The 'News from India' season
Updated on 01 May 2007
As the 60th anniversary of partition approaches, Krishnan Guru-Murthy presents a series of films on India - from India.
You can catch all the reports again, right here.
Paying the price for India's boom
Krishnan Gury-Murthy looks at how farmers are bearing the brunt of India's economic boom. The country may boast 9 per cent growth - second only to China - but there remains a price to pay.
- Paying the price for India's boom
Dispatches: The Indian Miracle?
Benjie Goodhart interviewed Krishnan Guru-Murthy about what lies beneath the modern perception of India - the reality behind the glossy story of India becoming a superpower.
- Dispatches: The Indian Miracle?
India's Commonwealth Games quest
India is hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and not content with that it is also pitching to host the Olympics in 2020. However its challenges are immense as Kylie Morris found out.
- India's Commonwealth Games quest
Shilpa Shetty:'I will go to court'
One of the people still making the headlines here in India is the Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty.
She's currently facing a summons after she was pictured being kissed by Richard Gere at an Aids benefit. She could be charged with offending Indian culture.
But the ripples from her big Brother victory in the UK still continue as well. And when I caught up with her I asked here if she still thought there hadn't been racism in the Big Brother house.
- Shilpa Shetty:'I will go to court'
Hot stuff: India's one grand car
The £1,000 car being developed in India is unlikely to do much for global warming. Krishnan Guru-Murthy travelled from Mumbai east to Pune, where the new car is being developed, and from there on to the capital, New Delhi, across a country where the car is king.
- Hot stuff: India's £1,000 car
Fairtrade: always a better deal?
It promises a better deal for the poorer countries - but does fair trade always deliver on that promise? India is the supplier of one of the biggest selling fair trade products: tea. But is the reality sometimes more complicated than the pictures of happy workers we see on the packets? Kylie Morris reports.
- Fairtrade: always a better deal?