India operates the world’s largest free school lunch programme in an effort to combat childhood malnutrition, but the lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus has left many without a meal

The deadly neglect of India’s rural communities must end, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Handwashing can prevent many diseases, if you have easy access to soap and water. Some three billion people don’t.

India is looking at the world’s largest statelessness crisis. Nilanjana Bhowmick asks, have we learned nothing from the ongoing dispossession of Rohingya Muslims?

Low-paid and often working without proper protection, these women are fighting to be recognized.

The coronavirus pandemic has left many of India’s poor without jobs, food, or a way to get home.

Only a fifth of all households in this nation of 1.3 billion have piped running water. That makes frequent handwashing a challenge.

Rajendra Prasad Singh, a right-to-information (RTI) activist from the East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar, had exposed several cases of fraud and corruption in government welfare schemes at the village council level. On 19 June 2018, Singh was shot dead by sharpshooters close to the…

On 24 March 2018 at 8.55 a.m., security cameras picked up a chilling, almost Bollywoodesque scene playing out on the near-empty streets of Bhind, a small town in Madhya Pradesh, central India. In the blue-tinged footage, a huge dump truck can be seen taking a wide turn on an empty street, swerving s…

Nilanjana Bhowmick observes tolerance in India’s most holy city.

New Delhi wants people to prove their citizenship. But Indian women are the demographic least likely to possess paperwork.

Pavan Sukhdev is co-winner of this year’s prestigious Tyler Prize — the ‘Nobel for environment’ — for pioneering the valuing of natural capital

Sukhdev wins the prestigious prize for ‘revolutionising how decision-makers would come to view the natural world’.

The women are an antithesis to Modi and his ministers, their hatred, their misogyny, their disrespect for the Indian Constitution and their Islamophobia

Women are leading protests against Modi’s government in India — and it’s not the first time women have been at the forefront of political activism. Here’s the history.

On December 19, Sadaf Jafar, a well-known social and political activist in Lucknow and a teacher, was protesting against the National Register of Citizens and Citizenship (Amendment) Act in a Lucknow neighborhood

Nilanjana Bhowmick heralds India’s most overshadowed environmentalists: waste-pickers

Ongoing countrywide protests are rooted in a battle for India’s secular values, argues Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath, who has served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 2017, has overseen a brutal crackdown on protesters.

Deepak Kabir was reportedly assaulted by half a dozen police officers who hit him with batons and rifle butts for trying to speak up for the arrested protesters.

I have never attended protest gatherings. But on Sunday evening I was ready to because a time comes when every citizen has to rise up and protest in one voice, or be silenced forever.

Geeta Luthra and her team, who are representing MJ Akbar in his defamation case against Priya Ramani, reportedly mocked Ghazala Wahab when she testified against Akbar and detailed the harassment she faced at his hands. Ironically, during the early days of the trial, Luthra had protested against murm…

Since a horrifying assault shocked the nation, women there have pressed for more protection from harassment and abuse in public spaces.

After a decade since the Right to Education Act was passed, experts from the field assess its key achievements and shortcomings

Are women in India dropping off the workforce because of bullying and bias? Speaking up about non-sexual harassment at work should be the most logical next step for the MeToo movement in India, and all over the world.

Free, compulsory school has been a right for children in India since 2009. So why are so many young women still not getting an education?

If Modi wins a second mandate, it doesn’t mean that our democracy is irrevocably broken. If he doesn’t, it unfortunately won’t mean the converse is true – that our democracy is safe.

In Bundelkhand, all villages are segregated into upper cast and lower caste sections

The unpaved road leads to a haphazard colony of mostly makeshift and a few pucca houses in Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region.

In the village of Deora in Jhansi district in Bundelkhand, Suman Devi’s family got money to build a toilet. But the money could not even cover the cost of a toilet pan

Research centre in the Himalayan foothills under scrutiny after revelation that it trained North Korean scientists.

This article was first published in The Long View 2016. Please share your thoughts here and join the conversation on social media with #longview2016. On a sultry weekday afternoon, 16-year-old Bhavna…