maharashtra

Finding food in Chandrapur

An up-close account of hunger, food insecurity and ineffective state policies from a district in central India.

| Dec 23, 2022

Celebrating chauvinism

The biopic on Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray is a cynical endorsement of violence.

| Feb 14, 2019

Just another suicide

After being hit locally, nationally and internationally, the farmers of Vidarbha are down — and some are out.

| Jul 02, 2006

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