Gujarat Half the Vote: A sarpanch in Gujarat credits her husband and Modi for development in her villagescroll.in - Aarefa Johari Indian women are voting more than ever before. In many states, their turnout is now higher than that of men. But political discussions in the country …
Madras S Muthiah tribute: The man who worked on an ever-growing, never-complete mosaic of Madrasscroll.in - Samanth Subramanian To me, S Muthiah was always Mr Muthiah, and to him, Chennai was always Madras, so that is what I shall call them. People who move to Madras, as my …
Thiruvananthapuram Elections 2019: Will Thiruvananthapuram be the BJP’s first Lok Sabha seat in Kerala?scroll.in - TA Ameerudheen On April 11, clad in his trademark white shirt and dhoti, Kummanam Rajasekharan, the BJP candidate from Thiruvananthapuram constituency, stood on top …
U.S. Supreme Court International Criminal Court: Refusing visa to prosecutor, US shows contempt for international lawscroll.in - Jay Ramasubramanyam, The Conversation On April 5, the United States revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for her attempts to open an …
Smart technology: How the humble pocket calculator morphed into the smartphonescroll.in - Duncan Geere If you spend any time around technology, and probably even if you don’t, then you’ll probably also have heard some variation on the saying, “There’s …
Ranjan Gogoi Letters to editor: Readers’ views on allegations against CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Sadhvi Pragya and morescroll.in - Scroll Staff Sexual harassment allegations Thanks for the unprecedented and bold publication of sexual harassment allegations involving such a high office (“Chief …
Birds Kashmir: Research into migratory birds hampered by poachingscroll.in - Athar Parvaiz Gunshots crack into the air as dusk falls. A young man from Zainakote village in Srinagar district bumps into two other local youth who are strolling …
Ranjan Gogoi Supreme Court: What you need to know about the allegations against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoiscroll.in - Scroll Staff A day after he was accused of sexual harassment and abuse of power by a former Supreme Court staffer, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi presided …
Hare Krishnas Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd discusses violence, iconography and aesthetics in Hinduismscroll.in - Saikat Majumdar What is the role of violence in Hinduism? Towards whom is the violence directed? Suddenly, the air in which we breathe has thickened with a language …
Hindutva terror: In denying it exists, backing Pragya Thakur, Modi betrays constitutional principlesscroll.in - Harsh Mander I decided to dedicate my new book to the memory of those who had contributed most for justice against hate, who are no longer with us. Heading the …
Poetry #NaPoWriMo: 10 poets from India who are embracing and excelling at National Poetry Writing Monthscroll.in - Rohini Kejriwal For the past 16 years, poets and writers around the world have celebrated April as National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). As part of this, many …
Rural employment: As opportunities drop, women pay the highest pricescroll.in - Tish Sanghera, IndiaSpend.com When Kamal Gangrude looks across at the fields beside her home on the valley floor, she sees swathes of farmland which this year will not be weeded, …
BJP The Election Fix: Muslims are constantly discussed but seriously underrepresented in Indian politicsscroll.in - Nithya Subramanian Welcome to The Election Fix. On Sundays, we take a closer look at one theme that will play a significant role in India’s Lok Sabha elections. This …
Akhilesh Yadav Elections 2019: For young Yadav voters, Akhilesh bhaiyya is better than PM Modiscroll.in - Akash Bisht Childhood friends Vinod Singh Yadav and Amar Singh Yadav do not remember an occasion on which they have disagreed with each other in the past. But …
Intizar Husain gently probed the wounds of the Partition like no other writerscroll.in - Rakhshanda Jalil The literature of the early years of Independence reflects a knee-jerk reaction to immediate events. The work of Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, …
Marlon James’s ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ turns old style fantasy fiction into something brand newscroll.in - Arnab Chakraborty The first thing Marlon James’s new novel does to readers is confuse them. That is an intended effect, and he succeeds: the diction is choppy but …
BJP Elections 2019: Sabarimala agitators in Kerala plan to vote for the Congress rather than the BJPscroll.in - TA Ameerudheen Soumya Nair, 55, claims to have attended every major protest against the Supreme Court’s September 28 judgement allowing menstruating-age women to …
Bible What the Biblical Easter story tells us about how and where heaven isscroll.in - Robyn J Whitaker, The Conversation My pious Baptist grandmother once shockingly confessed, at the ripe old age of 93, that she didn’t want to go to heaven. “Why,” we asked? “Well, I …
Nepal Endangered Kashmir musk deer also present in Nepal, says study that analysed poop, photos, genesscroll.in - Sahana Ghosh A study has provided evidence of the presence of the endangered Kashmir musk deer in Nepal, with the identification extending the fanged deer …
Weird Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of themscroll.in - Adam Schembri, The Conversation Is English “weird”? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain the complex spelling rules of the language, or the meanings of …
Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya’s candidature from Bhopal signals BJP’s intent to fundamentally change Indian republicscroll.in - Samar Halarnkar The Hindu ascetic Pragya Singh Thakur – who is out on bail, supposedly because of “health issues” – is due to stand trial on numerous grounds, …
‘Bullocks From The West’: Na Muthuswamy turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychologyscroll.in - Vighnesh Hampapura Before reading Bullocks From The West, I had only heard of Na Muthuswamy in an obituary written by Kamal Haasan. An experimental playwright and …
Social Media TikTok isn’t the only social media platform with a porn problem – and a ban is not the answerscroll.in - Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com TikTok is in some serious trouble in India. Though it isn’t the only one battling a rising tide of porn, violence, and fake news, the country’s …
‘Good Talk’: Mira Jacob’s graphic novel travels with brown bodies in the broken American Dreamscroll.in - Nishtha Jaiswal Explain Like I’m Five (ELI5) is one of the most popular pages on the socially curated news website and forum, Reddit. The members of this online …
India Full Text: SC secretary general denies sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justicescroll.in - Scroll Staff In an affidavit sent to 22 judges of the Supreme Court on Friday, a former junior court assistant who worked in the residence office of the Chief …
Ranjan Gogoi Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi sexually harassed me, says former Supreme Court stafferscroll.in - Sruthisagar Yamunan A 35-year-old woman who used to work as a junior court assistant at the Supreme Court of India wrote to 22 judges of the court on Friday, April 19, …
Pinarayi Vijayan Elections 2019: It may be entirely up to Pinarayi Vijayan if Kerala goes to the Left Front or notscroll.in - TA Ameerudheen Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was at his exuberant best as he campaigned for his Left Democratic Front’s PP Suneer in Wayanad constituency …
Short Stories Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a doctor in the US, has written a prizewinning debut collection of short storiesscroll.in - Sana Goyal Sixteen stories make up Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection of short stories, White Dancing Elephants, winner of theDzanc Short Story Collection …
Shiv Sena Priyanka Chaturvedi may have failed women by quitting Congress over sexism, only to join Shiv Senascroll.in - Kalpana Sharma Priyanka Chaturvedi has failed women in politics. Or perhaps she is showing them the only way to survive. On April 17, Chaturvedi, then the Congress …
Poetry Poetry review: Urvashi Bahuguna’s ‘Terrarium’ is therapeutic, nuanced and bursting with wisdomscroll.in - Niyati Bhat Terrarium is one of the few contemporary poetry debuts that is both autobiographical and universal in its subtleties. It is remarkable how a single …
