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Spotlight: India's Big Bet On New Banknotes

India's startling announcement last month to swap out most banknotes in circulation — possibly the biggest currency change in decades anywhere in the world — went largely unnoticed outside ...

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For Indian Moviegoers, Forced Patriotism Is Daily Feature

India's Supreme Court made it compulsory to play the national anthem in cinemas. And you better s...

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India, Where Baby Hatches Save Newborn Girls

In India's patriarchal society, there's a cultural tendency to favor boys, which leads to too man...

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A Photographer's Exception

I'm an analog kind of photographer: I started taking pictures in the 1950s, when film was still somewhat expensive — meaning that even though I now own a digital camera, I've never really ...

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Spotlight: The Cult Of Amma

-Farewell- Foreigners who visit Tamil Nadu, a southern state in India that's home to stunning Hindu temples and a robust economy, would often puzzle over the matronly woman draped in a sari ...

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Long Lines, Black Markets: How India's Cash Crunch Looks On Street Level

NEW DELHI — I am outside the Reserve Bank of India building in New Delhi. It's 8 a.m. The bank opens at 9 a.m. but more than 300 people have already queued up here. Among them is ...

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India, A Dumping Ground For Rich World's Toxic Electronic Waste

SEEMAPURI — In this neighborhood on the outskirts of Delhi, electronic scrap keeps growing. Piles and piles of electronic waste or "e-waste" litter the narrow alleys here ...

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Toxic Air And 300 Million Kids

You'd want to be just about anywhere but the Indian capital of New Delhi today. Smog choked the city and ...