India

Does India Still Need a Hindu Nationalist Party?

A look at the future prospects of India's controversial right-wing politicians.

BY ELLIOT HANNON | APRIL 30, 2010

A Hajj Gone Wrong

What if you went to Mecca -- and hated it? A story from a Hindi novelist.

BY MANZOOR AHTESHAM | APRIL 26, 2010

The Top Chef for India's Real Housewives

The man behind India's proposed new 24-hour food channel isn't quite the Westernized culinary rebel some might think. 

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | MARCH 29, 2010

How Pakistan Fell in Love With Bollywood

The history of a culture clash.

BY ANUJ CHOPRA | MARCH 15, 2010

Talking the Talk

When the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers sit down on Thursday, don't expect more than that.

BY MAYANK CHHAYA | FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Bricks for Bread and Milk

India's capital city has been flooded with a new wave of migrant workers -- children.

BY KAYVAN FARZANEH, ANDREW SWIFT | FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Why India Is No Villain

Barbara Crossette is wrong: This rising power helps solve far more problems than it creates.

BY NITIN PAI | JANUARY 7, 2010

The Elephant in the Room

The biggest pain in Asia isn't the country you'd think.

BY BARBARA CROSSETTE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

India's 9/11

How it could happen again.

BY STEPHEN TANKEL | NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A New Alliance

The Mumbai attacks should strengthen the bonds tying India and the United States together.

BY MANIK V. SURI | NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Boring Summits Are Better for Everyone

Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.

BY JOHN LEE | NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Planet Slum

Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families' lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.

BY JONAS BENDIKSEN, CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Indian Winter

What the censorship of a film about India's founding father shows about New Delhi's cautious relationship toward its own history.

BY KAPIL KOMIREDDI | OCTOBER 19, 2009

Time for India to Play Hardball with China

With its recent provocations, Beijing seems to think New Delhi is still the naive young power of yesteryear. It's time for India's leaders to prove otherwise.

BY KAPIL KOMIREDDI | OCTOBER 2, 2009

Strange Bedfellows

China's problems in Xinjiang are forcing it to reach out to India. But does India care?

BY BAHUKUTUMBI RAMAN | AUGUST 31, 2009

Why Asia Wins

Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, says Minxin Pei underestimates the significance of Asia's growth in "Think Again: Asia's Rise." Economic Strategy Institute President Clyde Prestowitz suggests authoritarian leadership helped drive the region's success.

SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Brazil's Blessing in Disguise

How Lula turned an HIV crisis into a geopolitical opportunity.

BY EDUARDO J. GÓMEZ | JULY 22, 2009

India's Media Explosion

Why print journalism is flourishing in the world's largest democracy.

BY KANISHK THAROOR | JULY 20, 2009

Commander of the Faithful

Meet the man who is Islamabad and Washington's new Public Enemy No. 1.

BY IMTIAZ ALI | JULY 9, 2009

The List: Globalized Motors

As sagging demand in the United States and Western Europe has pushed General Motors into bankruptcy, the auto behemoth has actually been expanding in emerging markets and building new factories.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | APRIL 1, 2009

The List: Look Who's Censoring the Internet Now

Countries like Iran and China are notorious for their Internet censorship regimes. But a growing number of democracies are setting up their own great fire walls.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | MARCH 24, 2009

India's Financial Secret Weapon

India has escaped the worst of the financial crisis, but how long can it last?

BY ARVIND PANAGARIYA | JANUARY 22, 2009

India’s Chinese Wall

If you were born today, would you rather be Chinese or Indian?

BY JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM | JANUARY 5, 2009

India’s New Deal

On a recent morning in a village in eastern India, Hirya Devi, a rail-thin woman in a tangerine sari, told a crowd of a few hundred poor laborers how she came to participate in the largest employment program in human history.

BY DANIEL PEPPER | JANUARY 5, 2009

The Deadly World of Fake Drugs

Whether it's phony Viagra or knockoff cancer meds, fake drugs kill thousands of people each day, thanks to counterfeiters in China and India who mix chalk, dust, and dirty water into pills sold around the world. With the Internet becoming the world's dispensary, these poison pills could be coming to a pharmacy near you.

BY ROGER BATE | AUGUST 12, 2008

India Plays Catch-Up

Pieter Botellier and Appu Soman take issue with Yasheng Huang's cover story, "The Next Asian Miracle."

AUGUST 12, 2008

India's Literary Wake-Up Call

It's a country in the midst of an industrial revolution. Yet, according to popular author and editor Shobhaa De, when it comes to literature, India remains stuck in the past.

INTERVIEW BY PIYA KOCHHAR | JUNE 16, 2008

The Next Asian Miracle

Democracies are peaceful, representative -- and terrible at boosting an economy. Or at least that’s the conventional wisdom in Asia, where for years growth in India's sprawling democracy has been humbled by China's efficient, state-led boom. But India’s newfound economic success flips that notion on its head. Could it be that democracy is good for growth after all? If so, China better watch its back.

BY YASHENG HUANG | JUNE 16, 2008

Reasons to Be Bullish?

Economists Daniel Rosen and Tim Duy, and global investment strategist Jack Dzierwa, challenge Nouriel Roubini's gloomy prediction of "The Coming Financial Pandemic."

APRIL 10, 2008