Some of the world’s last Maoist rebels are in India. Their decades-long rebellion is in its death throes

Fired by the teachings of China’s Mao Zedong, they had spent decades battling to overthrow the Indian state, and install in ...
The EconomistOpinion

India’s loudest political fight obscures a more urgent one

Editor’s note: The Economist is launching a new column on India. Ashoka is named after the first ruler whose empire stretched ...
The Guardian

Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll

Experts say Muslims and other minorities have been disproportionately deleted from the electoral roll ahead of the West Bengal elections this week Millions of people in the Indian state of West Bengal ...
The New York Times

Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’

States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage. By Anupreeta Das Reporting from New Delhi In India, the land of more than a ...