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Meet Kalpana Saroj, India's Dalit Queen
VICE co-founder Shane Smith meets real-life slum-dog millionaire Kalpana Saroj, who was once a Dalit at the very bottom of the Indian caste system and earned only pennies a day in a sweatshop. She eventually became a talented tailor, making $5 every day, and then miraculously rose through the ranks to become the CEO of a multimillion-dollar steel company. Full story
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I Lost My Mind in Kashmir
Being trapped in a war zone with nothing but hash, opium, criminals, and your sister for company can really fuck with your sense of serenity. Full story
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Django Django – 'WOR' (Official Video)
Django Django became obsessed with the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad. So, naturally, they asked Noisey if we’d be up for traveling to India and standing in the middle of large lumps of speeding metal to film a video for their track "WOR." We happily obliged… Full story
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Your Clothes Are Making Indian Cotton Farmers Commit Suicide
In the same month that 125 Bangladeshi fabric workers died in a factory fire, a film aiming to expose the tragedy of unrestricted globalized fashion called 'Dirty White Gold' reached its fundraising target of $27,000. The film begins by examining the hundreds of thousands of Indi… Full story
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Our Constipation Tour of India
The Indian tourism industry has become so efficient at safely shepherding Westerners past the country’s landmark sights that pale-skinned travelers like ourselves could glide by easily without being touched by more than a few crumbs of dirt. Full story
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The Burned and Bloodied Sex Workers of South Mumbai
An estimated 100,000 sex workers currently earn a living working in the brothels of South Mumbai’s red-light districts. Most of them are not there voluntarily, but, rather, have been sold into sex work, sometimes by a relative or trusted family friend. Life within the red-light d… Full story
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India's Street Doctors Will Bleed the Sickness Right Out of You
Veteran bloodletter Mohammad Gyas watches as his son slices open the hands and feet of the sick with single-use razor blades in the gardens of a mosque in Old Delhi. A few feet away, a middle-aged arthritis sufferer leaps energetically onto a brick platform. Springing back down a… Full story
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Wait, Are These Taxi Drivers Sleeping or Dead?
Hailing a cab in Mumbai can freak you the fuck out. Full story
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Fightland
The Ultimate Fighter's Passage to India
The Elite Football League of India launched this summer to yawning indifference from audiences in the sub-continent and curious derision from observers in the US. Importing American football—shoulder pads, helmets, down markers, and all—to a country where even rugby is a fifth-ru… Full story
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Shiva’s Wedding
Love (and Marriage) in the Himalayas
We’d been in India for a month, and it looked like the wedding wasn't going to happen. The last two times I’d been married my brides had been enthusiastic—they were insistent, even. Now I was getting married for a third time to a woman who didn’t want to marry me by a Tibetan Bud… Full story
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People