Indian farmers step up illegal fires as Delhi air crisis worsens
Delhi’s smog crisis headed for a new toxic peak on Saturday but farmers are refusing to stop the stubble burning that is widely blamed for the poisonous clouds engulfing the…
Delhi smog shortening lives, say doctors as hospitals fill up
In the emergency ward of a Delhi hospital, men and women gasp for breath as they wait to be treated for symptoms triggered by the choking blanket of smog that…
Delhi ‘HIV’ virus
While the world is obsessed with coronavirus another deadlier virus is spreading fast in the region. This virus is a lethal virus and has the capacity of being more devastating…
Protesters tweet and TikTok but New Delhi shows stubbornness
With the world’s cheapest data, young Indians have lapped up Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp. But when these toys are used as tools to organise protests or fuel unrest, the government…
Delhi diary
After subsisting in a safari park zoo-like condition for nearly twelve weeks, I was filled with a little presumptuous feeling of optimism while taking leave. Although the reason for this…
In drought-hit Delhi, the haves get limitless water, the poor fight for every drop
In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India's rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate…
The burning truth: as farmers set fire to fields, Delhi braces for choking smog
Hours after a mechanised harvester chugged through the rice paddy, flames and a thick plume of black smoke rose into the twilight sky in India's northern Haryana state as farmers…
Rahul’s sabbatical and Delhi lessons
Shivam Vij of Scroll has got a cute solution to the existential crisis facing the Congress: Get Rahul Gandhi married: “What would have been Rahul Gandhi’s fate if he had…
Playing it cool with Delhi
The joint statement issued after the Ufa meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan can be read, if you wear those kind of spectacles, as a bit one-sided…
Lessons from Delhi
The sheer scale of the Aam Aadmi Party’s victory in the Delhi assembly elections has taken everyone — from the commentariat and pollsters on one hand, and opposition parties on…
