Inside the US Government's War on Tech Support Scammers
The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.
The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.
Nate Anderson Ars Technica May 2014 15min Permalink
How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.
Rollo Romig New York Times Magazine May 2014 20min Permalink
How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.
Vibeke Venema BBC Mar 2014 10min Permalink
An essay on BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and the battle against caste in India.
Arundhati Roy The Caravan Feb 2014 1h15min Permalink
“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”
Ilan Greenberg Modern Farmer Dec 2013 10min Permalink
How the next generation of Indian women could break the country’s cycle of early motherhood and forced marriage.
Meera Subramanian VQR Feb 2014 30min Permalink
A love story.
Mischa Berlinski Harper's Nov 2007 35min Permalink
How a self-taught doctor from Delhi cornered the black market in kidneys, building one of the world’s most lucrative organ-trading rings, until it all came crashing down.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Discover Apr 2010 Permalink
On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.
Dana Liebelson Mother Jones Nov 2013 15min Permalink
The rise and fall of a friendship between three Indian women.
"We were goddesses. Meena, Annie, and Nayantara. Even our names were like heroines. Meena and Annie had known each other since they were 5. I met them in seventh standard. Though we never said it aloud, we knew that three beauties had more power than two or one. Like the Hindu gods. Or all those pop groups. Like the Wilson Phillips. We liked the Wilson Phillips. We pretended to like the fat one but heart of hearts we didn’t."
Nisha Susan n+1 Nov 2013 20min Permalink
On the lives of the men who gang-raped a woman on a Delhi bus last year, the life of their victim, and the people left out of India’s growing prosperity.
Jason Burke The Guardian Sep 2013 30min Permalink
On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.
William Dalrymple The Brookings Institue Jun 2013 10min Permalink
A trip to a pepper-eating contest in remote India.
Mary Roach Smithsonian Jun 2013 30min Permalink
Desire and dental surgery in Northern India.
His father leaned back on his hands and tilted his face to the sun. Daniel bent over his cushion. In the habit of telling The Number his thoughts, he had already begun to narrate for her his feelings about the woman."
Amie Barrodale Vice Jan 2013 15min Permalink
A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.
Rolf Potts Perceptive Travel Dec 2005 10min Permalink
Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.
Shree Paradkar The Toronto Star Jan 2013 25min Permalink
A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.
In the slums adjacent to Mumbai’s airport.
Katherine Boo New Yorker Feb 2009 25min Permalink
Separated from his older brother at a train, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. In his 20s, living in Australia, he began his search for his birth home armed with nothing but hazy memories and Google Earth.
David Kushner Vanity Fair Oct 2012 20min Permalink
Westerners’ spiritual quests in India gone wrong.
Scott Carney Details Sep 2012 15min Permalink
In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.
Lhendup G Bhutia Open Aug 2012 10min Permalink
The story of booze and Bangalore.
Raghu Karnad The Caravan Jul 2012 15min Permalink
The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.
The same forces that put his family in the slum also gave him the golf course on the other side of the wall, and the teachers and sponsors, and the strange ability to hit a ball with a club. But it still doesn't make sense. Sometimes it seems as if fate is wrestling with itself, making sure the circumstances of his birth are always conspiring to take away whatever gifts might allow him to escape it. He lives in two worlds, each one pulling away from the other. Anil is in the middle, trying to keep his balance.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2011 25min Permalink
On the arrival of Formula 1 in India.
Mehboob Jeelani The Caravan Nov 2011 2h15min Permalink