Sushmita Pathak
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They're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.
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Government officials and architects in India are preserving forgotten relics of Mumbai's history: ornate 19th century drinking fountains. Reviving them could help improve water access for the poor.
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Reporter Meera Devi, from the marginalized Dalit caste, is determined to get her community heard. She's featured in the award-winning documentary, Writing With Fire, which opens in the U.S. on Friday.
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India is reporting its largest spike in new coronavirus cases since November. Its health ministry said that several concerning variants have been detected.
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The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.
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Almost 150,000 people in India have died from complications of COVID-19, behind only the U.S. and Brazil. India plans to begin inoculating its population of 1.4 billion this month.
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Dr. Gagandeep Kang says the pandemic's toll on India has been much less than what she had feared. She reflects on what the country has learned over the past few months.
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The farmers are camped outside New Delhi to protest the laws. The farmers don't see deregulation of the farm sector as beneficial, and don't trust the government to compensate them.
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Air quality is awful in New Delhi in winter. Smoke from the fireworks of the Hindu festival of lights adds to the problem. That's a cause for concern during a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus.
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New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali is expected to make air quality even worse.