Many years ago in West Bengal, I encountered school-age boys playing Carrom or cricket all day. Curious as to why they weren’t at school or out working, they responded: “We are all employed. We do ...

On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks on the stage with then-U.S. President Donald Trump to address a crowd of 50,000 people of Indian origin at the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston, Texas, September ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of elections to counter wider worries about ...

When more than two dozen opposition parties in India announced they would band together as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (or INDIA) last June, critics of the ruling Bharatiya ...

NEARLY ONE BILLION people are casting their votes in India’s general election. It is the biggest democratic exercise in history—and could also be the most expensive. Spending is expected to reach ...

In April, an unassuming old building in New Delhi’s furniture market housed roughly 30 youngsters. Some were hunched over their laptops crunching data on Excel or analyzing a heat map, while others ...

Two veterans of bare-knuckled Indian politics have the Parliament votes the prime minister will need, but neither is aligned with his Hindu-first vision. By Victoria Kim and Pragati K.B. After his ...

For nearly a century, Bollywood has held a mirror to Indian society, the plotlines of the world’s most prolific movie industry reflecting the changing tides of a vast, developing nation. India’s ...

New Delhi | Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said dynastic politics across the political spectrum poses a "grave threat" to Indian democracy and asserted that it is high time India traded ...

When Indira Gandhi became India's first female Prime Minister in 1966 (and the only one ever since), she might have unknowingly set the wheels in motion for a new wave of feminism in India. At a time ...