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COVID, poverty and right-wing populism drive India toward crisis

PV August 24, 2020

By B. Prasant in Kolkata Everywhere you go in the rural districts of north India, you find billboards springing up with garish colours and misspelt letterings – touches of haste clearly on show. They...

4 Minutes

World

India: what it needs and what it is getting

PV August 24, 2020

By Dipanjana Dasgupta Dey On December 6, 1992 India saw the demolition of the Mughal-era Babri Masjid mosque by fanatic Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Sawamsevak Sangha (RSS) cadres. The incident triggered a...

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World

Modi’s right-wing populism inflames China-India standoff

PV July 13, 2020

By B. Prasant The military confrontation and hand-to-hand scuffle that took place on June 15 in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh in eastern Kashmir was but one in a series of such confrontations that...

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World

India’s migrant marchers, heralds of the coming COVID surge

PV June 17, 2020

B. Prasant, PV correspondent in India The thin emaciated woman lay on her back by the side of the highway that leads away from Delhi towards Kolkata. Her arms akimbo, her knees folded together...