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Violence Flares as Hindu Group Calls for Removal of Muslim Ruler’s Tomb

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025Hari Kumar, Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B.Comments Off on Violence Flares as Hindu Group Calls for Removal of Muslim Ruler’s Tomb

The tensions showed how right-wing Hindu leaders and organizations in India use historical grievances to fuel contemporary tensions.

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Passengers Fled a Train Over Fears of a Fire. Then Another Train Hit Them.

January 23, 2025Suhasini Raj and Isabella KwaiComments Off on Passengers Fled a Train Over Fears of a Fire. Then Another Train Hit Them.

Twelve people were killed in India after they disembarked a train bound for Mumbai, only to be struck by another train, the authorities said.

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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India

December 20, 2024Megha RajagopalanComments Off on Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India

Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change.

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Formula for Power in Modi’s India: Cash, Detentions and Luxe Resorts

November 23, 2024November 23, 2024Mujib Mashal and Atul LokeComments Off on Formula for Power in Modi’s India: Cash, Detentions and Luxe Resorts

With a tactic known as “resort politics,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been accused of using brute force to take over Indian state governments.

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How Forced Labor and Hysterectomies Are Darkly Linked in India

November 21, 2024Megha RajagopalanComments Off on How Forced Labor and Hysterectomies Are Darkly Linked in India

Our correspondent explains how an exploitative labor system has produced a system of brutality in the country’s sugar fields.

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Abused Workers in India’s Sugar Industry Face Worse Fates if They Quit

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024Qadri Inzamam, Megha Rajagopalan and Saumya KhandelwalComments Off on Abused Workers in India’s Sugar Industry Face Worse Fates if They Quit

Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher.

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How The Times Investigated Indian Political Ties to Labor Abuse in the Sugar Industry

October 11, 2024Megha RajagopalanComments Off on How The Times Investigated Indian Political Ties to Labor Abuse in the Sugar Industry

Western companies such as Coca-Cola buy sugar from fields where workers suffer abuses. But the country has labor laws. Where was the government?

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Why Lawmakers Ignore Human Rights Abuses in India’s Sugar Fields

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024Megha Rajagopalan and Qadri InzamamComments Off on Why Lawmakers Ignore Human Rights Abuses in India’s Sugar Fields

Politicians run most of the mills in the state of Maharashtra. They deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields.

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Sugar Industry Faces Pressure Over Coerced Hysterectomies in India

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024Megha RajagopalanComments Off on Sugar Industry Faces Pressure Over Coerced Hysterectomies in India

After an investigation that ran in The New York Times, the industry is edging toward change. But companies in western India are reluctant to abandon an abusive labor system.

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Bonsucro Certified Indian Sugar From Abusive Fields

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024Megha RajagopalanComments Off on Bonsucro Certified Indian Sugar From Abusive Fields

Much of what consumers buy is marked “sustainable,” “humane” or “green.” In the sugar cane fields of India, that papered over the worst abuses.

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