Public campaign prevents release of GM eggplant
India wants to follow in the footsteps of China, popping miracle pills to raise the country up to export-led superstardom. What Dionne Bunsha, Maureen Nandini Mitra and Jayati Ghosh discover is a little less uplifting.
India’s textile industry is changing – and the workers are not the beneficiaries. Dionne Bunsha reports.
Why boys are a pain for a Mumbai girl on the move. Interview in India by Dionne Bunsha.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.