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On his small organic farm in Gujarat, the home state of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Lakhanbhai Musafir flings out his arm in disgust in the direction of the Statue [...]

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 How India's most desperate state transformed itself to become a model for the rest of the country. For centuries, it seems, the northern Indian state of Bihar [...]

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 This week India's Parliament will begin what promises to be its most pointless debate in history--though one not lacking for histrionics--as its members take […]

Byline: Jason Overdorf; With Anita Kirpalani in New York Midway through Vishal Bhardwaj's 2009 movie Kaminey (Scoundrels), the hero is captured by thugs looking to recover $2 million in stolen [...]

Byline: Sharon Begley; With Daniel Stone in Washington, Melinda Liu in Beijing, and Jason Overdorf in Delhi The 192 countries flocking to Copenhagen next month wonCOt reach consensus on climate [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Experts estimate that corruption in India indirectly kills more than 8,000 people a day by diverting money from food programs into the pockets of crooked officials. Now [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Even as India's government is pouring $5abillion into a scheme to ease rural unemployment, its plan may be contributing to an inflationary spiral that's making the cost [...]

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 and Sudip Mazumdar He may be shy, but his 100-day plan for India is strikingly bold. For much of the past 15 years, Indian politics were so [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf; With Sudip Mazumdar in Kolkata New rules have exposed just how many thieves and murderers sit in India's Parliament. Indian members of Parliament went home last week [...]

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: Jason Overdorf India turns to the private sector for security New Delhi can't provide. India's private-security industry has exploded in recent years, thanks to the country's longstanding terrorism problem [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf and Sudip Mazumdar India avoids lashing out at Pakistan and its own Muslims after the Mumbai attacks. Most people probably expected the Nov. 26 terrorist attacks on [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf and George Wehrfritz Terrorism hasn't yet derailed India's growth story. You couldn't strike a blow closer to the heart of Indian finance. Mumbai's downtown waterfront--the setting of [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Upcoming elections in India could help usher an even more nationalist BJP back into power. It's election season in India, and that's bad news for the hapless [...]

Byline: George Wehrfritz and Adam B. Kushner; With Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore and Jason Overdorf in New Delhi Corporate big spenders may have to fold as the credit crisis exposes [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf India may now be the world leader in deploying satellites that assist practical work on the ground. Nobody would mistake India for a leader in outer space. [...]

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: Mary Hennock, Adam B. Kushner and Jason Overdorf; With Akiko Kashiwagi in TokyoWith in Tokyo As China tries to catch up to the United States and Russia, its regional [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf In a drive to remain top table in New Delhi's fast-growing fine-dining scene, in August the Taj Mahal Hotel opened its second new restaurant in as many [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf India's vast plan to build a bevy of new schools will fix only half the problem: quantity, not quality. On the sprawling campus of Delhi University, the [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf For some time now, Indian firms have been growing in competitiveness; companies like Tata, Reliance, and the Aditya Birla Group now rival giant Western multinationals like General [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf Delhi's bureaucrats bicker over cholera and the role of city drains and state sewers. India scores 120 on the green index and especially poorly in sanitation. If [...]

Byline: Jason Overdorf As India gets more wealthy, arranged marriage is giving way to more love weddings, and divorces. Not long ago, 19-year-old Sreeja Konidela returned home to Hyderabad from [...]

Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jason Overdorf; With Christopher Flavelle, Ana Elena Azpurua and John Sparks in New York The world could be one crop failure away from an actual food [...]

Byline: Rana Foroohar ; Jason Overdorf ; Owen Matthews ; Karin Rives ; Katie Baker It's no secret that high oil prices have moved big money, some $3 trillion, from [...]

Byline: Keith Naughton; With Jason Overdorf, Patrick Crowley, William Underhill, Mary Hennock, Stefan Theil and Akiko Kashiwagi Poor countries are getting rich, gas costs are rising and our planet is [...]