India
Opinion
Tripologist
Airline to allow women to choose to avoid sitting next to men on flights
Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has become the first airline to allow women travellers to choose a seat next to another woman.
- by Michael Gebicki
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A-listers fly in as Asia’s richest man marries in the year’s most extravagant wedding
The four-day wedding reportedly has a guest list that includes former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, Kim Kardashian, Drake and David Beckham.
- by Rafiq Maqbool and Rajanish Kakade
Stampede at religious event in India kills more than 100 mostly women and children
Initial reports said organisers had permission to host about 5000 people, but more than 15,000 came for the event by the Hindu preacher.
- by Biswajeet Banerjee and Krutika Pathi
This is, arguably, the most popular dish in the world
When you’re talking about the favourite food of 1.4 billion people, you have a case for global dominance.
- by Ben Groundwater
‘Like Venice in high season’: The Indian city that’s going off
It’s always a risk to revisit a first love – but a return to the jewel in India’s crown is a revelation.
- by Brook Turner
Opinion
Opinion
When the people speak in the world’s most populous nation, we win too
For too long the India sceptics have questioned its democracy. This election should give them cause to rethink.
- by Barry O'Farrell
Updated
World elections
Modi’s party wins Indian election but with smaller majority
India’s opposition Congress party called the opposition alliance’s strong showing in the polls a “win for democracy”.
- by YP Rajesh and Shilpa Jamkhandikar
Analysis
World elections
Modi, who casts himself as ‘sent by God’, loses his aura of invincibility
The once-dominant opposition has made electoral gains on the government over issues like unemployment, social justice and Modi’s ties to India’s billionaires.
- by Mujib Mashal and Alex Travelli
Desperate for water, some Delhi residents are prepared to kill
The streets feel like an oven. Driving a water truck is dangerous work when water is rationed: people will do anything to quench their family’s thirst.
- by Sameer Yasir
Several children killed after Indian amusement park inferno, police say
A major fire broke out on Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 27 people, police and media reports said.
Why India’s Shekhawati region will leave you gasping
More than 20 villages scattered across this part of Rajasthan have painted Shekhawati havelis, the largest open-air art gallery in India.
- by Michael Gebicki