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Neeta Lal

Neeta Lal

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Furore over Emma Chamberlain’s Met Gala diamond necklace p...

US YouTuber Emma Chamberlain at the 2022 Met Gala in New York on May 2. Photo: Reuters Popular US YouTuber Emma Chamberlain is facing a backlash...

Bollywood A-listers’ status symbol: vanity vans that inclu...

Shah Rukh Khan’s van was designed by car designer Dilip Chhabria. Photo: Mr. Track/Captured from Youtube New Delhi: Glamorous vehicles owne...

India's toxic air: How pollution and politics put millions...

Girls walk to school through New Delhi's severe smog in November 2021.   © Reuters NEW DELHI -- The approach of Earth Day this...

India wary of China setting up Bangladesh missile maintena...

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in July 2019.   © Reuters...

Sword-wielding Indian granny keeps ancient martial art ali...

At 79 years old, Meenakshi Amma, right, remains a feisty proponent and practitioner of Kalaripayattu, an ancient Indian martial...

Priyanka Chopra backlash spotlights India’s surrogacy stig...

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas. The couple recently announced they had become parents via surrogacy. Photo: EPA No sooner had Priyanka Chopra...

Mukesh Ambani’s stake in New York’s Mandarin Oriental make...

Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani. Photo: Instagram India’s Reliance Industries, owned by Asia’s second richest man Mukesh Ambani, has agre...

India’s Katrina Kaif holds grand wedding with 100 cooks, a...

Indian Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif. Photo: AFP From opulent backdrops to dreamy dance sequences and ultra-glamorous attire, Bollywood films ar...

India’s Stolen Gods and Goddesses

Four Indian statues on display during a ceremony marking the repatriation of over 200 artifacts to the Indian government, at Blair House in Washingt...

Indian women in Tamil Nadu just won the right to sit at wo...

Women in saris in Tamil Nadu, which has just granted workers the right to sit. Photo: Getty Images Sreelatha, 32, works as a part-time cook in An...

India's plan to revamp Mahatma Gandhi home meets fierce cr...

A schoolgirl poses next to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the job of revamping one of...

A sari or cash? As Indian elections near, voter inducement...

Electoral workers draw traditional folk-art designs urging residents of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to vote in the coming legislative assembly elections. P...

The financial burden of weddings on India’s poorest famili...

An Indian brass band plays as they accompany a wedding procession in New Delhi [File: Manish Swarup/AP] New Delhi-based schoolteacher Sun...

Pandemic worsens India's mental health misery

A girl sells balloons on a beach in Mumbai in November. Roughly 56 million Indians suffer from depression and another 38 million have ...

India’s invisible women farmers

At Tikri village, bordering the western fringes of India’s national capital New Delhi, thousands of farmers from across the country have been ag...

'The brides feel like Cinderella': the free wedding shop h...

Secondhand clothes and wedding fabric are stored at Sabitha’s home in Kannuar, Kerala. They will be given free of charge to women for their we...

A cow cabinet in India’s Madhya Pradesh?

In a move that is bizarre even by Indian political standards, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh (MP)...

The army of women saving India’s storks

Purnima Devi Barman grew up seeing storks flocking freely near her home in Assam, India [Anupam Nath/Al Jazeera] Purnima Devi Barman, 39, knew so...

Pakistan highlights Bollywood links with Raj Kapoor and Di...

Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: Neeta Lal Conservationists in Pakistan have set to work restoring the ancest...