‘Destructive’: tribes in India at risk as expanding tourism plans threaten cultural identity, ecosystem
Jitu Jakesika was barely nine when foreign tourists started coming in groups to Kurli village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
Sonia Sarkar in asian news
India’s West Bengal state tries to put an end to child marriages: ‘we want to save all girls’
In September, when the mother of 17-year-old Pinki Sahoo* in West Bengal’s Dakshin Dinajpur had arranged her marriage to a construction worker, the teen informed her school in a desperate plea for help to stop the union.
How India’s independent weathermen are taking the internet by storm
Traditional weather forecasting by India’s meteorological department has often been ridiculed because of its wrong predictions and briefings full of jargon that ordinary citizens cannot understand.
Australia’s Indian diaspora wants more political representation, but is there a glass ceiling?
In 2021, the 64-year-old co-founded an advocacy group that worked with political leaders to resolve issues related to migrant rights, racism, multiculturalism, and religious extremism. A year later, he contested the Warrandyte seat in the Victoria state election on a Greens party ticket, finishing third.
Why are more people in India eating millet? Is the ancient grain the flavour of the month?
For years, Thalin Raj ignored his parents’ advice to eat millet at breakfast because of its bland taste. But the 12-year-old student’s interest in the grain was piqued after he took part in a millet planting campaign in the Indian city of Chennai in January with thousands of other children.
South Korean influencers wow Bangladeshis and Indians with their love of Bengali language and culture
While pursuing a degree majoring in Hindi, Lee picked up the basics of Bengali grammar from local friends in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and watched Bangladeshi news channels to improve his speaking skills.
Indians in US universities alarmed by mysterious deaths of fellow students seek help to tackle safety concerns
For the past month, TB, who prefers to use his initials, has been flooded with messages at his university in Boston from fellow students from the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over safety concerns.
Snake venom smuggled from India to China: traditional medicine, rave drug or ‘absolute nonsense’?
Venom experts, however, have raised doubts about some of the claims – especially surrounding the substance’s supposed use as a rave drug.
- 1
- 2