With 277 million Internet users, India surpassed the United States in 2015 as the world’s second-most connected nation behind China, according to a report from the KPCB law firm. The firm estimated total global Internet use at 3 billion people, or 42 percent of the world’s population. India and other developing nations are adding Internet…
RAJKOT: A 22-year-old college girl from Ahmedabad has exposed the scourge that government agencies have conveniently turned a blind eye to. Jharna Joshi, a bachelors of business administration (BBA) student, undertook a covert operation to rescue as many as 111 child labourers from one of the biggest ceramic units in Morbi. The children, of whom…
Many of my Indian American friends, generally a well-informed group, are often surprised to learn that their resident Indian cousins don’t have the kind of freedom of speech they routinely enjoy in the United States. They assume quite reasonably that in India too, just like in the United States—both celebrated as exemplars of robust democracies—there…