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Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke at a protest in New Delhi in June.

Political satire

Why young Indians are proud to call themselves cockroaches

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by Roli Mahajan
Romita Ghosh, founder of MAAP (Malnutrition Assessment and Action Plan).

India

Romita Ghosh uses AI to fight malnutrition

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by Romita Ghosh
by Roli Mahajan

Psychology

In Pakistan, they are waiting for loved ones who may never return

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by Aqsa Younas
Members of the Afghan women’s team celebrate a goal in October 2025. At the time, the team was still competing under the name “Afghan Women United”.

Football stories

A success for Afghan women’s football

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by Isah Shafiq
Funeral for the victims of a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation clinic in Kabul in March. According to UN sources, at least 143 civilians were killed in the attack.

Cross-border conflicts

Pakistan and Afghanistan: a war, not a development corridor

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by Katja Mielke
The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, one of India’s largest e-waste dumps.

Recycling

How India aims to secure rare earth supply through e-waste

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by Roli Mahajan
Sex workers and activists demonstrate on the eve of International Labour Day 2022 in Kolkata.

Labour rights

Selling sex, seeking respect: Life in India’s red-light districts

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by Khushboo Srivastava
Afghan refugees leaving Pakistan at the Torkham border crossing in November 2025.

Involuntary migration

The harsh fate of Afghan families pushed out of Pakistan

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by Aqsa Younas
Torchlight procession in Kolkata in August 2025, on the anniversary of the brutal rape of a female doctor in the city.

Gender equality

A city where women need panic buttons is not a safe city

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by Roli Mahajan
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