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  • Monday, 30 March, 2020
    Amy Kazmin
    Staying home is a luxury many Indians cannot afford

    Narendra Modi failed to say how millions of employees — mainly rural migrants — were to get by

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    Indian coronavirus lockdown triggers exodus to rural areas 

    Migrant workers head home in battle to survive after losing jobs 

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
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    India’s sudden lockdown threatens food supply chains

    Curfew on nation’s 1.4bn people leads to severe disruptions, hardship and widespread confusion

  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
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    India’s migrant workers flee cities and threaten countryside

    Slow response could turn coronavirus outbreak into humanitarian crisis

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
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    Islamist extremists eye India as recruiting ground

    Modi’s Hindu nationalism could push alienated Muslims into violence, warn analysts

  • Sunday, 22 March, 2020
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    India goes into lockdown as coronavirus spreads

    Restrictions applied to most of the country after one-day voluntary curfew

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
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    Narendra Modi urges people to stay home as disease threatens millions in congested cities

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    India executes men convicted of Delhi bus rape

    Hangings are culmination of relentless legal battle by victim’s mother

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    Modi is taking India down a dangerous path

    This week’s rioting in Delhi highlights the risks to secular democracy

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  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    India riots: ‘We were attacked because we are Muslim’

    New Delhi residents recount night of terror after sectarian riots claim dozens of lives

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
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    Modi woos world leaders in city haunted by violence

    Ahmedabad, central to the life of Gandhi, was the location of deadly sectarian riots

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
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    Paramilitary police deployed in New Delhi after riots

    Modi calls for calm in first public acknowledgment of violence that has left at least 20 dead

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    Indian politics & policy
    New Delhi religious riots kill 17 in two days of violence

    Clashes over citizenship law come as Donald Trump praises India during two-day visit

  • Monday, 10 February, 2020
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    Sedition accusations in India take a dramatic turn

    A school skit on a new citizenship law has been the target of a police investigation

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
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    Modi fights back over Indian citizenship bill with propaganda blitz

    BJP government looks to take charge of narrative after weeks of protests

  • Sunday, 26 January, 2020
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    Modi’s culture war storms India’s elite universities

    The country’s hopes of transforming itself into a knowledge economy are under threat

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    Indian politics & policy
    Bollywood turns on Modi after protests at citizenship law

    Contentious legislation prompts rare display of outrage from film stars and actors

  • Sunday, 12 January, 2020
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    Nehru’s idea of India is under attack

    Hindus and Muslims have been brothers who could be violently estranged, but never properly foreign

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
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    India’s ideological war bursts on to a Delhi campus

    University protests show students are willing to fight for secularism

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
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    Indian authorities accused of targeting Muslims in Uttar Pradesh

    Citizenship law protests spur fierce crackdown in country’s most populous state

  • Sunday, 5 January, 2020
    Nationalist mob attacks secular university in Delhi

    Violence at leading institution latest flashpoint over Narendra Modi’s citizenship bill

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