by Shefali Malhotra | 25 Feb 2025 | Culture, India, Women
It’s been a decade-long journey from film school to red carpet for Mumbai director Payal Kapadia. If you want to follow her path she’s got some advice. Director Payal Kapadia at 2024 Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of the film “All We...
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 27 Jan 2025 | Environment, Health and Wellness, India, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows, World
Almost 60,000 die from snakebite each year in India, but only one facility is producing the venom needed to make the antivenom. A herpetologist milks the venom out of a snake at Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC) in Nairobi, Kenya, 5 April 2024....
by M. Reddy, L.Verma, A. Nanjayan and G. Leander | 24 Jan 2025 | Asia, Environment, India, Student Posts, VIBGYOR, Youth Voices
How India manages the extreme weather events that are becoming more common with climate change can be a lesson for the world. Rescuers on their second day of mission following Tuesday’s landslides wait to cross a river at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state,...
by Anoushka Arbhi | 21 Jan 2025 | Environment, India, Student Posts, VIBGYOR, Youth Voices
With temperature inversion and climate change, the joyful meaning of a festival dissipates in the air we can’t breathe. Fireworks during a Diwali celebration. (Credit: Getty Images) This article, by high school student Anoushka Arbhi was produced out of News...
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 28 Nov 2024 | Health and Wellness, India, Sports, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Weight lifting has all kinds of health benefits. But many woman in India find going to the gym takes an inner strength they didn’t think they had. Mirabai Chanu Saikhom of India competes during the women’s 49kg weightlifting event at the 2024 Summer...
by Shefali Malhotra | 25 Nov 2024 | India, Journalism, Media Literacy, Politics
The Indian government seeks to establish a system to weed out disinformation. But it seems targeted at only posts that knock those in power. Anti-government messages get stamped with a disinformation warning on a social media thread. (Illustration by News Decoder)...
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 10 Oct 2024 | Environment, Health and Wellness, India, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Online sales of pesticides helps farmers in places far from suppliers. Can we keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them? A person pulls up an online site for buying pesticides. (Illustration by News Decoder) Warning: This article contains...
by John West | 25 Jun 2024 | Decoders, History, India, Politics
Elections jolted the ambitions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling party. But they may have breathed fresh life into India’s flagging democracy. Supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a bike rally campaign for the general...