign Policy
April 9, 2020

Why we don't have more
Covid-19 vaccines for
animals

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Upworthy Science
August 16, 2022

Waterborne democracy
for rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Spring 2022

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

National Geographic
May 22, 2021

A lack of Covid-19 genomes
could prolong the pandemic

Quanta Magazine
June 28, 2021

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

ZORA
September 20, 2019

The Toll of Extreme Heat on India's Laborers

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Think Global Health
July 9, 2024

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