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Alok Gupta
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Melting glaciers threaten China and India’s hydropower ambitions
The dams the two countries are relying on may not be able to generate much power if avalanches, landslides and floods continue worsening.
Alok Gupta
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In flood-prone Bihar, communities are finding desperate ways to save monsoon weddings
Grooms are hopping into boats and onto tractors to avoid cancelling weddings. But this type of adaptation comes with risk and some cultural loss.
Alok Gupta
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Patna deluge wasn’t caused by climate change alone. Government ineptness was also to blame
Officials don’t even have a map of the city’s colonial-era sewage system.
Alok Gupta
Trending
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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View from Nepal: India’s reaction to new currency note betrays patronising outlook to its neighbour
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Memoir: Human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar recalls her understanding of feminism as a young woman
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ review: An animation legend rolls out enchantment and emotional resonance
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Streams of red, green and yellow: The water in a Bihar village is too toxic to drink
The textile industry of Patwa Toli is polluting rivers and groundwater.
Alok Gupta
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Karan Johar is right to be cautious about his sexuality – India's gay sex law isn’t just about sex
Section 377 may be a law about sexual acts, but it camouflages a more sinister agenda.
Alok Gupta
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Why many of Bihar's bridges are under threat
Bigger floods and increased erosion due to climate change are threatening and damaging river bridges in the state.
Alok Gupta
Video
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Plan to revive Jharkhand dam with bloody past poses threat to people, wildlife
Several villages and parts of a tiger reserve can be submerged by the irrigation project.
Alok Gupta
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With vultures disappearing, it's getting increasingly difficult to dispose of carcasses
New methods have come up to deal with animal carcasses, including North India’s first crematorium for animals.
Alok Gupta
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India’s Ganga waterways project raises hopes (and fears)
A government plan to promote navigation along the Ganga has one of its provinces up in arms due to a bad history with earlier barrages and embankments.
Alok Gupta
The Reel
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‘Murder in Mahim’ review: A crime as unjust as wrongful death
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‘Srikanth’ review: An inspiring tale of remarkable achievement
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‘The Boy and the Heron’ review: An animation legend rolls out enchantment and emotional resonance
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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The enduring influence of the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ on Telugu cinema