India

The Most Dangerous Border in the World

Why is China picking a fight with India?

BY ELY RATNER, ALEXANDER SULLIVAN | MAY 4, 2013

Standoff at 15,000 Feet

Photos of the world's highest border dispute.

MAY 3, 2013

8 Myths About India's Growth

On closer inspection, the Indian miracle turns out to be pretty ordinary after all.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | APRIL 29, 2013

The End of the Gandhis

Can Rahul Gandhi run India? Can anybody?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY/JUNE 2013

The World's Most Controversial Walmarts

The big box behemoth might be a global force for good, but expansion doesn't make everyone happy.

BY COLIN DAILEDA | APRIL 29, 2013

Mission Creep

Charles Kenny is too quick to encourage people to give up their privacy.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Ten Questions for the New BRICS Bank

The great emerging markets want to start their own bank. But it doesn't seem like they've really thought it through.

BY ISOBEL COLEMAN | APRIL 9, 2013

Patently Reasonable

India's Supreme Court has ruled against Big Pharma and for the country's generic drug companies. But who's the big winner in the end?

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | APRIL 3, 2013

Metro Diplomacy

The State Department is engaging the world’s growing cities like never before. A top U.S. diplomat explains why.

BY ROBERT D. HORMATS | MARCH 28, 2013

Beggaring Thy Neighbors

Poorer countries no longer have rich ones to blame for inequalities in trade. Now they're the ones pulling the strings.

BY GREG RUSHFORD | MARCH 25, 2013

The Disease Next Door

How the world’s nastiest and least-known outbreaks are afflicting some of the world’s wealthiest countries.

BY PETER HOTEZ | MARCH 25, 2013

Policing Electoral Violence in India

How India's elections administration used “vulnerability mapping” to stop trouble before it happened.

BY MICHAEL SCHARFF | MARCH 21, 2013

Egypt's Financial High Noon

Cairo needs to tackle its subsidy addiction. And yes, it’s not going to be easy.

BY ISOBEL COLEMAN | MARCH 21, 2013

Trade Coalitions of the Willing

Forget about the WTO. Here's how Obama is about to change the game on free trade.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | MARCH 18, 2013

Defeating Extreme Poverty

An exclusive excerpt of USAID's 2013 Annual Letter.

BY RAJIV SHAH | MARCH 18, 2013

Lean Forward

Why there's finally cause for celebration this International Women's Day

BY VALERIE M. HUDSON | MARCH 8, 2013

Gentle Giant

Why isn’t India spending more on its military?

BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | MARCH 6, 2013

The Case for Big Brother

A little government monitoring can be a good thing.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 4, 2013

A Country Unto Itself

There’s no place like India. Which is precisely why its politics and economy are such a contradictory, beautiful mess.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 1, 2013

Return of the Gandhis

In the new India, everything is moving a mile a minute. Except politics.

BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The Case for TAFTA

Why Obama's call for a free trade agreement between the United States and Europe could be a game-changer.

BY KATI SUOMINEN | FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The First Lab Results Are In

Democracy Lab is celebrating its first anniversary. Here are some of the things we've learned over the past year -- and where we're headed in year two.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2013

The Silence in Delhi

The trial of India's vicious gang-rapists is under way, but don't think for a second the government is really committed to reform of women's rights.

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | JANUARY 25, 2013

The 5 Most Important Questions About Afghanistan

Obama can't shirk the difficult issues when he meets with Karzai this week.

BY MICHAEL KUGELMAN | JANUARY 9, 2013

Can India Defeat Poverty?

A bold new program may show the world the way.

BY AMANDA GLASSMAN, NANCY BIRDSALL | JANUARY 8, 2013

For Shame

Wait, Pakistan is blasting India for treating women badly?

BY RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL | JANUARY 4, 2013

Sign Language

The brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in December has resulted in swift charges against five men and angry protests across the country. Want a sense of just how outraged people are? Look no further than the signs they're waving at demonstrations.

JANUARY 3, 2013

Four Surprises That Could Rock Asia in 2013

Are we paying attention to the wrong crises?

BY MICHAEL MAZZA | JANUARY 3, 2013

Rough Cut

Nearly all the world's diamonds -- legal or not -- pass through this one Indian city.

BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013

My Enemy, Myself

Who's your enemy? Why fight? Over the course of three years, Belgian-Tunisian photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa has traveled to both sides of the world's longest-simmering conflicts to ask these pointed questions. What he heard from combatants in the Gaza Strip, the disputed Kashmir region along the India-Pakistan border, and tribally divided South Sudan captures the futility of wars that never end -- and can't be won. Tragically, bitter rivals are often fighting for the very same reasons.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARIM BEN KHELIFA | JANUARY 2, 2013