Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check. September 21, 2009. In India, huge dowry demands have led families to use criminal gangs that kidnap men and force them into wedlock. The women in these unions fare even worse.
Ranjit Devraj, IPS News. September 4, 2009. India's current dry spell is rapidly turning into a full-fledged drought as a result of reckless exploitation of groundwater resources for farming.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. An Indian court on Thursday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting high-explosive bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003.
Agence France Presse July 21, 2009. Global beverage giant Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported forecast-beating quarterly profit, aided by strong volume growth in emerging markets like China and India.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: World. July 20, 2009. The U.S. and India had a much easier time negotiating a multi-billion dollar arms deal than an agreement to protect the environment.
Gillian Kane, AlterNet. June 17, 2009. Around the world, antiabortion organizations use their political influence and dangerous rhetoric to punish and endanger women.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 20, 2009. Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.
Vandana Shiva, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009. The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization.
Arundhati Roy, Comment Is Free. April 1, 2009. What is happening right now in Sri Lanka, and what is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny, is a brazen, openly racist war.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 26, 2009. Medha Patkar talks about trying to save one of the oldest civilizations and battling the world's most formidable institutions.
Fatima Sultan Syed, World Pulse. March 2, 2009. Fatima Sultan Syed pierces the shroud obscuring one of the world's most enduring conflicts -- a brutal 60-year dispute over her homeland of Kashmir.
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center. December 6, 2008. Under fire for its mismanagement of water resources in India, Coke has gone all out to create an image of itself as a leader in water conservation.
Lakshmi Chaudhry, TheNation.com. December 4, 2008. We may recoil at the 9/11 narrative, but for many in India, it is a call to the world to recognize their loss.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 2, 2008. The American doctrine that it's ok to bomb other countries if you invoke the word "terrorism" is a very dangerous one.
M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times. December 2, 2008. No sooner had the carnage in Mumbai ended than a three-way diplomatic tussle began involving India, Pakistan and the U.S.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 26, 2008. Attacks in India, FBI warning for New York City, Obama helping Wall Street, and more.
