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India to Enforce Citizenship Law Criticized as Anti-Muslim
The law sparked lethal riots when it was passed. Now, after a four-year delay, it has come into force on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election campaign.
The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?
Asia’s two giants are crowding the island nation with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro.
India’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Contentious Election Fund-Raising Tool
Judges found that government bonds used for anonymous political donations were unconstitutional.
‘It Is Suffocating’: A Top Liberal University Is Under Attack in India
A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on left-leaning and secular institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Demolition of Muslim Properties Sets Off Deadly Violence in India
When officials arrived to raze a mosque and seminary ruled to be illegally located on public property, they encountered hundreds of protesters.
Lights! Camera! Modi! It’s a One-Man Show on Indian Television.
The grand opening of a temple in Ayodhya was both a religious ritual and a made-for-TV spectacle for a broadcast media co-opted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Tuesday Briefing: North Korean Missiles in Ukraine
Plus, a “revolutionary” way to feed the world.
Why India’s New Ram Temple Is So Important
Its site is sacred to Hindus, and it also represents the much more recent victory of Hinduism as a political identity.
Modi Opens a Giant Temple in a Triumph for India’s Hindu Nationalists
The temple inaugurated by the prime minister is on the disputed site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack that set a precedent of impunity in cases of violence against Muslims.