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Political snippets: Rudd’s Indian diplomacy to be tested
How global warming could ignite an India-Pakistan war
The always heated relations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir could flare up into a raging blaze if climate change worsens Pakistan’s droughts, as both countries battle for access to the region’s glacial water supply.
Political snippets: Libs need to stop playing by the Government’s rules
Richard Farmer reckons the Libs should start talking hospitals and health, public servants and politicians can learn from Graham Richardson, and India might commit to reduce its greenhouse emissions.
Why Islamic extremists hate India
India doesn’t have a single soldier fighting in Afghanistan — so why are suicide bombers targetting the Indian Embassy in Kabul? Salil Tripathi explains the long and complex relationship between India and the Islamic world.
Indian students are standing up for their rights
Indian students in Australia are standing up for their rights, arguing they have been exploited by the education industry, which is happy to take their money but has shown little interest in their welfare. Geoff Maslen reports.
Indian students and Immigration: a case of too many cooks …
In the second of a three-part series, Geoff Maslen looks at immigration law and the stampede for visas by foreign students. What happens now to students who thought that would qualify for residency?
Green energy helps power India’s growth
India may get criticism for its lack of green credentials, but its entrepreneurs and investors are popping up in green tourism and the clean energy industry, in search of the fertile green dollar.
India has a cow over tweeting pollie’s cattle call
There are few more sacred cows in India than, well, cows, as India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor learned the hard way after a throwaway cow-related pun on Twitter caused a nation-wide media storm.
Question Time: is a long-winded answer better than a punch in the face?
Let’s turn to other democracies for inspiring tips on how to keep Question Time proceedings moving in a civilised way. Best to avoid South Korea though, writes Crikey intern Nina Nicoll.
Spiderman, Captain America… Ravana the 10-headed demon king?
Fresh from acquiring Marvel Comics, Disney is now eyeing off the lucrative market for Indian comic books and cartoons. Based on ancient Hindu mythology, the stories are apparently big business with the world’s 900-odd million Hindus.
Why Indians can’t write good resumes
India has the second-largest English-speaking population in the world, so why are so many highly educated, English-speaking, job-seeking Indians a little… “CV-challenged”? Saritha Rai investigates.
Population boom bursts water demands
China and India are two growing super powers, who currently use less than the global average for water. However, as their population boom, so will their need for fresh water. Hence their working relationship regarding the health of the Himalayan glaciers.
Why China will attack India
China will attack India by 2012, says Bharat Verma: the country needs a military victory to unite its fractured population, and pacifist India is the softest target.
Will East Africa become the new India?
You know internet use is rocky when pirate attacks and damaged sea cables can stop connections and only 5 in every 100 people use the internet. But with the arrival of broadband to Tanzania, there is talk of East Africa becoming the new outsourcing hot spot.
India: Lower the birthrate by watching more TV
India’s health minister has proposed a new plan to tackle the country’s over-population problem by hooking every village up to electricity so people spend more time watching TV, and less time having sex.
Australia and India: an uneasy relationship
Australia’s relationship with India has been difficult long before the racist attacks started against Indian students. But, do we now need them more than they need us?
Sugar not so sweet for Indian farmers
Once a major export good for India, farmers abandoned growing sugar due to government restrictions. Now, prices have soared but no one is growing it.
25 years on, still waiting for justice in Bhopal
25 years after the world’s biggest industrial disaster occurred at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, the company and its former head, Warren Anderson, continue to evade authorities and justice remains elusive for the 556,000 injured 20,000 killed.
Jagger mines Church of England for help
Celebs like Bianca Jagger and Joanna Lumley are calling on the Church of England, a shareholder in Vedanta Resources, to stop a planned bauxite mine in India on a sacred site.
Legalising homosexuality in India: the big picture
India recently overturned its 148-year-old law that criminalised homosexuality. But has it made it any easier to be gay in Goa or bisexual in Bihar? Human rights activist Arvind Narrain weighs in.
Why can’t India grasp the Inconvenient Truth?
The idea that gradual, modest climatic change is automatically catastrophic for everyone is silly, says Bruce Walker. But things aren’t looking good for India. So why isn’t the government doing more?
MPs to India: an unofficial parliamentary delegation to visit the Dalai Lama
What does one give a simple Buddhist monk for his 74th birthday? The Federal Member for Fremantle Melissa Parke writes on her recent travels to India.
Indian court decriminalises same-sex sex
India has become “the 127th country to take the guilt out of homosexuality”, write Manoj Mitta and Smriti Singh, by updating a colonial-era law.
India: we’re racist, too
Before pointing fingers at Australia, Indians should look at our own racial prejudices, says Debarshi Dasgupta.
Tension mounts on the China-India border
Territory on the Sino-Indian border has always been disputed, but things have really started to heat up in recent years, with both sides beefing up their troops and infrastructure. What will happen if it all boils over?
