'Don't Worry, Be Happy', urge 20 Indian performers in an infectious video
Bobby McFerrin gets a subcontinental twist.

Automation and surveillance in Bangladesh garment factories cuts wages, pushes out women workers
The UK wants to ban first-cousin marriages – but there’s an ethical challenge
A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
The line blurs between police and vigilante
What the sidelining of a Delhi University professor says about India’s attacks on academic freedom
What constitutes ‘urban’ in India?
Indian scholar ‘self-deports’ from US after visa is revoked for allegedly ‘supporting Hamas’
Trump’s MAGA + Modi’s MIGA = A mega contradiction
How the Cinevesture festival is building a marketplace for cinema: ‘I view every film as a start-up’
‘And above all light’: Writer Tishani Doshi on the ‘truthfulness’ of ‘truth’