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Byline: Jason Overdorf In mid-January, when New Delhi police arrested Sunil Rastogi for sex crimes against underage girls, the 38-year-old father of five made a horrifying confession: He claimed to [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf On November 8, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a surprise recall of more than 80 percent of the country's cash in circulation, his supporters hailed [...]

The Indian government is engaged in an effort to eradicate slums in Delhi, and in the process brings into question the methods used to evict the poor inhabitants, and the near total lack of recompense given them.

WHEN he opened the Bison Boxing Club, in Beijing, Li Zhu, a thirty-five-year-old entrepreneur, planned to become China's first fight promoter. Chinese athletes were notoriously ill paid, so it would [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf When a gay professor at one of India's most prestigious universities was found dead two months after vigilantes barged into his house with a video camera and [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Outside the 150-year-old Tangra Slaughter House in Kolkata, India, a line of cows stretches down the lane alongside the arched, colonial-style building. There are no fixed prices [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Kurapati Nagaraju is one of India's wealthiest astrologers. He's also very lucky. Several months ago, two gunmen on motorcycles skidded to a halt near his house, pumped [...]

New legislation being proposed by the Congress party would require private corporations to reserve 52% of all jobs for low-caste Indians. The possible effect of the legislation on specific companies is discussed. According to business persons, the new law will only promote the caste system.

The impact of question paper leakage on the parents and the students who have studied hard is evaluated. The role of the coaching institutions, and the criminals who want to make cash by leaking the question papers and the consequent attitude towards Indian education system's ability to function as a meritocracy are analyzed.

The Italian born president of India's Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi started her national election campaign with a strident assault on the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Some of the facts, experiences and works of Sonia Gandhi as a politician is presented.

The role of caste and crime in the murky political scenario of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is studied. A close look is taken at the tactics employed by Chief Minister Mayawati in the arrest of state legislator and member of the high Rajput caste, Raghuraj Pratap Singh. The allegations made against Singh and events leading up to his final arrest are discussed.

This article discusses the situation of gays in India. The Indian penal code prohibits 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature' thus causing India's estimated 50 million gay men to live in fear of harassment and hampering the fight against Aids.

The effect of various factors such as Maoist insurgency, September 11 attacks, hijack of an Indian Airlines flight from Katmandu airport in December 1999 on NepalEs tourism sector has been described. The steps taken by NepalEs tourism board to attract tourists have been mentioned.

Byline: Jason Overdorf For years the rural, densly populated Indian state of Bihar has been synonymous with epic dysfunction. Once the seat of one of the world's most glorious empires, [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf and Sudip Mazumdar Most prime ministers in India spend their first 100 days struggling just to keep their jobs. But Manmohan Singh's surprisingly deci-sive victory last month [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Isolated from world trends, India's aspiring middle will help it grow through the credit storm. Though it may not look it on the ground at times, India [...]

Byline: Mary Hennock, Adam B. Kushner and Jason Overdorf; With Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo China is catching up to the U.S. and Russia. And its neighbors in the region are [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Even superheroes aren't safe from job outsourcing. Next month Marvel Comics will launch 'Spider-Man India,' the first ethnic adaptation of the popular comic-book series. Peter Parker of [...]

Boxing, karaoke, prostitution-one-stop shopping in the new China When he opened the Bison Boxing Club, in Beijing, Li Zhu, a thirty- five-year-old entrepreneur, planned to become China's first fight promoter. [...]

Prashant Panjiar, a photojournalist was asked by Penguin India to compile a photo album of pictures from 1858 to the present. Prashant perfects his art by not only compiling the photos but also meeting the photographers, writers and journalists.

It is estimated that every year some 200,000 rural migrant labourers move to Delhi, the capital city of India. The negative and positive attitudes of these labourers with regard to their survival, and their children's growth amidst the existing adverse and favorable conditions are presented.

Soe Myint, a Burmese activist living in India, hijacked a Thai Airways aircraft 12 years ago and was not prosecuted until now. This article explains the terrorist's motives and India's failure to act against him.

The author describes his experiences at the Bison Club, a boxing, karaoke and prostitution club in Beijing, China. As a foreigner, he was interested in the Chinese culture and practiced speaking Chinese while studying boxing. The ups and downs of the club are described, involving brawling locals, rival gangs, police crackdowns and security guards in motorcycle helmets.

The article talks about "Wild Wild Country," a documentary series about America's encounter with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. It states that filmmaker brothers Maclean and Chapman Way have aimed to do more than investigate Rajneeshis' alleged crimes like the largest immigration fraud in American history and the largest mass poisoning.

The article focuses on the response towards the memoir of actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, which he had later withdrawn. It discusses his altercation with his ex-girlfriends actresses Sunita Rajwar and Niharika Singh, who accused him of disrespecting and misrepresenting her character in the book. Siddiqui discusses how it was not his intention to offend someone and he only made the memoir after being approached by co-author Rituparna Chatterjee.

Announces that Marvel Comics will release "Spider-Man India." Translation of Western names in the comic to Hindi names; Plans for the setting to be steeped in Hindu mysticism; Plans to release the version in the United States as well.