View from India (New Internationalist Column)

In India, a growing number of women are going against the stream and rejecting gendered expectations, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the colossal failure of governance that has led to needless deaths on a massive scale.

Women experiencing abuse from their partners need more than a helpline, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable ecosystem to the brink.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.

Schoolchildren are falling through the digital divide, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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

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

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

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.

Enrolment does not equal education, argues Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Narendra Modi’s second mandate is a ‘sword hanging above the heads’ of India’s minorities. Nilanjana Bhowmick explains why.

Agricultural workers in India are facing a monumental crisis. They backed Modi in the last election. The question is whether they will do so again. Nilanjana Bhowmick reports.

Nilanjana Bhowmick weighs up Modi’s chances in the coming elections in India.

Why are Indian men feeling unsafe? Nilanjana Bhowmick reacts to the ‘unease’ expressed by Indian men in today’s #MeToo era.

Nilanjana Bhowmick reports on Modi’s crackdown on dissent – from activist arrests to vigilante lynchings.

Nilanjana Bhowmick takes apart the latest viral hashtag campaign for the religious takeover of secular India

Violence against women is being used as a weapon of communal hatred, suggesting India should enact the Communal Violence bill, Nilanjana Bhowmick argues

Some 50 days into India’s efforts to funnel out black money, something seems not to have gone to plan, writes Nilanjana Bhomwick.