BBC OS Conversations: India train crash

*** This programme contains scenes of a sexual nature and discussion of sexual assault, including child sex abuse *** Neha Vyaso is one of the most successful intimacy co-ordinators in Bollywood. She has worked with some of Bollywood's biggest names, including actors Tiger Shroff ...  Show more

Late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe died in 2019, but in the years before and since his death, his three children with his former wife, Grace, consistenly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In April 2026 Bellarmine Mugabe pled guilty to a firearms offence in South Afri ...  Show more

В Индии от коронавируса умерли более 220 тысяч человек, заболевших - более 20 миллионов. Но на самом деле жертв значительно больше. В больницах не хватает коек, кислорода и лекарств, а тела умерших сжигают на улицах. Корреспондент Русской службы Би-би-си Юлия Джеймс изучала ситуа ...  Show more

India’s biggest mover of things – its railways run more than 13,000 trains ferrying close to 400 crore people. Even with the rapid emergence of new and faster trains, the story has lately teetered on the brink of derailment. The Balasore accident, which happened in June, was I ...

What happens when somebody dies in a country that's not their home? This week on Kerning Cultures, stories about the group of volunteers who help repatriate the bodies of foreigners after they've died in the UAE.Special thanks to Zaki, Max, Ashraf Thamaraserry, Vidhyadharan, Amal ...  Show more

Pankaj Mishra's Run and Hide tells a story of modern Indian times, as the hidden pasts of wealthy, Gatsby-style tech entrepreneurs must be reckoned with.And to help put this modern India in context, Dr Pragya Dhital will consider the resonances of the tumultuous period of "The Em ...  Show more