Jason Overdorf

Kabaddi, a contact sport combining elements of tag, rugby and capture the flag, was invented centuries ago and is now the second most popular sport in India after cricket.

Local newspapers feature almost daily reports of gruesome sexual assaults on infants and toddlers.

Modi's plan to root out corruption and tax evasion could end in a terrible recession.

Thanks to a Bollywood film, Professor Siras's suicide may wind up doing more for gay rights than India's usually liberal courts.

Muslims are being killed over beef, and India’s credibility is at stake—along with a $10 billion beef, buffalo and leather industry.

Astrology is big business in India. It can also get you killed.

How India's most desperate state transformed itself to become a model for the rest of the country.

Midway through Vishal Bhardwaj's 2009 movie Kaminey (Scoundrels), the hero is captured by thugs looking to recover $2 million in stolen cocaine. As the goons torture him to find out where he's hidden the drugs, they run into a problem: he stammers so badly that they can't get a word out of him. So sing, they say. Out come his answers, to the tune of a popular song. Problem solved. Except the hero the thugs have captured isn't the thief. His twin brother, who lisps, stole the dope. And the twins haven't spoken to each other for years.For those unfamiliar with Bollywood films, the scene, like the rest of Kaminey, plays as if it were directed by Guy Ritchie. From the tortuous plot twists to the ludicrous double speech impediment, Bhardwaj treads the tightrope between comedy and camp—keeping it just straight enough for the audience to suspend disbelief. But for aficionados of the Hindi-language genre, Kaminey is a revolutionary manifesto. It takes classic Bollywood tropes—estranged...

Experts estimate that corruption in India indirectly kills more than 8,000 people a day by diverting money from food programs into the pockets of crooked officials. Now the government hopes to reduce graft with a new approach: instead of specifying how much money will be spent on welfare programs, it will use laws guaranteeing employment, education, and food to set out the exact services that each government agency must deliver. ...

He may be shy, but his 100-day plan for India is strikingly bold.

New rules have exposed just how many thieves and murderers sit in India's Parliament.

Isolated from world trends, India's aspiring middle will help it grow through the credit storm.

Isolated from world trends, India's aspiring poor will help it grow through the credit storm.

India turns to the private sector for security New Delhi can't provide.

India avoids lashing out at Pakistan and its own Muslims after the Mumbai attacks.

Terrorism hasn't yet derailed India's growth story.

Despite the bloodshed, India's confidence is already shining through.

A local counterterrorism expert on India's vulnerabilities.

Upcoming elections in India could help usher an even more nationalist BJP back into power.

India may now be the world leader in deploying satellites that assist practical work on the ground.

While Asia reels from a food crisis, India is benefiting from three years of investment in farming.

In a drive to remain top table in New Delhi's fast-growing fine-dining scene, in August the Taj Mahal Hotel opened its second new restaurant in as many months. This flashy Indian eatery is already attracting the city's swish set. ...

For some time now, Indian firms have been growing in competitiveness; companies like Tata, Reliance, and the Aditya Birla Group now rival giant Western multinationals like General Electric and Procter & Gamble. The conventional wisdom has also been that Subcontinental powerhouses are getting more sophisticated. Management is becoming more professional, too; bullish analysts point to the recent merger of Ranbaxy (India's largest drugmaker) with Japan's Daiichi as a sign of a new willingness among India's CEO scions to move beyond the walled garden of family firms and team up with smart outside companies.Now a very public fight between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd. and Anil Ambani's Reliance Anil Dhirubai Ambani Group—the billion-dollar refineries to telecoms rivals created when the brothers divided the family assets after a soap-opera-style split in 2005—underscores how much work remains. The brothers are battling over Anil's planned merger of his Reliance...

Delhi's bureaucrats bicker over cholera and the role of city drains and state sewers.

 Kamal Nath has become not only the voice of India in trade circles, but an advocate of the developing world.

Indian investigators suspect as many as 500 illegal transplants have been performed.

CEO Ratan Tata defends the Nano's environmental credibility

Tata's Nano may put millions of new drivers on the roads. It also may herald a new source of pollution.

When Tata Motors set out to build a $2,500 car, people said it couldn't be done. This week the company will unveil its vehicle of the future.

Mobile banking might save the government and banks money and reduce fraud that plagues the public-distribution system.

India's film industry has long been prolific and chaotic. Now, with modern business leaders, it's coming of age—and taking aim at Hollywood, U.S.A.