Backstory 2024: A taxi driver thought police violence was normal
A Coimbatore cabbie is surprise to learn about his legal rights as he drives a Scroll reporter back from an interview.
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‘The Death of a Sarus Crane’: Ambai’s detective stories excavate the murky depth of human behaviour
The short story has been Ambai’s chosen fictional form for close to five decades. While her oeuvre would decidedly be termed ...
The quiet and fierce courage of the women in Shyam Benegal’s cinema
Few Indian directors have tackled the interiority – and the burden and bliss – of the average Indian woman with as much ...
How can authoritarian rulers be rolled back? Accurate information for citizens holds the key
A study from Turkey found that support for democracy increased. But India’s fragmented media landscape and inconsistent ...
Amid row over cremation site, Centre says it has accepted Manmohan Singh memorial space request
The government not allocating a site befitting of Singh’s global stature for his funeral and memorial was a ‘deliberate ...
How Manmohan Singh took to economics, and got interested in politics, in college
In September 1948, Manmohan went back to college. This time he joined the humanities stream with economics, political science ...
Uber Shuttle: How far will the ride-hailing app’s bus service go?
Lately, Singh has found a solution to this exhausting daily ordeal: Uber Shuttle, a shared bus service that allows users to ...
‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets
Excerpted with permission from The Essential Ghalib, translated from the Urdu by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India.
GRAP stage 3 restrictions revoked in Delhi as air quality improves
The Commission for Air Quality Management said that the air quality index in the national capital was expected to remain ...
Tribute: MT Vasudevan Nair’s fiction holds the fragrance of Valluvanad and luminance of River Nila
MT wrote about ordinary longings, existential reflections, and familial conflicts when the Malayali literary scene was ...
Former PM Manmohan Singh dies at 92
As the Union finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh was the architect of reforms that liberalised the Indian economy.
Instead of ‘doomsday’ approach, India’s climate activists should centre people and their emotions
When climate messaging frames climate change as a universal concern without considering local realities, it can backfire.