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In India, climate change affects women's health
France 24

In India, climate change affects women's health

Fisherwomen in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans grapple with complex health issues and are very hindered by their lack of access to healthcare.

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Urvashi Sarkar 28 Nov 2023 • 1 min read
Beyond disaster and wildlife in the Sundarbans
People's Archive of Rural India

Beyond disaster and wildlife in the Sundarbans

A quarterly magazine on the Sundarbans defies mainstream media's stereotypes about the region.

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Urvashi Sarkar 6 Nov 2023 • 5 min read
The Rohingya Refugees Who Show Life In Bangladesh Through Instagram
Boomlive

The Rohingya Refugees Who Show Life In Bangladesh Through Instagram

Instagram is their window to the world and a means of asserting their existence.

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Urvashi Sarkar 14 Oct 2023 • 5 min read
India's tough talk on Kashmir belies its lobbying for US support
Middle East Eye

India's tough talk on Kashmir belies its lobbying for US support

Modi wants Indian citizens to believe he will not brook western interference in domestic affairs. India's extensive lobbying efforts in Washington suggest a different reality

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Urvashi Sarkar 21 Jun 2023 • 4 min read
Hunting for crabs in the shadow of the Bengal tiger
People's Archive of Rural India

Hunting for crabs in the shadow of the Bengal tiger

Pushed deeper into the mangrove forests, fisherwomen in the Sundarbans work in constant fear of tigers

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Urvashi Sarkar 17 Jun 2023 • 7 min read
Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster?
Al Jazeera

Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster?

India has barely half the insurance amount required by law for its current nuclear plants, and has many more plants in the works.

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Urvashi Sarkar 21 Apr 2023 • 7 min read
The Curious Case of the Democratic Party of India
Caravan Magazine

The Curious Case of the Democratic Party of India

The Indian Embassy likely used a dubious entity to lobby US Congresspersons after the abrogation of Article 370 - US government documents show

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Urvashi Sarkar 10 Feb 2023 • 1 min read
Why nuclear industry's comeback hopes rest on very thin ice
Newsclick

Why nuclear industry's comeback hopes rest on very thin ice

Nuclear power might not be the way out of the ongoing global energy crisis.

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Urvashi Sarkar 12 Jan 2023 • 10 min read
Is India the Arms Exporter it Claims to Be?
The India Forum

Is India the Arms Exporter it Claims to Be?

The government's desire to project India as a significant defence exporter are more apparent on paper than in the order books.

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Urvashi Sarkar 3 Dec 2022 • 6 min read
French nuclear power reactors in India: Are they worth the wait (and cost)?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

French nuclear power reactors in India: Are they worth the wait (and cost)?

Why is the Indian government insistent on purchasing French EPRs which have a record of being over budget and massively delayed?

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Urvashi Sarkar 2 Sep 2022 • 7 min read
Review: India’s “Rocket Boys” series fetishizes science-and the atomic bomb-in a dangerous way
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Review: India’s “Rocket Boys” series fetishizes science-and the atomic bomb-in a dangerous way

While Rocket Boys makes for engaging drama, does it tell this story with due diligence to scientific and historical facts? Unfortunately, the answer is resoundingly in the negative.

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Urvashi Sarkar 14 Jun 2022 • 4 min read
Bipolar disorder: The group changing attitudes about the conditions
BBC

Bipolar disorder: The group changing attitudes about the conditions

Living with bipolar disorder is not easy. Many people do not understand the condition and patients suffer discrimination as a result. An online community in India is now trying to change such attitudes.

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Urvashi Sarkar 14 Jun 2022 • 4 min read
India’s refusal to side with the West should not be interpreted as a revival of its non-alignment policy
City University of London

India’s refusal to side with the West should not be interpreted as a revival of its non-alignment policy

India’s continuing aggressive and muscular foreign policy, in line with the vision of its right-wing government whose authoritarian tendencies are increasingly evident, at home and abroad

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Urvashi Sarkar 6 Jun 2022 • 4 min read
Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it’s selling spyware too
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it’s selling spyware too

Prime Minister Modi’s silence through the political storm around Pegasus and what is being called India’s Watergate moment is conspicuous

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Urvashi Sarkar 4 Apr 2022 • 5 min read
'I didn't want others to know I had miscarried'
People's Archive of Rural India

'I didn't want others to know I had miscarried'

Saline river water, intensifying climate change and poor public healthcare is playing havoc with women's health in the Sundarbans.

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Urvashi Sarkar 10 Mar 2022 • 8 min read
Is a shadow presidency fueling the gas-prices fire in oil-rich Kazakhstan?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Is a shadow presidency fueling the gas-prices fire in oil-rich Kazakhstan?

A citizens' uprising takes Kazakhstan by storm. Socio-economic inequalities and neglect of workers' rights might be at play.

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Urvashi Sarkar 1 Feb 2022 • 4 min read
India has long suppressed antinuclear activism. Still, activists persist
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

India has long suppressed antinuclear activism. Still, activists persist

India's nuclear programme has a history of encountering stiff resistance.

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Urvashi Sarkar 17 Dec 2021 • 6 min read
What’s known—and not known—about India’s nuclear weapons budget
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

What’s known—and not known—about India’s nuclear weapons budget

India provides precious little information on nuclear weapons expenditure thus raising questions on accountability and transparency.

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Urvashi Sarkar 17 Nov 2021 • 6 min read
Think tanks in India and the United States and the alignment of state and corporate goals
City University of London

Think tanks in India and the United States and the alignment of state and corporate goals

India and the United States have maintained their ties through wide-ranging means and mechanisms including think tanks supported by corporations and government.

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Urvashi Sarkar 7 Sep 2021 • 12 min read
Fissile
nuclear

Fissile

India has big plans for new nuclear power plants. What does it plan to do with the old ones?

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Urvashi Sarkar 5 Mar 2021 • 18 min read
Parent Entity: The Jaishankars blur the lines between the ministry of external affairs and Reliance-funded ORF
Caravan Magazine

Parent Entity: The Jaishankars blur the lines between the ministry of external affairs and Reliance-funded ORF

India's most prominent think tank launches its Washington operations. The son of India's External Affairs Minister is in the thick of it.

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Urvashi Sarkar 1 Jan 2021 • 1 min read
Getting away with murder
thakur-foundation.org

Getting away with murder

A study on the killings of and attacks on journalists in India, 2014–2019, and justice delivery in these cases.

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Urvashi Sarkar 31 Dec 2019 • 2 min read
Sundarbans: Not a blade of grass grew
People's Archive of Rural India

Sundarbans: Not a blade of grass grew

People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, are facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.

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Urvashi Sarkar 10 Sep 2019 • 11 min read
Cheerleader and referee: Appearance of conflicts of interest at microfinance regulators
Global Ground Media

Cheerleader and referee: Appearance of conflicts of interest at microfinance regulators

The lack of independence of microfinance self-regulatory organisations (SROs) in India

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Urvashi Sarkar 5 Aug 2019 • 7 min read
Assessments show problems remain: are paper exercises sufficient to bring about change?
Global Ground Media

Assessments show problems remain: are paper exercises sufficient to bring about change?

Are code of conduct assessments of microfinance institutions just on paper or do they really work?

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Urvashi Sarkar 24 Jul 2019 • 3 min read
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