After a consignment of Vladimir Nabokov’s famed book landed on Indian shores, a debate over its ban spanned Customs and police to the finance minister and PM. | Continue reading
The planned city fails on climate-friendly design and social inclusion. But it has lessons from the practical to the symbolic. | Continue reading
Anganwadi staff need funds for infrastructure and supplies. Instead, the government gave them a new app that is riddled with problems. | Continue reading
The game of kings is more popular than ever, with over 605 million players worldwide, and now, memes are involved. | Continue reading
Given low female employment and unaffordable housing, Indian couples often lack the economic independence to start their own homes. | Continue reading
Babu is expected to be produced before a special NIA court in Mumbai on Wednesday | Continue reading
This can happen because of pneumonia, severe inflammation or blood clotting. | Continue reading
Thomas Abraham, managing director of publishing company Hachette India, offers a prescription. | Continue reading
Private labs and state governments don’t even know which testing kits have been approved. That is how bad the Centre’s information dissemination has been. | Continue reading
Violence in Indian cities simply does not take place over multiple days without the state’s active involvement. | Continue reading
What are the rules on blocking websites and content – and how can they be better implemented? | Continue reading
The longest internet shutdown in the world has not ended. Access has been officially restored to only 301 websites. | Continue reading
Rahul Sagar details the inspiration and execution of his project to index the contents pages of 255 English-language pre-Independence magazines from India. | Continue reading
The music composer was born on this day 75 years ago. His electric fusion compositions, and the music it inspired, lives on. | Continue reading
Communications specialist Sabah Hamid said it was a grave error to honour Modi when he has imposed a communications and movement lockdown in the Valley. | Continue reading
The Mughal emperor was an active patron of books, supporting writers, commissioning translations, and building a huge library. | Continue reading
Science is proving India's incredible diversity. But this clashes directly with Hindutva’s racially nativist understanding of the subcontinent. | Continue reading
The imprint of the state in all aspects of life is massive, so the state’s idea of the national good often prevails. | Continue reading
The biggest stories of the day. | Continue reading
India’s population is projected to peak at 1.65 billion in 2060, before starting to decline. | Continue reading
An investigation in the state’s garment industry found that female workers’ health is being endangered for profit margins. | Continue reading
The government’s failure to provide alternative employment, decent irrigation facilities and adequate drought relief has only worsened the situation. | Continue reading
Tiphaine Rivière’s ‘Notes On A Thesis’, translated from the French by Francesca Barrie, is a reminder of all that can go wrong, and probably will. | Continue reading
Virologist Sathyamangalam Swaminathan says using Dengvaxia in a restricted way in India, as the US plans to do, may not be feasible. | Continue reading
The US, Australia and New Zealand have blocked their firms from using Huawei tech in building 5G networks. Britain and Canada are under pressure to follow suit. | Continue reading
In India’s Silicon Valley, hyperlocal WhatsApp groups are connecting home chefs with busy office-goers who have no time to cook. | Continue reading
Something about Netflix’s business model doesn’t add up – unless you look at it as a massive data collection company. | Continue reading
If you were thinking there must be a lack of people who care or have the talent to design such products, there isn’t. | Continue reading
From hurricane preparation to elections, tabletop simulations can make understanding the world easier. | Continue reading
There’s a way to help the ‘burnout generation’. | Continue reading
A UGC decision in 2010 making research compulsory for teachers to rise up the ladder prompted some to pay dubious publications to feature their work. | Continue reading
The RBI flagged the matter in a report that has been placed before the audit committees of banks. | Continue reading
The newspaper said its web host claimed to have received a police complaint, after which it blocked the website. Police, however, denied this. | Continue reading
Indian researchers have analysed sediments in an Arctic fjord. | Continue reading
A creek from the Periyar river was diverted when the airport – shut till August 26 – was built. | Continue reading
In Valsad and Navsari districts, project-affected villagers say the land acquisition process has been insensitive, non-transparent and often illegal. | Continue reading
I&B ministry tender for tool to create ‘a 360 degree view’ of users so it can target them with personalised responses raises privacy concerns. | Continue reading
We are witnessing the slow-motion unraveling of the ties of equal citizenship that bind a nation, ties of common decency that cohere a society. | Continue reading
Editor and translator Katy Derbyshire poses the question to ten practitioners and stresses why we need to be talking about it. | Continue reading