When Jawaharlal Nehru Read ‘Lolita’

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


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The planned city fails on climate-friendly design and social inclusion. But it has lessons from the practical to the symbolic. | Continue reading


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A new app is failing India's fight against child malnutrition

Anganwadi staff need funds for infrastructure and supplies. Instead, the government gave them a new app that is riddled with problems. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 2 years ago

Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change

The game of kings is more popular than ever, with over 605 million players worldwide, and now, memes are involved. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 3 years ago

In charts: Why most Indian men live with their parents

Given low female employment and unaffordable housing, Indian couples often lack the economic independence to start their own homes. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 3 years ago

Another anti-caste activist arrested in India

Babu is expected to be produced before a special NIA court in Mumbai on Wednesday | Continue reading


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Covid-19 patients may suffer long-term lung damage even after recovery

This can happen because of pneumonia, severe inflammation or blood clotting. | Continue reading


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Britain’s monuments are coming under scrutiny – and so is its violent history

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What can publishers, booksellers (and readers) do for the books business to recover after Covid-19?

Thomas Abraham, managing director of publishing company Hachette India, offers a prescription. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

India’s gov wants to censor the media to fight Covid-19

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

3 days of violent attacks in Delhi could not take place without state sanction

Violence in Indian cities simply does not take place over multiple days without the state’s active involvement. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

How India is using its IT Act to arbitrarily take down online content

What are the rules on blocking websites and content – and how can they be better implemented? | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

The internet is painfully slow in Kashmir - but users have found a way to access restricted websites

The longest internet shutdown in the world has not ended. Access has been officially restored to only 301 websites. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

A scholar built a database of pre-Independence magazines from India

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Ananda Shankar’s enduring genius (2017)

The music composer was born on this day 75 years ago. His electric fusion compositions, and the music it inspired, lives on. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Gates Foundation employee quits in protest against award to Narendra Modi

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Akbar the Great: Illiterate Lover of Books

The Mughal emperor was an active patron of books, supporting writers, commissioning translations, and building a huge library. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Two new genetic studies upheld Indo-Aryan migration

Science is proving India's incredible diversity. But this clashes directly with Hindutva’s racially nativist understanding of the subcontinent. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Why do Indians often cheer autocratic acts that could greatly destablise their lives?

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

ISRO launches Chandrayaan-2 moon mission from Sriharikota

The biggest stories of the day. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

More men, crowded cities: Five charts show what India’s future looks like

India’s population is projected to peak at 1.65 billion in 2060, before starting to decline. | Continue reading


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Factories illegally giving women pills to keep them working through period pains

An investigation in the state’s garment industry found that female workers’ health is being endangered for profit margins. | Continue reading


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Severe drought has forced thriving farmers to leave in search of wage labour

The government’s failure to provide alternative employment, decent irrigation facilities and adequate drought relief has only worsened the situation. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

As PhD season beckons this novel is a graphic reminder of the hell of academia

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Interview: Why a safe and effective dengue vaccine is proving elusive

Virologist Sathyamangalam Swaminathan says using Dengvaxia in a restricted way in India, as the US plans to do, may not be feasible. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Shutting out China’s Huawei from their telecom networks is a big mistake

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


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

WhatsApp is the new way to buy and sell food

In India’s Silicon Valley, hyperlocal WhatsApp groups are connecting home chefs with busy office-goers who have no time to cook. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 4 years ago

Netflix may be less about content and more about data.Do we see Netflix wrongly?

Something about Netflix’s business model doesn’t add up – unless you look at it as a massive data collection company. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Nasa didn't have enough right-sized suits for the first all-woman spacewalk

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


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Politicians, generals and NGOs are playing war games – for peace

From hurricane preparation to elections, tabletop simulations can make understanding the world easier. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Solution to millennial burnout is not to become more resilient

There’s a way to help the ‘burnout generation’. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals

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


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Microsoft regularly shared data of India bank customers with US intelligence

The RBI flagged the matter in a report that has been placed before the audit committees of banks. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Indian publication Indian express was offline on alleged Crime Branch complaint

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


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

How a melting glacier in Norway is influencing the monsoon in India

Indian researchers have analysed sediments in an Arctic fjord. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

The inundation of Kochi airport was a disaster waiting to happen

A creek from the Periyar river was diverted when the airport – shut till August 26 – was built. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Why part with good land for a bullet train we won’t ride?

In Valsad and Navsari districts, project-affected villagers say the land acquisition process has been insensitive, non-transparent and often illegal. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

Indian Govt to monitor individual social media users to gauge public opinion

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


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

With Gurgaon namaaz disruption, majoritarian bullying comes in plain sight of aspirational India

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


@scroll.in | 5 years ago

What makes a translation great?

Editor and translator Katy Derbyshire poses the question to ten practitioners and stresses why we need to be talking about it. | Continue reading


@scroll.in | 5 years ago