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Singing to read

BRIJ KOTHARI
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Same Language Subtitling on Bollywood film songs, a solution for India’s illiteracy problems.


Disappearing deity

DEBBY NG
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India, with half the world’s population of wild tigers, sees red over China’s plans to reopen the trade in tiger parts.


Hanuman takes on Spidey

CLARISSA TAN

A string of animated films starring Hindu gods proves a hit with Indian children and their parents.


Organised crime

LEE HAN SHIH

India is reeling from the discovery of a network of brokers and health workers dealing in kidneys.


Modern-day Sitas burn to death

DAN-CHYI CHUA

Twelve women burn to death per hour on average in India. Where does one begin to describe the terrible wrongs suffered by the country’s women?


India's silent gender cleansing

RITA BANERJI
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In December 2006, Rita Banerji began a campaign on the photo-sharing site Flickr. Called 50 Million Missing, it has one important message. Over the last 100 years, 50 million women have been systematically eliminated from the country's population.


India's silent gender cleansing (Part 2 of 2)

RITA BANERJI

The Case of Roopa

Roopa is a young married woman whose in-laws and husband tried to kill her by forcing her to drink acid, when her parents refused to pay them dowry.


An eye for an eye makes the world blind

HARESH RAMCHANDANI

The auction of Gandhi's possessions creates conflict, running counter to the spirit of the late man.


The Auntienet: Matrimony at your fingertips

KAVITA PILLAY

India’s practice of arranging marriages is pairing up happily with the World Wide Web. 


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