The clash over language teaching is less about classrooms and more about who gets to define what it means to be Indian.

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A decision by the country’s highest court opens up nearshore waters to export-minded commercial trawlers, waters that had ...

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Systemic fraud is undermining gender quotas designed to boost the number of women in Brazilian politics. Political parties who support men also put forward “ghost candidates” – ...

The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai — Asia’s largest informal settlement — is located on prime real estate. Many people who live there now are under pressure to relocate to an area near a toxic ...

CAP-HAÏTIEN, HAITI — When armed men invaded the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Carrefour Feuilles in August 2023, hundreds of families had no choice but to flee. “They set my house on fire; we ...

Kshetrimayum Dinesh and his father run a food stall outside the Khoyol Keithel relief camp in Moirang, while Lamjahat Haokip collects laundry at the Sadbhavna Mandap camp in Churachandpur. MANIPUR ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, is attempting to block potential political candidates from running as independents. In April, it introduced a requirement for ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, was approaching a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He had little reason to question what was in his truck’s sealed container — he’d ...

EAST JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Wiyanti was crushed by exhaustion after spending noon until midnight trying to purge water and mud from her family’s home. It still wasn’t completely clean. Floodwaters more ...

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — In 2024, Netra, a 21-year-old from a village in eastern Nepal, entered what he thought was a technology center in a remote area of Myanmar. Instead, what he found horrified him. The ...

LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — In February, Stino Muhindo Sivyaghendera lit a match and held it to the grass in the field of eucalyptus trees he’d planted three years earlier. In the months ...