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Aakash Hassan

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Aakash Hassan

    Brick by BRICS: Where countries in conflict seek common ground (opens the original)

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    Sept. 14, 2026, 2:31 p.m. ET | New Delhi Chinese President Xi Jinping stood beside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi over the weekend, six years after troops from their respective countries fought a deadly clash along the disputed Himalayan border. The setting was the BRICS summit – an annual meeting of developing nations and emerging economies, set up in 2009 as a counterpoint to the West. While there are certainly tensions between some of the 11 full members, President Xi’s firs

  2. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Aakash Hassan

    A rollback of rights, or an imperfect step forward? India amends transgender rights act. (opens the original)

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    On a hot evening at Jawaharlal Nehru University in south Delhi, students sit painting protest banners beneath rainbow flags. Verses of the Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib – long associated with protest movements across South Asia – play from a speaker nearby. They have gathered to oppose a new law that has ignited a debate that echoes in many parts of the world: Who has the authority to determine a person’s gender identity? The individual, a doctor, or the state? Since 2014, India has

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Aakash Hassan

    In Modi’s India, many felt dissent didn’t matter. Then came the ‘cockroaches.’ (opens the original)

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spent 12 years in office cultivating an image as a leader who does not bend to pressure. His government was steadfast in the face of multiple protests, quick to curb dissent, and, unlike its predecessors, did not ax ministers in times of crisis. Until this week. For the past couple of months, a youth movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) demanded Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over a string of exam paper leaks that affect

  4. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Aakash Hassan

    Modi’s greatest challenge yet? Delhi struggles to contain student unrest. (opens the original)

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    Long-simmering frustrations with corruption and youth unemployment have bubbled over into India’s streets. And in what is arguably the biggest test yet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, India’s young “cockroaches” aren’t backing down. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke weeks of silence over mass protests on Thursday, promising swift justice for repeated exam paper leaks that have eroded Indians’ confidence in their education system and fueled youth outrage. But his promise se

  5. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Aakash Hassan

    Aboard the train to Kashmir, a Monitor writer sees region at a crossroads (opens the original)

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    A new railway – one of the world’s most ambitious – is bringing trade and tourism to a disputed and long-isolated region in northern India. But reminders of Kashmir’s troubles are never far away. As morning rain gave way to a humid afternoon in Jammu, India, the city’s historic train station came to life with the familiar bustle of a South Asian transit hub. But its new concourse was more subdued. Passengers bound north for Kashmir had to cross an overhead bridge and pass through a second round

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