ScrollCulture (India) Daniel Hailey Walcott Jr: The smuggler who successfully stumped the Indian authorities in the 1960sscroll.in - Abeer Kapoor The manifest of the Riley 65 that took off from Karachi at 4 am on June 8, 1964, stated that it was going to undertake a short journey to Jask in …
ScrollTravel (India) Meet the ‘urban nostalgists’ of Kolkata who are preserving its architectural heritagescroll.in - Chandrima Pal A group of dyed-in-the-wool investors who buy and redevelop old Kolkata properties have been in a huddle of late. In 2018, they bought a century old …
ScrollMount Everest Himalayan deaths: How colonial ambition drove generations of mountaineers to risk life and limbscroll.in - Ipsita Chakravarty The Himalayas were scattered with tragedy this summer. Eleven climbers died on Mount Everest, many of them forced to wait for hours in the “death …
ScrollCulture (India) Akshita Chandra: An Indian artist uses Grimms’ fairy tales to show how sexist stereotypes perpetuatescroll.in - Rohini Kejriwal The fairy tale Snow White has been revisited myriad times – on the big screen, on the small screen, in poems and in video games. Not every retelling …
ScrollCulture (India) The unlikely connection between Mahatma Gandhi and the famous Brazilian Carnivalscroll.in - Nikhil Pandhi In the spring of 1930, a myriad group of 78 satyagrahis, led by Mahatma Gandhi, set out from Sabarmati ashram to the salt-glazed shores of Dandi. …
ScrollCulture (India) Why are Indian Muslims renaming Ramzan favourite ‘haleem’ to ‘daleem’?scroll.in - Shoaib Daniyal While out to buy some haleem during the first week of Ramzan, I discovered that the popular Kolkata restaurant Saiqa had introduced a new dish: …
ScrollRussell Peters The Russell Peters interview: Indo-Canadian comedian on his ‘Deported’ world tour and stereotypesscroll.in - Soumya Rao Russell Peters is back – to entertain, offend, or both, depending on where you stand. The Indo-Canadian comedian is in India as part of his Deported …
ScrollMuseums India’s museums can be dull and dreary. These men and women are trying to fix thatscroll.in - Shailaja Tripathi On March 21, among the millions of videos and images posted on Instagram, there was a challenge to mark World Poetry Day. The Heritage Lab uploaded a …
ScrollCulture (India) The inspiring story of Venu Chitale, who became a prominent voice on BBC during the Second World Warscroll.in - Anu Kumar For South Asians living in Britain, 1939 was a torrid year. The war was about to reach Britain’s shores, shipping was disrupted, and travel had …
ScrollCulture (India) Keerai Kadai: An agriculturalist from Coimbatore is putting the focus on forgotten Indian greensscroll.in - Sharmila Vaidyanathan Have you heard of Thavasi keerai, a type of sweet spinach that is packed with vitamins and helps reduce blood pressure? Or Chukka keerai, with its …
ScrollCulture (India) In a new show, Vivan Sundaram reimagines and retells history through destruction and reconstructionscroll.in - Chanpreet Khurana While setting up his show at the PhotoINK gallery in Delhi, one of the things artist Vivan Sundaram did was to get the entrance altered. Instead of …
ScrollDrawing Tahira Rifath: The artist who is drawing each of the 258 victims of Sri Lanka Easter bombingsscroll.in - Zahara Dawoodbhoy It is often the case that when a nation is blindsided by tragedy, its people will translate their grief into fear and anger. This is what graphic …
ScrollCulture (India) The Lucknow-Shahjahanpur gharana dominated the musical landscape, but is all but forgotten nowscroll.in - Arnab Chakrabarty Tucked away in a nondescript bylane of central Kolkata’s Bright Street is a large concrete house typical of the 20th century Brutalist architecture …
ScrollCulture (India) The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a centuryscroll.in - Priya Naik The heiress apparent to the throne of Bhopal, Abida Sultan, wore her hair short, played the saxophone, had her own band, sped around in a Daimler, …
Scroll Meet the Indian moderator of Reddit Bureau of Investigation who is helping users crack mysteriesscroll.in - Anu Prabhakar Seven years ago, an anonymous post on the Reddit Bureau of Investigation garnered a fair bit of interest. A user uploaded a picture of what vaguely …
ScrollCulture (India) In the shadow of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, an art project is helping homeless women ‘map their lives’scroll.in - Malini Nair Urdu Park, devoid of any of the literary elegance the name suggests, is a large, barren ground in the shadow of Delhi’s Jama Masjid. Flanked by Meena …
ScrollCulture (India) The Mughal Feast: A new book resurrects recipes from Shah Jahan’s kitchensscroll.in - Salma Yusuf Husain The silver twilight of Mughal civilization began with Shah Jahan. Delhi was now a sanctuary of an urbane, sophisticated court which had taste, even …
Scroll The India Pavilion at Venice Biennale celebrates Gandhi while some at home discuss his killingscroll.in - Chanpreet Khurana In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi commissioned an art project for the Indian National Congress’ annual session in Haripura, Gujarat. Thousands of people from …
Scroll Why Indian vocalist Manjiri Asanare Kelkar believes in staying true to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharanascroll.in - Nikhil Inamdar Manjiri Asanare Kelkar was firmly on home turf as she took the stage at the 85th Abdul Karim Khan Punyatithi Samaroh in Miraj in April. It was well …
Scroll Sol kadhi, chaas, mattha: What India drinks and eats to ensure a healthy digestive systemscroll.in - Priyadarshini Chatterjee There are few things Bengalis fear as much as a choa dhekur, the local word for a sulphur burp, which is typically induced by dining table excesses …
Scroll Tawaifs’ contribution to the Indian freedom struggle has been erased by historyscroll.in - Soumya Rao In June 1857, when Indian soldiers laid siege to Cawnpore (now Kanpur), enclosing British East India Company officials, they were accompanied by a …
Scroll Did kangaroos ever live in India? An archaeological find in Andhra Pradesh raises questionsscroll.in - Anupama Chandrasekaran The landscape was a geological crumb cake – a ruddy tableland bristling with boulders, rocks and pebbles. Every step that archaeologist Jinu Koshy …
Scroll Mumbai’s Chamar Studio wants to confront caste biases with sustainable fashionscroll.in - Amrita Bose A cramped workspace in a Santa Cruz East slum is bustling with activity. Three men are busy cutting patterns out of recycled rubber. A few kilometres …
Scroll Assam’s roving theatre travels to Bengaluru to showcase its ‘unique model of entertainment’scroll.in - Maitreyee Boruah April has always been a special month for 31-year-old Moon Saikia. With the return of spring come birds, blossoms and Bohag – the Assamese New …
Scroll Brown History Photo Album on Instagram shines spotlight on South Asia’s personal historiesscroll.in - Damini Kulkarni In his influential book Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot highlighted the …
Scroll Suraiya Hasan Bose: The pioneer who has single-handedly revived near-extinct textiles in Indiascroll.in - Mallik Thatipalli When writer Radhika Singh was working on her book on the lifestyle retail brand Fabindia, there was one name that kept coming up in her research: …
Scroll Jejeebhoy Jeejeebhoy: The forgotten story of one of Mumbai’s earliest historiansscroll.in - Murali Ranganathan History unfortunately has been superseded in favour of flighty novels and trashy periodicals, with the result that the investigation and research …
Scroll In Bengaluru, residential WhatsApp groups could give competition to Swiggy and Zomatoscroll.in - Akhila Ranganna The much-anticipated April rains had finally arrived in Bengaluru. The sweet smell of petrichor was everywhere. Jaishri Gopalan was watching the rain …
Scroll #36daysoftype: Meet ten Indians who are pushing their boundaries during the Instagram challengescroll.in - Rohini Kejriwal The idea of fear intrigued Nori Norbhu. “Everybody has something that they fear in life,” said the Mumbai-based graphic designer, and “overcoming …
