UDIT KULSHRESTHA
An Indian photojournalist in Delhi.
Photojournalism, Photography, Reportage, Conflict, Gender issues, ethnic violence, Culture, Portraits, Portraiture
PROJECTS
bloombergquint.com
Watch Out for India’s Next Generation of Tycoons
(Bloomberg) -- As India’s richest men hit their 60s and beyond, succession questions about the next generation of tycoons will increasingly emerge in a country where business is still dominated by family-run enterprises.
Bloomberg has profiled some of these young guns of corporate India, selecting those who are 35 and under, based in India, have a public profile, and whose billionaire fathers are valued at more than $2 billion. Some have started their own ventures and avoided their fathers’ s...
BBC
Meet the dancing girls of India's 'folk opera' - BBC News
Meet the dancing girls of India's 'folk opera' - BB...
South China Morning Post
From tradition to modern design, India's shoe making industry
India's shoe making industry
Bloomberg
Indians Need Tools to Succeed
If India is to live up the expectations of its own people and become a successful middle-income country in a few decades, the country has multiple problems to solve -- its sclerotic politics, its clogged infrastructure, its choked judicial system, its lack of investable capital, its interfering and inefficient state. But perhaps the greatest hurdle is its poor stock of human capital. Without better education, health and skills, India won’t be able to build a middle class and its efforts to be...
The Irish Times
Tensions rise in East Asia as China flexes its muscles
Opinion: Arguments over territorial claims could trigger military face-offs
“India’s Shinzo Abe?” The headline in an Indian paper about the election of Narendra Modi makes an interesting connection and speaks volumes about the changing face of eastern Asia’s big players and the region’s disturbing, militarising dynamic. East Asia is becoming a more dangerously volatile place as China flexes its muscles, reviving a series of bitter territorial disputes, testing perceptions of weaker US commitm...
The Hindu
‘Okhla waste plant violates Master Plan 2021’
: The Okhla waste-to-energy plant in south Delhi should be immediately shut down as it violates Delhi Master Plan 2021, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was on Tuesday told.
The Tribunal was hearing a plea filed by the Sukhdev Vihar Residents’ Welfare Association praying for the closure of the plant on the grounds of various irregularities.
Senior advocate Amit Chadha, appearing for the Association, told a Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar that the plant was situated in...
afr.com
Collateral damage at Akzo Nobel
Play the ball not the man is all very well as an aphorism during times of concord.
But the bitter €27bn struggle over Akzo Nobel has clearly had an impact on the health of Ton Büchner, chief executive, who announced his resignation on Wednesday.
His departure could yet make a deal with suitor PPG more likely.
Overall, Mr Büchner did a creditable job at Akzo. Since his appointment in 2012, worries over a once gaping pension deficit are gone and operating margins are growing thanks to shrewd co...
fountainink.in
Native and the immigrant
Ethnic clashes in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Areas Districts, Assam.
livemint.com
What’s behind Narendra Modi’s ‘governance’ slogan?
We must not mistake slogans for substance. This may seem an obvious thing to say, but it’s usually the slogan that triumphs. Most of us are familiar with Winston Churchill’s stirring words to the British House of Commons on 4 June 1940: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Stirring stuff. But most may not know that Churchill didn’t fight the Germans where ...
gp.se
One year after the raw rape
Ashwini was only 2.5 years old when she was kidnapped and raped by two teenage boys in a park.Nu, she has become a year older and already knows what she wants to be when she grows up. - Pilot. I want to fly.
fountainink.in
Blood in Bodoland
On December 23, 2014, 81 people were killed by the alleged Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, or NDFB(S), targeting adivasi settlers brought here 150 years ago by the British for tea cultivation.
The brutal killings led to protests by the adivasis on December 24. These quickly turned violent across Kokrajhar, Sonitpur and Udalgudi districts. Several Bodo villages across the affected districts were torched. As a reaction, wherever adivasis had fled their villages fearing for their lives, the Bodos in turn torched those villages. This rioting and arson led to the displacement of about three lakh people across the three districts of Assam. They’re now in limbo, in makeshift relief camps in schools and farms.
thewire.in
In the Land of the Rising Moon - The Wire
The Noctes have a strong sense of identity and are still trying to preserve their culture....
Forbes
Why India and China May Be The Solution To The World's Fast Fashion Crisis
India is also projected to become the world’s third largest apparel market by 2030, with spending on clothes projected to more than double by this date. Growing at 9% in 2016, it is also leading emerging markets as the fastest growing country for fashion, making it a space to watch. As production and consumption increase, China and India may be well-positioned to spearhead the ethical fashion revolution –assuming their attitudes towards sustainability stay the same.
But, warns Dean, that powe...
Zeit Online
Indien: In the glasshouse | ZEIT ONLINE
Heat, fumes, man's sweat: Work in the glass blowing factory in Indian Ferozabad is hard and exhaustive. A visit to pictures