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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Mujib Mashal |Suhasini Raj |Atul Loke
The crash of an Air India flight shows how the country’s ambitions of rapid growth are often superimposed on urban infrastructures already pushed to the limit.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Suhasini Raj |Mujib Mashal |Pragati K.B |Atul Loke
Families lined up for hours to give DNA samples so the authorities could match names to victims of Thursday’s crash, which killed at least 269 people.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Anupreeta Das |Showkat Nanda |Atul Loke
La masacre de 26 personas magnificó la alienación que se siente desde hace tiempo en una región que vive bajo una estricta vigilancia y tiene derechos democráticos limitados. Cachemira es muchas cosas. Es un territorio fronterizo en disputa por el que India y Pakistán han luchado durante más de tres cuartos de siglo, convirtiéndolo en una de las zonas más desgarradas y militarizadas del mundo.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Anupreeta Das |Showkat Nanda |Atul Loke
The terrorist massacre of 26 innocent people has magnified the alienation long felt in a region that lives under tight watch and has limited democratic rights. Kashmir is many things. It is a disputed borderland that India and Pakistan have fought over for more than three-quarters of a century, making it one of the world's most strife-torn and militarized zones. It is a Bollywood cinematographer's alpine dream, its fabled beauty and trauma providing grist for tales of love, longing and war.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Suhasini Raj |Mujib Mashal |Pragati K.B |Atul Loke
The repercussions from a terrorist attack led to painful scenes at the countries' border, as families with mixed citizenship were suddenly divided. Checking the passports of people waiting to cross into Pakistan from India on Sunday. Last week, India ordered nearly all Pakistani citizens to leave the country. Credit... One family had come to India for a daughter's marriage. Another came so their young children could meet their grandparents for the first time.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Mujib Mashal |Atul Loke
Nasir Shaikh, the sleeves of his suede jacket rolled up, used his phone camera as a pocket mirror to touch up his hair. Then he stepped onto the red carpet (it was blue, actually) and stood beneath banners dedicated to filmmaking giants like Chaplin, Scorsese and Spielberg. His own movies, exuberant do-it-yourself productions made with a simple camcorder and a ragtag cast, were about as far from big-budget blockbusters as could be.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Anupreeta Das |Hari Kumar |Atul Loke
Before she waded into the water to take a holy dip among the teeming throngs at the world's largest religious gathering, Draupadi Devi reached into her blouse and handed her husband a small pouch to safeguard. Inside was a slip of paper with his phone number scrawled on it, so she would have it if they got separated in the tangle of limbs and luggage that is the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival held every three years in one of four cities in India.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Anupreeta Das |Hari Kumar |Atul Loke
For Mr. Modi and his close ally Yogi Adityanath, the hard-line Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Maha Kumbh provides a marketing opportunity like no other. It is a platform to show off India's achievements - and therefore their own - before a rapt citizenry and a watching world. A giant poster of Mr. Modi and his close ally Yogi Adityanath in Prayagraj last month.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Suhasini Raj |Atul Loke
The family arrived at the ornately carved temple in western India bearing a special sweet of dried milk and clarified butter. It was a desperate offering for their son's safety: He had just crossed into the United States, only days before President Trump took office promising a fierce crackdown on illegal immigration. In their village in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the markers of migration are everywhere. Plaques on buildings trumpet donations from Indians in America.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Anupreeta Das |Saif Hasnat |Atul Loke
It is a daunting task for Bangladesh. But an unusual mix of young people and seasoned technocrats are determined to make the most of their opening. A defaced portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding father, in the capital, Dhaka, in November. His daughter Sheikh Hasina was ousted as prime minister this summer. It is a daunting task for Bangladesh. But an unusual mix of young people and seasoned technocrats are determined to make the most of their opening.
