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Opinion | That Thing That India and Pakistan Do – The New York Times

September 26, 2018 September 26, 2018 / India and Sri Lanka

By Mohammed Hanif Mr. Hanif is a Pakistani novelist. Sept. 26, 2018 ImageThe Pakistani military in Karachi this month commemorating its second war with India in 1965. Both sides claimed victory.CreditCreditAsif Hassan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “KARACHI, Pakistan — Four years ago when India elected the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) to power, Pakistan’s iconic …

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Deadly Tensions Rise as India’s Water Supply Runs Dangerously Low – The New York Times

June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 / Climate Change, India and Sri Lanka

By Maria Abi-Habib and Hari Kumar “SHIMLA, India — The people of Shimla haven’t agreed on much lately. A drought in the Himalayan resort has had residents blaming farmers, the tourism industry and one another for depleting the strained water supplies. And everyone’s been angry at the key men. Shimla’s decrepit network of water pipes, built under British …

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Opinion | #MeToo Goes Global – by Nicholas Kristof – NYT

May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, David Lindsay, India and Sri Lanka, Nicholas Kristof

She was an 8-year-old girl with thick brown hair, large brown eyes, a purple dress and a fondness for running through the fields in northern India where she tended horses. Then a man called her into the nearby forest, grabbed her by the neck and forced her to take sleeping pills, according to police accounts. The …

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The Uninhabitable Village – by Geeta Anand and Vikram Singh – NYT Oct 26 2017

February 5, 2018 February 5, 2018 / Climate Change, India and Sri Lanka

Beautiful photography, heartbreaking story: Each sentence below has a photo video clip: “This is S. Periyanayaki in the rice field in southern India where her husband died. The worst drought in more than a century killed his rice crop, and he blamed himself. A farmer found Periyanayaki’s husband, K. Suresh, lying in the barren field. …

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Feature: Heat and drought drive south India’s farmers from fields to cities – April 2017 Reuters.com

February 5, 2018 February 5, 2018 / Climate Change, India and Sri Lanka

NAGAPATTINAM, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vinod Kumar remembers a time, not so long ago, when the fields in his village in the southern state of Tamil Nadu were green all year round. His family lived comfortably from its farmland of just over 2 acres (0.8 hectares), growing vegetables, coconuts and millet irrigated by the …

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India drought: ‘330 million people affected’ – BBC News 20 April 2016

February 5, 2018 February 5, 2018 / Climate Change, India and Sri Lanka

I am looking for evidence to support the report in the NYT last month, that 100,000 Indian farmers had committed suicide because of the drought in Southeast India. This old article in the BBC sheds some background light on the disaster. “At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India, the government has …

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Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India? – The New York Times

December 5, 2017 December 21, 2017 / India and Sri Lanka, Information Technology

“JODHPUR, India — Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first internet phone last week. “It’s necessary for me to learn new things,” said Manju, who uses only one name. She was so thrilled to discover …

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