On Jan. 22, a temple of Lord Ram will open its doors in Ayodhya, in northern India. The temple stands where the Babri mosque once existed, before it was torn down by a Hindu mob. The occasion marks a victory for Hindus and a sorrowful reminder for Muslims of the ongoing tensions between the two groups in a Hindu-majority country.
In Ayodhya in northern India, a new temple stands in the spot where a mosque stood until December 1992, when it was torn down by a Hindu mob. The attack sparked riots across South Asia killing thousands and is considered the most violent incident since India's partition. Sushmita Pathak reports on what the new Ram temple means for local Hindus and Muslims, and Indian politics.
Getting visas to travel to the US has never been easy for people from certain nationalities. But pandemic closures made visa processing delays extend to a year or more, causing people to miss important family events, or have to delay work or study in the US. Now consulates are staffed up again, but as Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi, substantial delays remain because of
In India, artists are using hip-hop to stand up to one of the world's oldest forms of discrimination: caste. In recent years, a new wave of Dalit artists is wielding some of the same musical elements that Black artists began channeling decades ago to call out prejudice and injustice. As part of The World's Planet Hip Hop series, Sushmita Pathak reported from Delhi on this
In India, matters like marriage, divorce and inheritance are governed by a set of laws which are distinct for different faiths. They're called "personal laws." Some of them are seen as misogynistic, and for years, various groups, including women's activists, have been lobbying for the laws to be scrapped. But others say that doing away with them would violate religious