Sushmita Pathak
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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.
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Billions of Indians face a strict lockdown. Those in quarantine have their own set of concerns about unsafe conditions.
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"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.
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Hundreds of women are attacked with acid in India each year. A Bollywood film about a survivor-turned-activist — starring a top Indian actress — tackles the stigma.
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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.
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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.
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Researchers say the country's fixation on the rape of urban women in public settings distorts the reality of sexual violence in India.
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Protests have escalated in India against a new citizenship law.
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The new legislation purports to protect transgender rights — but many trans activists say it does the exact opposite.
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Mumbai's mangroves — a defense against floods and climate change — are endangered by urbanization. But a forest ranger is educating citizens on the value of the trees, hoping to save them.
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Even though the Delhi government has urged folks not to exercise outdoors, a "Race for Children" still took place. The Twittersphere was outraged.