India Explained

The concluding part of our three-part special on independence day

Part 2 of our special on independence day

We discuss the many meanings of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence

We discuss the Indian state's lofty indifference to the hardship and death of its citizens

Aayush Soni reports on, and we discuss, Project Insight, a government plan to track records ostensibly for tax evasion.

We discuss the challenges that policewomen face in India, given the fact that public space skews male

We discuss frozen mystics and the afterlife, in the context of a bizarre case involving a dead godman and a battle over his assets

We discuss the practice of villagers leaving elders to be killed by tigers, for government compensation

The second part of our discussion on NRI attitudes and behaviors

The first of two parts. We discuss NRI attitudes, and behaviors