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Nearly ten years of air pollution data for dozens of Indian cities

What does it mean to be a citizen? How does it affect our political autonomy? Writer and podcaster Amit Varma, and Kavita Krishnan, writer and activist take a ride through the city of New Delhi discussing how democracy can be renewed in post-pandemic times.

The video series On the Road to Change brings people in Los Angeles, Berlin, Athens and New Delhi into the conversation about what democracies can learn from the pandemic.
In the fourth episode, Amit Varma and Kavita Krishnan begin the introspective journey from the by lanes of Lutyen

Article in Scientific American, April 8, 2022 By Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana | Last month, while most of the world focused on the war in Ukraine and worried that a beleaguered Russian leadership might resort to nuclear weapons, thus escalating the conflict into a direct war with the U.S.-led NATO nuclear-armed alliance, a nearly tragic accident involving India and Pakistan pointed to another path to nuclear war. The accident highlighted how complex technological systems, including those involving nuclear weapons, can generate unexpected routes to potential disaster

The Editors Guild of India is shocked and outraged by the manner in which the police of Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested, stripped, and humiliated a local journalist as well as some members of the civil society, on April 2, 2022

Food has again turned political in India as right-wing politicians call for meat shops to be shut in the capital Delhi during the Hindu festival of Navratri. But the insistence on casting India, or even Hindus, as vegetarian, ignores the country’s long and intricate relationship with meat.

"If other communities respect the Hindu festival and welcome the decision, we will also show respect when their festivals will be celebrated," Parvesh Verma, a Delhi MP from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which governs India, said.

He suggested closing shops across India through the nine-day festival - which began on 2 April - during which many Hindus fast and abstain from eating meat.