‘Mayday’ review: A light and easy American-Russian bhai-bhai comedy
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff6 Sept 2026
The duo behind the criminally underrated Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves ensure a safe landing for Mayday.
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top 58%September Indian fiction: Six new titles (including Amit Chaudhuri’s) to look forward to
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff6 Sept 2026
All information sourced from publishers. Château Rouge, Amit Chaudhuri A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area that bears little resemblance to his idea of the city.
In ‘Lovers in the Blue Night’, the ‘constant search for identity’ on the margins of the big city
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath6 Sept 2026
Anuparna Roy first visited Venice in 2025 when her debut feature Songs of Forgotten Trees was showing in the Orrizonti section of the city’s reputed annual international film festival.
‘Writing should be a calling ideally, not an escape hatch’: Novelist and poet Meena Kandasamy
Scroll.inby S Anand6 Sept 2026
Meena Kandasamy took the literary world by storm with her first collection of poetry, Touch, in 2006. Two decades hence, her novel Fieldwork as a Sex Object is out.
‘The Anniversary’: This Italian novel examines a patriarchal nuclear family and its links to fascism
Scroll.inby Sanjita Majumder5 Sept 2026
Andrea Bajani’s novel, the winner of the 2025 Strega Prize, is a radical exploration of the psychology of family estrangement.
Chirag Paswan files complaint against Hindutva influencer for ‘misusing’ his name
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Friday filed a complaint against a Hindutva influencer for allegedly misusing his name in connection with the assault on the father of a student activist during...
Bengal: Christian burial disrupted, mourners allegedly assaulted by mob linked to Hindutva groups
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
A burial was disrupted and mourners allegedly assaulted by a mob purportedly associated with Hindutva groups at a church in Sahanagar town of Purba Bardhaman district in Bharatiya Janata...
‘Da’: A novel about a child’s observation of queer lives has its heart in the right place
Scroll.inby Rahul Singh5 Sept 2026
I held on tightly to the page when 13-year-old Ved is asked, “Do you think gay people should go to jail?” As though a child’s answer could change lives.
United Nations adopts new map showing Africa larger
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a new world map that makes the African continent appear larger and shrinks North America and Europe.
Why is Goa allowing the 500-year-old Adil Shah Palace to crumble?
Scroll.inby Luis Dias5 Sept 2026
At the rate priceless public heritage buildings are vanishing before our eyes in the Goan capital of Panjim (the Campal lighthouse is the latest infuriating example) or sinister plans seem afoot to...
In Odisha, drum-making traditions echo the rhythms of farm life
Scroll.inby Pritesh Sundar Roy5 Sept 2026
In Pahandi, a small village in Bijepur block of Odisha’s Bargarh district, the rhythm of a traditional baja or drum begins long before it reaches a festival ground. It begins with the earth.
Donations to six Gujarat-based outfits exceeded those to national parties except BJP: Report
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
Donations made to six political outfits based in Gujarat were more than those made to national parties, except the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the financial year 2023-’24, BBC News Hindi reported on...
Harsh Mander: Hindutva’s boycott calls seek the economic erasure of India’s Muslims
Scroll.inby Harsh Mander5 Sept 2026
The organised economic boycott of vulnerable and oppressed communities has scarred Indian society for millennia.
Could two moves in Washington torpedo US trade deal with India?
Scroll.inby Biswajit Dhar, Institute of Chinese Studies4 Sept 2026
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor recently claimed that the US-India trade agreement is on the verge of finalisation and that “almost everything” about the agreement was done “in principle”.
Rush Hour: Ex-bureaucrat booked for X post, Hindutva influencer held for assault at protest & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for several hours, said on Friday that a first...
Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted CJP protester’s father detained
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
The Delhi Police has detained a Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted the father of a student activist during the youth protests at Jantar Mantar, PTI quoted unidentified officers as saying.
Thriller: George wakes up to find his wife, Bollywood superstar Sweety, murdered in their bedroom
Scroll.inby Abir Mukherjee4 Sept 2026
Humans adapted. It was what they did. Didn’t matter if it was fire, flood, a hurricane hitting your house or your career tanking on account of a string of movies which generated sub-par returns at...
‘Mirzapur the Movie’ review: Big-screen version of the web series stands on its own bloodied feet
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath4 Sept 2026
After three seasons of mayhem on Prime Video, the web series Mirzapur has been transported to the big screen.
25 accused whom police say were in jail spotted by facial recognition at Jantar Mantar: Report
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
Of the 2,873 persons that the facial recognition software identified as allegedly having criminal records among those present during the youth protest at Jantar Mantar, 25 were in jail according to...
Step up preparedness for glacial lake outbursts and avalanches, Centre tells Himalayan states
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday asked states and Union Territories in the Himalayas to step up preparedness against glacial lake outburst floods and snow avalanches.