Mansi Choksi
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Two Young Women Fell in Love Where That’s Forbidden. Then Their Families Tore Them Apart.
Relatives shamed and threatened the couple. It wasn’t enough to break their bond. → Read More
This Indian Cop Took Down a Massive IRS Call-Center Scam –
Millions of Americans have fallen for a ruse claiming they owe back taxes and must pay immediately. On the other side of the globe, one dogged inspector finally delivered justice. → Read More
This Cop Made It His Mission to Fight Islamophobia. Then Anti-Muslim Violence Hit His Own Family. –
Officer Humayun Kabir builds bridges between Bangladeshi-Americans and the NYPD. When his aunt was murdered in cold blood, the struggle hit home. → Read More
An Imam Was Shot Dead on the Streets of Queens. We Spoke to the Man Who Washed His Friend’s Bullet-Ridden Body. –
The brazen murder of Alauddin Akonjee terrified New York’s Muslim community. As his chaplain prepared the holy man for burial, he wondered what comes next. → Read More
Inside the Mall at the Center of China's Transformation of East Africa
Thousands of Chinese entrepreneurs, following a trail of billions of dollars in state-led investment, poured into Uganda, and Mukwano Mall was turning into a self-sustaining universe designed for them. → Read More
Sect’s Death Ritual Raises Constitutional Conflict in India
Citing a right to religious practice, members of the Jain faith are protesting a ruling barring santhara, a fast to the death that a judge declared a form of suicide. → Read More
Cow Retirement Homes Are Booming in India — Here's Why
Hindu nationalist groups fighting for the protection of India's cows have succeeded in expanding statutes against slaughter, which have increased cattle smuggling as well as the need for cattle shelters. → Read More
Kuwait Anti-Terror Program Prepares to Harvest the DNA of Citizens and Foreigners
The unprecedented plan to collect DNA samples from everyone living in Kuwait has rankled privacy advocates and raised human rights concerns. → Read More
This Tamil Rap Group Is Challenging Corruption and Inequality in India
The South Dandies Swaraj are a hip-hop group in Mumbai using their music to talk about street life, slumlords, prostitution, recycling, heartbreak, and Tamil pride. → Read More
Women in Uganda Can't Use Toilets Without Fear of Disease or Rape
In Uganda, only 19 percent of the population has access to toilets that are not shared and that protect them from direct contact with wasteâconditions which poses a serious threat to women's health and safety. → Read More
India's Government Doesn't Seem to Care That Husbands Can Legally Rape Their Wives
Indian officials have rejected the urging of the UN and human rights activists that they amend the country's penal code to make sexual assault within marriage a criminal offense. → Read More
Dubai Is Using Deadly Falcons to Control Its Pigeon Problem
Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—In 2010, an English-language newspaper in Dubai ran a cover story titled Pigeon Impossible: Rats With Wings. “Pigeons have become a… → Read More
Heroin Trafficking from Pakistan Into India Is Crippling an Entire Generation
Addiction along the border has exploded, reflecting a faltering economy and the effects of US policy in Afghanistan, where more of the opiate trade is moving through Pakistan and India. → Read More
India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq
The apparent online recruitment of four Indian Muslims to join the fight in Iraq has shocked their home country, which had believed that it was immune from such defections. → Read More
Three Sentenced to Death in India for Gang-Rape
The men were sentenced under the strict provisions of a new law in India that has caused unease even among some women’s advocates. → Read More
5 Convicted in Gang-Rape Case That Shocked Mumbai
The men were found guilty Thursday of assaulting a photojournalist and a call-center operator in an abandoned mill building last August. → Read More
Before Elections, Mumbai Snack Turns Into a Political Hot Potato
The Shiv Sena, the Hindu nationalist party that dominates the city’s government, is quietly helping voters set up stalls to sell the street food vada pav in return for their support. → Read More
In Mumbai Case, a Group of Assault Suspects Had Little Fear of the Law
The details of a gang rape case in Mumbai reinforce the notion that rape remains a largely invisible crime in India. → Read More