Sushmita Pathak

Undark Magazine • 13th September 2023

A Locally-Made HPV Vaccine in India Faces Hesitancy and Delays

A new HPV vaccine may drastically change cervical cancer management in India and other middle and lower-income countries. But the government rollout has hit delays, and healthcare workers face hesitancy.

WIRED • 19th June 2023

Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant

Indian cities, afflicted by rising temperatures and poor air quality, are becoming hot spots of ozone pollution, which has proven a difficult problem to fix.

The World from PRX • 15th June 2023

Hip-hop artists in India call out caste discrimination

In India, a new wave of Dalit artists are using hip-hop to stand up to one of the world's oldest forms of discrimination: caste

the Guardian • 19th May 2023

Why are India’s lions increasingly swapping the jungle for the beach?

The last of the world’s Asiatic lions live in Gujarat state, but as the apex predators outgrow their forest reserve, they are moving to the seaside

National Geographic • 31st March 2023

India’s 5 million stray cows are sacred—and a growing nuisance

Stray cattle—most of them abandoned males—are rampant throughout India, where they can't legally be killed.

New Lines Magazine • 18th January 2023

India Loses Its Sense of Humor

Threatened by hardline nationalists, the country’s stand-up comedians increasingly steer clear of religion and politics

BBC Future • 20th December 2022

The vegan leather made from India’s waste flowers

An Indian start-up has found an unusual use for the tonnes of flowers which clog the Ganges: turning them into vegan leather.

New Scientist • 6th December 2022

What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope means for astronomy

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally started making observations. If it succeeds, we could one day put a much larger liquid telescope on the moon

Foreign Policy • 20th October 2022

India’s Military Revamp Is Angering Nepal

The repercussions of Agnipath are also being felt beyond India’s borders

Reasons to be Cheerful • 15th July 2022

The Address of the Future

In India, a new way of identifying where people live is changing the lives of thousands whose homes never officially existed.

The Christian Science Monitor • 7th July 2022

India needs daughters. Families want sons. What’s a ‘balanced’ approach?

The Indian government has long tried to balance the country’s male and female population. Some believe families should have the same right.

NPR.org • 29th April 2022

This goat and lentil stew is a beloved Ramadan tradition in Hyderabad, India

A peek at how Hyderabad's lip-smacking Ramadan haleem is made

The Christian Science Monitor • 14th March 2022

To society, they’re married. To India’s courts, they’re roommates.

The struggle to legalize same-sex unions in a country that loves the concept of marriage