News stories by Kumkum Chadha

NEW DELHI, January 27 (IPS) - It was Christmas eve: some two decades ago. Binalakshmi Nepram was a witness to the killing of a 27-year-old.

NEW DELHI, Mar 18 (IPS) - For Kikim*, it was the ides of May, instead of March, that was, in one sense, her undoing. She was looking forward to welcoming her baby, her first. But life took an unexpected turn, and things changed within a split second.

DELHI, Jan 07 (IPS) - History seems to be chasing Bangladesh even while the interim government is grappling with real issues of administering a country thrown into chaos.

NEW DELHI, India, Dec 10 (IPS) - Even as India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri reached Bangladesh amid strain in ties over attacks on Hindu minorities, he carried with him a bag of complaints: it sure was not a good will mission. It was one where India has focused on its discomfort, rather anger, over the persecution of Hindus under the new regime in Bangladesh.