Alok Shukla is one of the winners of the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize. He’s cited for a campaign to keep a company from felling a forest in India to excavate the coal that lies beneath.
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Up and down the Ganges, India’s Modi enjoys support after 10 years of rule
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to win a third term, NPR visited some of his voter base in the north.
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The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024
Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.
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Q&A: Yashica Dutt on her life as part of an oppressed caste in ‘Coming Out As Dalit’
When Dutt was a kid, her family pretended to be rich so no one would suspect their caste identity. In her memoir, she talks of her struggles — and her decision to publicly declare she is a Dalit.
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Who cooked up butter chicken? A court seeks the answer. Plus: Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe
Two families are battling for bragging rights as the inventor of the wildly popular dish. Will the truth come out? Or it could be there’s another origin story involving … British tastebuds?
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Oscar-nommed doc: A 13-year-old and her dad demand justice after she is raped
In “To Kill a Tiger,” director Nisha Pahuja follows the case of a girl who is gang-raped in her Indian village. The villagers say she should marry one of the rapists.
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India to participate in Saudi Arabia summit on finding ways to start Ukraine war negotiations
An Indian official says New Delhi will participate in a weekend meeting that Saudi Arabia is hosting to find a way to start negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. A spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry said Thursday that Saudi Arabia invited India to the two-day meeting in Jeddah and its “participation is in consonance with our long-standing position that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward.” The spokesman didn’t reveal who would represent the country at the summit. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office confirmed Sunday that a Ukrainian-organized peace summit would take place in Saudi Arabia.
