Articles
Roysten Abel’s multi-sensory The Kitchen play gets the audience involved
The Indian theatre director Royston Abel's new production, The Kitchen, explores the concepts of cooking and cosmic truths through the story of a couple and 100kg of pudding.
Acid attacks on women in India reflect society’s attitudes
When a man throws acid on a woman, his intention is to subjugate her and show her who is in charge, writes Amrit Dhillon.
Can India’s common man deliver on his promises?
The popular longing for clean government in India has been given wings, and nothing will ever be the same again
Hindi film subtitles translate into successful literacy project for India
With the simple addition of subtitles to Bollywood films, barely literate Indians are instinctively attempting to read as they watch their favourite movies on television.
Wheels are turning with New Delhi’s women taxi drivers
Female taxi drivers in New Delhi are providing safe rides to female passengers and, in the process, revolutionising the face of transport.
‘No, minister’: the phrase you might start hearing in India
India's Supreme Court tells civil servants they need no longer fear arbitrary transfer if they block ministerial corruption.
It is high time India tackled the ‘evil’ of the caste system
India's caste system is a vast systematic violation of the human rights of tens of millions of citizens.
Confronting emotions
After a successful, emotional run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, the powerful production of Yael Farber's Nirbhaya prepares to be staged in India.
India’s poor weep at the escalating price of onions
The price of onions is soaring in India, to the cost of the poorest members of society
New Indian land law won't restore fragile confidence
With it's new Land Acquisition Bill, the Indian government has dramatically changed the balance - to the detriment of the country's industrialisation.
Ship of Theseus carries message about organ donation
The art-house film Ship of Theseus hopes to spread awareness about organ donation. We talk to the filmmaker Kiran Rao and her husband, the actor Aamir Khan, who have pledged to donate their organs
India's poverty data cheers politicians, but not the poor
Declining rates of poverty in India reflect a faulty definition of poverty rather than more poor families being able to make ends meet
Women take on Shah Rukh Khan for promoting skin-lightening cream
In India, a country with a strong bias towards fair skin, a women's group has taken on the Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan for endorsing a skin-lightening cream
Natural disasters in India worsened by inefficient officials
Corruption and inept management by the political class is a deadly affliction for the people of India.
Stage play about India gang rape meant to 'provoke and inspire'
The South African director Yael Farber says her play Nirbhaya, based on the gang rape of a Delhi student, is a call for lasting change.
