The Guardian: India NewsLifestyle (UK) Toy story: Hamleys hopes revamp will boost its fortunes The Guardian - Zoe WoodFake snow is falling and a hyperactive elf is hopping around on the pavement, geeing up the crowd pressed against the windows of Hamleys toy store, which is filled with a Christmas scene of sledding Beanie
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Violent clashes continue in India over new citizenship bill The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentViolent clashes erupted in Delhi amid allegations a new citizenship bill discriminates against Muslims and undermines the secular foundations of India, with protests over the legislation spreading to regions
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News ‘They will lock us up or just kill us’: Muslims fearful in West Bengal The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Soladana, West BengalIt was 81 days ago that Kamal Hussain Mondal, a 32-year-old brick factory worker from a remote village in West Bengal, took his own life. He had been a carefree man and attentive father to his two young
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Two shot dead in Indian protests over citizenship bill The Guardian - Ahmer Khan in Assam and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiTwo protesters have been shot dead by police in the Indian state of Assam during unrest over legislation that will allow for Hindu but not Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to citizens
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Indian citizenship law discriminatory to Muslims passed The Guardian - AP in New DelhiIndian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the government said the legislation undermines
The Guardian: India NewsWomen's News (India) The decade that was … Inside the 13 December edition of the Guardian Weekly The Guardian - Will DeanThis week, as the Guardian Weekly was being delivered to readers, Britons voted in the first UK election to take place in December since 1910. At the time of writing the result is (perhaps blissfully)
The Guardian: India NewsOpinion Indian police killing rape suspects is not justice, it’s just more toxic masculinity The Guardian - Meena KandasamyWhat is most sinister about this narrative is the way it whitewashes the undeniable history of the police's own rapes On 27 November, a group of men raped, smothered and then burned the body of a vet her
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News North-east India gripped by protests over citizenship bill excluding Muslims The Guardian - Agence France-Presse in GuwahatiProtesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill. The legislation,
The Guardian: India NewsEcuador In Ecuador, no one can act outside the law The Guardian - LettersWith regard to your report on the alleged establishment of an island nation off the coast of my country by an Indian national known as Nithyananda (Hindu guru on the run sets up own island nation, 6 December),
The Guardian: India NewsBhopal 'Bhopal’s tragedy has not stopped': the urban disaster still claiming lives 35 years on The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in BhopalThe situation is getting worse, not better. We are seeing more and more second and third generation children being born with such disabilities Rashida Bee From the beginning the government has protected
The Guardian: India NewsOpinion Another week of violence that brings shame on all India The Guardian - Kenan MalikA 23-year-old rape victim, on the way to a court hearing, is doused in kerosene and set alight. She dies in hospital with 95% burns. Four men accused of the brutal gang rape of a young vet in Hyderabad
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Anger and grief after dozens killed in Delhi factory fire The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiA fire has swept through a market in Delhi in the early hours, killing at least 43 people and prompting an outpouring of grief and anger. Witnesses said the fire took hold so quickly that there was little
The Guardian: India NewsPollution 'Just leave': Delhi, Beijing and Mexico City residents on how to cope with pollution Australia News - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, Jo Tuckman in Mexico City and Lily Kuo in BeijingStay indoors, lock all the windows Rachna The only thing to do is ignore it Daniel Salazar The east coast of Australia is in the grip of a bushfire and air pollution crisis. But plummeting air quality
The Guardian: India NewsNews ‘I will die if I have to’: hunger striker leads fight against rape crisis in India The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen“Stop rape. Stop rape.” The chants rang out over the Samta Sthal memorial as hundreds of women from Delhi and beyond raised their fists in a show of collective rage. Among them sat Leena, 35. “I was six
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News India rape victim dies after being set alight on her way to court The Guardian - Reuters in New DelhiA 23-year-old rape victim who was set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapist, has died in a New Delhi hospital, the doctor treating her said. The woman was on her way to board a train
The Guardian: India NewsOpinion British Hindus voting for Labour are not ‘traitors’ to India The Guardian - Shami ChakrabartiWe children of migrants all have family legends. Mine is of a young man on a ship in 1959. He had £5 in his pocket and a sweetheart who could only join him a few years later, once he had worked and saved
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News 'If you saw her body, you will never sleep again': despair as India rape crisis grows The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in RajasthanHer family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school uniform and a belt fastened around her neck, she lay among
The Guardian: India NewsNews Indian police shoot dead four men suspected of Hyderabad rape The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiIndian police have shot dead the four men accused of the brutal gang rape of a young vet in Hyderabad in circumstances that have been described as “suspicious”. The four had become high-profile objects
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News India: woman set on fire on way to testify against alleged rapists The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentAn Indian woman has been set on fire on her way to a court hearing to testify against two men who had allegedly raped her. The 23-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital with 70% burns after she
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Fugitive Indian guru establishes 'cosmic country off Ecuador' The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentA fugitive guru and self-anointed “godman” who is facing charges of abduction and rape in India has established his own island nation, reportedly off the coast of Ecuador. Nithyananda, who built up a spiritual
The Guardian: India NewsArt Forgotten Masters review – the natural history geniuses robbed by the British empire The Guardian - Jonathan JonesThe bat looks at you with bright black eyes, shining with intelligence. The artist has turned this natural study into a portrait, giving what was surely a dead specimen a personality and inner life that
The Guardian: India NewsTechnology (India) India's crashed Vikram moon lander spotted on lunar surface The Guardian - Agence France-PresseA Nasa satellite orbiting the moon has found India’s Vikram lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September, the US space agency said on Monday. Nasa released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News World's 'largest animal sacrifice' starts in Nepal after ban ignored The Guardian - AFP in BariyarpurHindu worshippers have begun killing thousands of buffalo in what is reputed to be the world’s biggest animal sacrifice, held every five years in a remote corner of Nepal, despite efforts to end the bloodshed.
The Guardian: India NewsNews Protests escalate in India over gang-rape and murder of woman The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentOutrage has continued to grow in India over the gang-rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman, with protesters taking to the streets and politicians calling for the offenders to be “lynched”. Demonstrations
The Guardian: India NewsNews Protests in India after woman gang raped and burned to death The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentThe gang rape of a veterinary doctor whose body was set on fire and dumped under a bridge has sent shockwaves through India, with hundreds of women taking to the streets in protest. The charred body of
The Guardian: India NewsScience Spacewatch: you wait ages for a rocket launch then ... The Guardian - Stuart ClarkIt’s been a busy week for rocket launches. Europe, China, India and Russia have all sent payloads into space in the last seven days. Starting on 23 November, China launched two navigation satellites as
The Guardian: India NewsPolitics British Indians ought to vote Labour in the UK general election The Guardian - LettersAs a British Indian I am writing to express my extreme concern about the involvement of the Bharatiya Janata party – Narendra Modi’s ruling party in India – in Britain’s forthcoming general election. am
The Guardian: India NewsIndian Super League Manchester City owner makes Mumbai City the eighth club in global portfolio The Guardian - PA MediaCity Football Group has acquired a majority stake in its eighth football club. The group, which owns Manchester City, has agreed a deal to take a 65% stake in Mumbai City FC in the Indian Super League.
The Guardian: India NewsThe Theatre Darbar festival review – blazing celebration of Indian dance The Guardian - Sanjoy RoyInitially a showcase for Indian classical music, since 2017 the Darbar festival has invited Akram Khan to extend its programme into Indian dance (accompanied, rightly enough, by live music). This year,
The Guardian: India NewsWorld News Woman trying to visit Indian temple attacked with chilli spray The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentFemale activists in India were violently attacked by protesters and stopped by police as they attempted to make a pilgrimage to a Hindu temple which was controversially ordered to open its doors to women.
