Amana Fontanella-Khan

There’s this rampant line of thought where we take out the ‘religion’ factor from everything and see the atrocity inflicted on Asifa Bano as just a crime committed against a little girl.

The Gulabi Gang was borne of a new hope: of a more retributive system of justice, stepping in where the law, embroiled in corruption and controversy, could not.

Women share a complicated relationship with the colour pink. To discard it, or to embrace it, is a struggle between conforming and freedom.

Depression is a complicated and debilitating illness. To put it into a form where those who have experienced it are able to identify with it and those who have never had it, to learn something from it, calls for incredible talent.

Cleric who leads global Hizmet movement from exile in Pennyslvania, US, is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and remains influential in Turkish affairs

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It’s been five years since European governments tried to fight the H1N1 pandemic and wasted a colossal $3 billion of taxpayer money in doing so.…

You can’t understand sexual violence in India without understanding caste.

FICTION/POETRY All That Is, by James Salter (Knopf; 290 pages; $26.95). Salter’s latest novel spans the second half of the 20th century and shows that few can match his depictions of life’s physical pleasures, the sheer sensual delight of being in this world. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie …

Many Roma have moved from places like Slovakia to Western Europe, but they find discrimination there too

Pink Sari RevolutionA Tale of Women and Power in IndiaBy Amana Fontanella-Khan(Norton; 284...

This article is excerpted from Pink Sari Revolution.

Meet the foul-mouthed rapper who explains India’s real estate bubble -- and its rape crisis.

The fate of India’s women will rely on the uniting of rural and urban activism — and there are signs of hope that this is happening.

A spiritual man who practices yoga daily built a house on a slope overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a village about three hours from the city.

The ultimate Indian male fantasy involves horizontal gymnastics with an actress from Bollywood or the smaller regional film industries such as...

You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now a...

Vogue India’s April cover story proclaimed that it’s time ‘to say we love, and always have loved, the gorgeous color of Indian skin.’ But busting the myth that whiter skin color is more beautiful will be hard.

In India’s wealthiest city of Mumbai, streetsweepers can be found panning for gold amid the sewage pipes in front of goldsmiths’ houses. It’s one of many informal recycling enterprises in India.