During the research for his book India: A Portrait, Patrick French (@PatrickFrench2 on Twitter) found there was no news site which consolidated top stories relating to India from across the many exceptional websites and journals that he was using. He started sharing the most interesting stories with friends on a closed site, who quickly suggested that he spread this information more widely.
The India Site was launched in January 2011. Since it went online, we have had several million hits.
It is designed in Bangalore and updated from around the world. The featured links are hand-picked daily by Patrick and other readers in South Asia and beyond. Some of the stories relate to modern India and the themes in India: A Portrait, but most are just interesting, important, entertaining or remarkable in their own right.
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'Union Carbide India Limited’s 1984 Bhopal pesticide plant leak is one of the worst industrial accidents in history, killing 4,000 people overnight and leaving 500,000 severely ill. The accident site has still not been cleaned up, victims continue to die in many thousands, and to suffer in hundreds of thousands ... The Stratfor materials reveal that over an extended period of time, Dow has employed Stratfor to produce intelligence reports on Bhopal activists. This was not a one off piece of analysis, but an ongoing, multi-year, and presumably very expensive campaign.'
'Everybody asks me how I landed my job. That is because, in the National Capital Region of Washington DC, I get to speak my mother tongue, wear my native attire and am paid to wax forth on my motherland & its shenanigans for five days a week. (Telugu. Sari. India.)'
'No, we don’t ask if a woman is pregnant unless it is obviously evident that she is, although we are an extremely nosy kind of people otherwise. No, we don’t ever divide the bill/check at the restaurant under the waiter’s nose as he watches, smirking at your tight-fistedness. Oh! Please remember to always share whatever you eat, will you? But not if you have already tasted it… that would be inappropriate… but (Is now a good time to talk about Caste?). No, we don’t really understand what you mean by “space”, physical or mental. Emotional space? (ayiyyo! who wants THAT? Is it why Americans have so many psychological issues?)'
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'In most photographs and videos of Jayalalithaa, a dour-faced woman wearing an expression not unlike that of an anxious grandmother watching a toddler bumble about the garden, can be spotted somewhere in the frame. She is Sasikala Natarajan, the close aide and best friend of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Some believe she’s also the CM’s puppet master. Often seen whispering furtively to Jayalalithaa, occasionally caught smiling, and never interviewed, the wary-looking Sasikala was her most – perhaps her only – trusted lieutenant. On 19 December, 2011, a terse statement was issued from the office of Jayalalithaa. She had expelled Sasikala and 11 of her relatives from the AIADMK party “with immediate effect”...' (The India Site)
