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Crime

I Was Forced Into India's Sex Trade by My Boyfriend at 15; Here's How I Finally Escaped
Thousands of women and children are sex-trafficked into Indian brothels every year. This is the story of one of them who managed to escape.
Cheena Kapoor
6.27.19
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Madhya Pradesh Just Approved a Law to Punish Cow Vigilantes
'Cow protectors' found guilty of “mobocracy” can now be punished with a jail term of up to five years.
Shamani Joshi
6.27.19
Question Of The Day

Question of the Day: Why Has India’s Drug Use Gone Up?
The UN World Drug Report 2019 estimates that drug usage numbers have spiked up by 30 percent. We asked young Indians why they think this happened.
Shamani Joshi
6.26.19
LGBTQ

Three Artists Tell Us What It’s Like To Be Queer, Muslim and Pakistani
Aziz Sohail, Abdullah Qureshi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr are working together to give more visibility to the voices from the LGBTQ community of their country.
Pallavi Pundir
6.26.19
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Hindu Extremists Push a Muslim off a Train, Attack Another for Not Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’
Violence against Muslims continues even as India rejects a US report saying religious intolerance has increased.
Shamani Joshi
6.25.19
climate change

Indian 'Cult' Blames Climate Change on Capitalists and Jains, Gains Thousands of Followers
“All the deaths [of nature and humans] happening around us are because of the evildoing of these kinds of people.”
Pallavi Pundir
6.25.19
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Enemy Spies Are Catfishing Indian Army Officers for Information On Instagram
International spy agents are posing as women on social media to extract sensitive information from military personnel.
Shamani Joshi
6.25.19
Art

Who Profits When Pain Becomes Art?
A survivor writes about seeing her story reproduced without her consent in Andrea Bowers' #MeToo installation.
Dilara O'Neil
6.24.19
video

The Casteless Collective Is Breaking Caste Boundaries With Its Music
They’re singing about beef curry, sewage cleaners and reservations in a bid to “make a casteless generation”.
VICE Staff
6.24.19
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Villagers in Gujarat Delayed a Crocodile Rescue Because They Wanted to Worship It
Despite warnings of crocodile attacks being on the rise, the villagers felt that since the croc wandered into a temple, it was ‘auspicious’.
Shamani Joshi
6.24.19
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The Dharavi Slum in Mumbai Just Beat Taj Mahal as India's Top ‘Travellers’ Choice’
Slum tourism might have sparked a global debate, but it looks like it’s winning the travel game.
Shamani Joshi
6.21.19
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Some Dogs Did Yoga With the Indian Army for International Yoga Day
They don’t call it downward dog for nothing.
Shamani Joshi
6.21.19
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