India
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World
Modi and India’s Diaspora: A Complex Love Affair Making Global Waves
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to fuse his image to the economic and political power of Indians abroad. They voice both pride and worry in return.
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World
Deadly Monsoon Flooding and Landslides Lash India
More than 20 people died over the weekend amid unusually heavy downpours that have pummeled the northern part of the country and caused widespread damage.
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World
Up to 50 Feared Dead in Train Crash in India
Hundreds more were injured in the crash, which Indian news reports said occurred after at least 10 train cars derailed.
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Politics
Cheetah Deaths in India Mar Reintroduction Efforts
The animals had been extinct for more than 70 years in the country, which has just begun a program that brought 20 cheetahs from Africa to a wildlife sanctuary.
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World
How to Wear a Sari? A New Exhibition Counts the Ways.
“The Offbeat Sari” explores the influence and evolution of the traditional South Asian garment.
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Arts
Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
THE COVENANT OF WATER, by Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese occupies a curious place in the modern literary landscape. A doctor who decided midcareer to train at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has gone on to achieve distinction in both fields. He is ...
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Food
The Essential (and at Times, Elusive) Power of Mustard Oil
South Asian cooks swear by the bite of mustard oil. But in the West, it is not as widely available.
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World
Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art
Veering from European-inspired abstraction, he embraced multimedia forms to reflect the realities of a country torn by ethnic and religious violence.
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World
Can India Change the World?
NEW DELHI — Is India the world’s next tiger economy, poised to succeed a slowing China as a pillar of the global economy? That wouldn’t be anything new, simply a recovery of its traditional position. One economic historian estimates that as recently ...
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World
Putin’s top security adviser holds talks with India’s prime minister as Moscow seeks closer ties.
A senior security adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with India’s prime minister in Delhi on Wednesday to discuss their nations’ “mutual interests,” officials said, as Moscow continued its campaign to build stronger alliances with ...