Stories written by Sujoy Dhar
One of IPS’s regular India-based writers for many years, Sujoy Dhar is an India correspondent with the Washington Times. He is the founder-editor of news agency India Blooms News Service and feature service Trans World Features, a columnist with Pakistan's Newsline magazine and a correspondent for PAN in Afghanistan. Sujoy also writes for a host of other Indian and international publications. | Web

POPULATION-INDIA: Bad Business, Distrust Driving Out Calcutta’s Chinese

By Sujoy Dhar
Every evening, 63-year-old Chen Pin Chang eagerly waits for the diners to enter his small one-room dwelling in a dilapidated building in this eastern Indian metropolis.

RIGHTS-INDIA: Building a New Life for HIV-Infected Child Sex Workers

By Sujoy Dhar
Fourteen-year-old Shefali knows she has lost life's battle. Outwardly, she is listless and morose. But inside, she seethes with anger as she remembers the past few years of her life.

RELIGION-INDIA: Faith Dispute Over Christian Tribals

By Sujoy Dhar
Leaders of India's minority Christians and right-wing Hindu groups are sparring again, this time over the religious loyalty of the sizeable indigenous communities in the eastern border state of West Bengal.

POLITICS-INDIA: Sensitive Border Post Turns Tourist Destination

By Sujoy Dhar
Closed since the 1962 border war with China, this snow-bound, high-altitude pass is turning into a tourist destination thanks to thawed bilateral ties.

HEALTH-INDIA: Women Hit Harder By Arsenic Poisoning of Groundwater

By Sujoy Dhar
Villagers shun 36-year-old Kamala Mandal who lives in penury under a crumbling straw roof that doubles as a shed for an odd cow and goat in a far flung village of West Bengal state, in eastern India.

RELIGION: Mother Teresa’s Nuns Remain Faithful Followers

By Sujoy Dhar
Its two years since the passing away of Mother Teresa and her worldwide flock of sari-clad nuns has grown, according to her India-born successor Sister Nirmala.

RIGHTS-INDIA: Sex Workers Assert Rights

By Sujoy Dhar
Mala Singh and Sadhana Mukherjee spent the prime of their youth pandering to male passions in the dark alleys of this eastern Indian city's sleaze districts.

RIGHTS-INDIA: Sex Workers Assert Rights

By Sujoy Dhar
Mala Singh and Sadhana Mukherjee spent the prime of their youth pandering to male passions in the dark alleys of this eastern Indian city's sleaze districts.

HEALTH-INDIA: Dominique Lapierre and NGO Rein in TB in Bengal

By Sujoy Dhar
It was the calamitous monsoon of 1978 in West Bengal. The fury of the annual floods in the eastern Indian state had never been so savage and rendered so many people homeless.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILMS: Bangla-language Cinema Bonds Bangladesh, India

By Sujoy Dhar
For the Bangla-language film industry, it is as if the border between India and Bangladesh does not exist.
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