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People walk through an informal settlement for trash segregators in Bangalore, India.

Waste collectors in Bangalore face discrimination and exploitation

Garbage segregators in India often have to migrate in search of work. Many in Bangalore, India, also face constant harassment from the police and local residents, often facing eviction from informal settlements if they can't afford to pay bribes.

Waste collectors in Bangalore face discrimination and exploitation
Activists of the youth wing of India's main opposition Congress party show slogans during a protest demanding the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah following last week's clashes between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in De

Indian policewoman describes the hazards of being a whistleblower

Indian policewoman describes the hazards of being a whistleblower
Volunteers crouch on the wet sand as they pick up trash from a beach near Mumbai's Versova jetty

This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup

This Mumbai lawyer inspired a massive beach cleanup
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Integrating technology too tightly with education presents its own kind of problems

Integrating technology too tightly with education presents its own kind of problems
@ShamiWitness account no longer exists on Twitter.

The man behind a top ISIS Twitter account lives in India

The man behind a top ISIS Twitter account lives in India
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How one photographer captures changing immigrant families

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's has focused her photography on twisting perceptions of immigration and identity in America. Her new project, called "Majority Minority," looks at the changes across generations of immigrant families.

How one photographer captures changing immigrant families
Bollywood playback singer Manna Dey at an award ceremony in 2007.

Bollywood singer Manna Dey dies at 94, but his songs keep living

Bollywood playback singer Manna Dey, an artist who holds legendary status within India's Bollywood movie industry, has passed away.

Bollywood singer Manna Dey dies at 94, but his songs keep living
One of a fleet of trucks in the Bangalore area that brings untreated sewage from homes to farms, to be used as fertilizer.

Recycled lunch: Using human waste to grow food, and fight climate change

Synthetic fertilizers contribute mightily to climate change. So now there's a growing push in India to return to the ancient practice of using human waste as fertilizer, but with modern sanitary safeguards.

Recycled lunch: Using human waste to grow food, and fight climate change

Happy New Year from Ordinary and Inspiring People in Bangalore, India

Happy New Year from Ordinary and Inspiring People in Bangalore, India

Why It's Not Easy to be Atheist in India

India may be the world's largest secular democracy but that doesn't mean it's easy to practice atheism there.Young atheists trying to gain more recognition say government policies and laws still exclude them and cultural acceptance is hard to come by.

Why It's Not Easy to be Atheist in India

Protestors want Indian temple to stop creating 'fake miracles'

Pilgrims by the thousands flock to the Sabarimala temple in India. There, they're treated to a light show they've been told is a divine miracle. But, in turns out, it was all faked, and a group of Indians wants the display to stop.

Protestors want Indian temple to stop creating 'fake miracles'

Haleem a Ramadan food that crosses religious boundaries in India

Ramadan just ended and with it the period of daylight fasting observed by most Muslims around the world. In India especially, the fast is often broken with a dish called haleem, a sort of meat porridge that manages to bridge the religious divide and appeal to all manners of Indians.

Haleem a Ramadan food that crosses religious boundaries in India

Intrigue surrounds sadly routine death of Indian law student

A law student in Bangalore died recently, and the newspapers have been filled with allegations of murder and honor killings. But upon closer inspection, there's no reason to believe it's not another suicide -- a scourge of Indian society.

Intrigue surrounds sadly routine death of Indian law student

Death of a Bangalore Law Student

Reporter Michael May follows the trail of the mysterious death of a law student in Bangalore, India. Local newspapers reported the young woman's death as an honor killing.

Death of a Bangalore Law Student

Remembering India's First Photojournalist Homai Vyarawalla

Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman press photographer, passed away last month at the age of 98.

Remembering India's First Photojournalist Homai Vyarawalla