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Soutik Biswas

Soutik Biswas

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Antibiotics and the world's biggest gathering in India

What does the biggest gathering of humanity on Earth have to do with antibiotics? Quite a bit, evidently. Researchers from US-based institutes,...

06.09.2023 60

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The untold story of India partition airlift

In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing...

14.08.2023 60

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Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis

What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world? On 20 July, India banned exports...

03.08.2023 300

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Why prosperity can't break India's dowry curse

As education and job opportunities for men in India have improved over the decades, the prevalence of dowry has increased, a new study has found. ...

29.05.2023 5

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How the fight to ban burning of widows in India was won

In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow...

24.04.2023 100

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How one of India's most oppressed drafted its constitution

At the end of the final reading of India's constitution on 25 November 1949, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen and the undisputed...

11.04.2023 50

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Why do so many Indians love surveillance?

In mid-February, a daily wage worker died in a hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, days after he was picked up by the police in...

01.04.2023 30

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When India's top comedian became a food delivery rider

This video can not be played The Zomato, Swiggy riders risking their lives to deliver food In Zwigato, a new film, India's best-known comedian Kapil...

25.03.2023 10

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Will Adani's $100bn loss hit India's green energy dreams?

Two years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ambitious plans to make India a green energy colossus. He pledged cutting emissions to...

21.02.2023 2

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How an Indian woman tracked down her daughter's 'dead' rapist

Last year a woman in India's northern state of Bihar was told her daughter's rapist had died and the case against him closed. She questioned the claim...

13.02.2023 300

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Why internet growth has stalled in India

With more than a billion users, India boasts the world's second largest mobile phone market. Yet, internet growth in this vast market appears to have...

24.01.2023 70

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Is India seeing a decline in violence?

Violence has moved to the "centre stage of Indian public life", Thomas Blom Hansen, an anthropologist at Stanford University, argued two years ago. ...

17.01.2023 200

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