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Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath23 Aug 2026
Nigeria’s capital city, Lagos, resembles a proper madhouse in Damilare Kuku’s 2021 debut book, the short story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad.
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff23 Aug 2026
Three first information reports were filed against 14 identified and more than 200 unidentified persons on Saturday in connection with clashes between the police and student protesters a day...
Scroll.inby Nachiket Deuskar23 Aug 2026
At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Union ministers were handed report cards. They were not being assessed for their performance as ministers but on how active and effective they have been on social...
Scroll.inby Diya Sengupta23 Aug 2026
Having read several of Saikat Majumdar’s novels and a couple of his non-fiction books, I consider him one of those rare contemporary writers who move seamlessly across fiction, nonfiction, and...
Scroll.inby Ankush Pal23 Aug 2026
India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation by Alan Johnson is an ambitious work of literary ecocriticism that attempts to trace the figure of the forest across approximately...
Scroll.inby Ramachandra Guha23 Aug 2026
In a late essay reflecting on his intellectual journey over the decades, Sumit Sarkar remarked: “So far, we Indian historians have written the histories that we wanted to write, following no agenda...
Scroll.inby Prerna Vij22 Aug 2026
This summer I picked up my friend’s half-read copy of Eula Biss’ Having and Being Had and read a hundred pages curled up on his sofa.
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff22 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Saturday set aside a 2017 National Green Tribunal order that held the Art of Living foundation responsible for damaging the Yamuna floodplains during its three-day event in...
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff22 Aug 2026
The Armed Forces Tribunal on Thursday upheld an administrative censure for a brigadier who was commanding a sector of the Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district in December 2023...
Scroll.inby Vibha Batra22 Aug 2026
Disclaimer: The following text is entirely human-authored. No “outside” help was sought to outline the piece. Editing was not outsourced to a “foreign hand”.
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff22 Aug 2026
The Maharashtra government disbursed Rs 9,605 crore to 92 lakh ineligible beneficiaries under its Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana in two years, reported the Hindustan Times citing data...
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff22 Aug 2026
Students protesting the Jharkhand High Court’s stay on the cancellation of recruitment appointments tried to burn effigies of Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Ranchi...
Scroll.inby Ashutosh Kumar Thakur22 Aug 2026
Poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, editor – Udayan Vajpeyi occupies a singular place in contemporary Indian literary life.
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff22 Aug 2026
Bangladesh has yet to decide whether Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will visit India next month, his office told PTI on Friday.
Scroll.inby Apurba Chatterjee, The Conversation22 Aug 2026
In 1825, English artist George Chinnery left Calcutta for Macau, chased away by his disgruntled wife Marianne and his creditors.
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar22 Aug 2026
For the past year, with the drawdown of US climate commitments under President Donald Trump and the slowing of Europe’s green ambitions following the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war...
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath22 Aug 2026
Tahmima Anam’s new novel, Uprising, is set on an isolated island “at the end of the country, in the middle of a river that emptied into the sea”.
Scroll.inby Kamna Singh22 Aug 2026
It was a hot May afternoon when I received the book. I tore through the parcel. A crisp shade of electric blue emerged from the dusty yellow envelope. The cover read: Gangrene.
Scroll.inby John Kurien22 Aug 2026
I first learned to think about ethanol as a fault line in conversations with my friend Joan Martinez Alier, a political ecologist.
Scroll.inby Grace Carroll, The Conversation21 Aug 2026
Around 15 years ago, I created a Facebook page for my cat, Sandi. Friends thought it was weird. Today, social media accounts for cats attract millions of followers, cats travel in backpacks and...
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