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In Shimla, the city of Indian Summers, the Raj’s colonial legacy lives on
April 10, 2015
A hotbed of political, social and romantic intrigue set amid rolling hills, no place encapsulates the global ambitions as well as the parochial desires of the Raj better than Shimla. Modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka were governed from Shimla amid a whirl of colonial picnics, garden fetes, balls, plays, hunts, cocktail parties, races, ...Blood for sale- India’s illegal ‘red’ market
February 5, 2015
We find the blood tout, Rajesh, sitting on a tattered blanket next to a stall drinking milky tea from a flimsy plastic cup as monkeys traverse electrical lines overhead. Posing as the relatives of an accident victim, we tell him we need three units of blood. “Three thousand rupees ($48; £30) per donor,” Rajesh says. “I’ll ...
Recent TV
The Supreme Court in India has ruled that the sale of acid needs to be regulated, to reduce attacks against women. One of the people who campaigned for stricter rules was Laxmi, who was attacked with acid after refusing a marriage proposal. Al Jazeera’s Anu Anand reports from New Delhi. *This report contains pictures that some viewers might find disturbing.*
