꼬리표: Indias
From India’s highs to Thailand’s lows, Asia’s weather is hitting extremes
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The final days of April saw further unbearable temperatures recorded in India and Pakistan. Temperatures peaked at 49C in Jacobabad, Pakistan on 30 4 월, with a high of 47.2C observed in Banda, 인도. The Indian Mete...
‘The tuber man of Kerala’ on a quest to champion India’s rare and indigenous crops
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Known as “the tuber man of Kerala”, Shaji NM has travelled throughout India over the past two decades, sometimes inspecting bushes in tribal villages, at other times studying the ground of forests closer to home among...
‘The knowledge of our elders’: India’s living root bridges submitted to Unesco
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India’s famous living bridges – the roots of trees coaxed and stretched into the form of a suspension bridge over a river – have been submitted to Unesco’s tentative list for the coveted world heritage site status. NS...
‘Women of the wild’: the platform giving India’s nature experts a voice
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“I wish these things wouldn’t happen to anyone,” says Akanksha Sood Singh, a wildlife film-maker based in Delhi. “But if it has happened, this is a safe space for women to come and to share their experiences.” The saf...
India’s biggest state begins voting in key test of Narendra Modi popularity
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India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has begun voting in the first of a series of local elections that will be a test of the popularity of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his ruling party. With a populat...
India’s coronavirus death toll passes 500,000
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India’s official death toll from Covid-19 has passed 500,000, even as many experts flag underreporting of cases across the country. The daily update from the country’s federal health ministry on Friday showed the numb...
‘Depth of tradition’: Dior haute couture show celebrates India’s art and embroidery
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A Dior haute couture show in the gardens of the Musée Rodin is as Parisian as fashion gets. But this season, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri’s heart was in India. “There is an idea that Indian embroidery is something che...
Love jihad: India’s lethal religious conspiracy theory – video
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The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that h...
'자유롭다': 트랜스젠더 남성이 운영하는 인도 최초의 미용실
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새로운 La Beauté에 나열된 뷰티 트리트먼트 & 스타일 살롱은 Ghaziabad의 교통 체증 Dilshad Extension 지역에 점재하는 12개 정도의 다른 응접실에서 제공하는 것과 거의 동일합니다., 17 마일 (28km) ...
India’s ‘pencil village’ counts the cost of Covid school closures
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School closures in India during the pandemic have left their mark on more than the children who have seen delays to their learning. In one Kashmiri village the impact has been catastrophic on employment. Pick up a pen...
India’s apple farmers count cost of climate crisis as snow decimates crops
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The homegrown apple is in danger of becoming a rarity in India, as farmers have lost up to half their harvest this year, with predictions that the country’s main orchards could soon be all but wiped out. Early snowfal...
India’s farmers have won – but this doesn’t mean Modi is softening
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It is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime minister’s previous frightening acts of decisiveness have included announcing a comp...
Is India’s pledge of net zero by 2070 an ambitious target – or worthless words?
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It was the headline-grabbing announcement of the first day of Cop26: India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, pledging his country would go net zero by 2070. The declaration proved divisive. Some in the British press we...
India’s Christians living in fear as claims of ‘forced conversions’ swirl
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It was a stifling July afternoon when the crowd moved into the small district of Lakholi, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and gathered outside the house of Tamesh War Sahu. Sahu, a 55-year-old volunteer with the ...
Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who ‘lived by her principles’ among India’s poor
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At the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a US-born, white sociologist whom many local people saw as one of their own. Most of the m...
Why Kerala is still in the grip of India’s second wave of Covid
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As Covid-19 swept through India last year, there was one state that was always seen to stand out in its handling of the pandemic. The “Kerala model” became a byword for success in containing the virus, named after a s...