Sushmita Pathak
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Hospitals are full. Testing is scant. Illiteracy is high. Most deaths are never registered. COVID-19's wrath in rural India is difficult to measure but public health experts are worried.
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The Indian Premier League was suspended in May, but critics weigh in on whether the event should have been held at all amid the country's deadly COVID-19 crisis.
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Cricket matches continued in India amid the world's biggest COVID-19 wave. Some called it unethical, while fans say it kept them sane. But now some players have tested positive.
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Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many times more than the reported figures.
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Hindu pilgrims are traveling to bathe in the Ganges River to wipe out their sins.
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PHOTOS: Mumbai Falls In Love All Over Again With Its Forgotten FountainsThey're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.
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Government officials and architects in India are preserving forgotten relics of Mumbai's history: ornate 19th century drinking fountains. Reviving them could help improve water access for the poor.
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Reporter Meera Devi, from the marginalized Dalit caste, is determined to get her community heard. She's featured in the award-winning documentary, Writing With Fire, which opens in the U.S. on Friday.
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India is reporting its largest spike in new coronavirus cases since November. Its health ministry said that several concerning variants have been detected.
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The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.