Sushmita Pathak
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India has ordered 1.3 billion people to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown seems to have inadvertently solved, at least temporarily, another public health crisis: air pollution. -
Acrobatic dancers from Mumbai's slums performed to a Bollywood song and wowed the audience. Fame may help them out of poverty. NPR's India producer visited some of their homes.
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Per capita, India has fewer hospital beds and ventilators than almost any country in the world. Medical professionals fear the government's promised $2 billion health care revamp will be too late. -
Billions of Indians face a strict lockdown. Those in quarantine have their own set of concerns about unsafe conditions. -
"America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people," President Trump told a cheering crowd in a huge cricket stadium. -
Protesters say the weekend attack at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was carried out by Hindu nationalists linked to the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a charge the BJP denies. -
Residents of India's big financial city hail the end of an era as their classic black and yellow cabs ride off into the sunset. -
Researchers say the country's fixation on the rape of urban women in public settings distorts the reality of sexual violence in India. -
The new legislation purports to protect transgender rights — but many trans activists say it does the exact opposite. -
Even though the Delhi government has urged folks not to exercise outdoors, a "Race for Children" still took place. The Twittersphere was outraged.
