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Gully Culture

For one aspiring rapper from Mumbai’s biggest slum, failure is not an option

by Akanksha Singh

Dharavi is Asia’s second largest slum. About one million people live in just over about a...

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A 2017 study revealed that Indian call center workers were often the target of racial abuse from US clients. The report mentioned the trauma...

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Howling for Rishikesh

Inspired by Ginsberg, a writer visits India’s meditation capital

by Akanksha Singh

Rishikesh is many things to many people. It is where the Ganges is, in some sense,...

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“Binya liked being on her own, and sometimes she allowed the cows to lead her into...”

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All That Glitters

The secret life of Indian jewelry

by Akanksha Singh

The air smells singed and the exposed brick walls are black with grime. The room on...

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Sabarmati Ashram, located on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, was Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite place. It was from the ashram...

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In India’s 2014 election, then-candidate Narendra Modi campaigned at dozens of rallies simultaneously by appearing as a 3‑D holographic image. He won the election...

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In the Lower Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh, the northeastern-most state of India, election pollsters have to walk between 6 and 28 miles...

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“I am a Mistress of Spices. I can work the others too. Mineral, metal, earth and...”

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“I look nothing like my mother,” says Indian poet Nupur Saraswat in her spoken word video Twisted And Mine. “My hair, twisting like a pig’s tail at...

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India withdrew from the 1950 World Cup in Brazil because its players weren’t allowed to play barefoot. Well, that was the rumor—one which has...

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A Rummy Way to Make Whiskey

Inside the Indian whiskey industry

by Nikhil Merchant

As I sit by strewn Christmas lights and baubles, swiveling my Glenfarclas nosing glass with the...

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