The financial burden of weddings on India’s poorest famili...
February 1, 2021
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By: Neeta Lal
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
January 25, 2021
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By: Neeta Lal
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
January 15, 2021
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By: Neeta Lal
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...
December 24, 2020
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By: Neeta Lal
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?
December 2, 2020
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By: Neeta Lal
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
November 16, 2020
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By: Neeta Lal
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...
November 7, 2020
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By: Neeta Lal
Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: Neeta Lal
Conservationists in Pakistan have set to work restoring the ancest...
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