Eating a serving of nuts can help lower risk of hypertension, say researchers
Scroll.inby Shireen Kassam, The Conversation·29d ago
More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with high blood pressure (hypertension). It’s the single biggest metabolic risk factor for early death – driving diseases such as heart attacks, strokes...
‘Notes on the Rock of Job Charnock’: Kolkata emerges as a site of psychic inheritance in these poems
Scroll.inby Somya Tyagi·29d ago
Celebrated as the “Bard on the Banks of Dulung”, Jaydeep Sarangi, the prolific writer and poet from Jhargram, has a reputation that is indeed formidable.
News regulator fines Zee News Rs 2 lakh for ‘inflammatory’ coverage of pro-Palestine slogans at AMU
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29d ago
The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority on Friday fined Zee News Rs 2 lakh for its coverage of pro-Palestine slogans that were shouted during a student protest at Aligarh Muslim...
Appalled at Delhi Police detaining former civil servant, violating Constitution, say ex-bureaucrats
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29d ago
A group of former bureaucrats on Saturday said that they were appalled by the manner in which ex-civil servant Ashish Joshi was detained by the Delhi Police, describing it as a violation of the...
‘Under Water’: Tara Menon’s fragmented debut on grief and climate change never quite comes together
Scroll.inby Diya Isha·29d ago
When the reader meets Marissa, the protagonist of Tara Menon’s Under Water, all that could happen to her has already happened. The banality of a new, if lax, life taxes her.
Weaponising critical minerals, technology can hinder progress, warns PM Modi at BRICS summit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29d ago
Weaponising critical minerals and technology can hinder the shared progress of BRICS nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned at the grouping’s summit on Sunday.
How an inventive director made a film with a hen as its heroine
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·29d ago
Why did the hen cross the road? For freedom, adventure and meaning. The black-coloured hen with a crimson comb and piercing yellow eyes flees the coop at first chance.
The voice in the din: Why Vidyanand Bapat is making noise about noise
Scroll.inby Divya Aslesha·29d ago
On September 3, as Pune resident Vidyanand Bapat was being interviewed by a TV journalist on the busy Tilak Road, a man stepped up and slapped him.
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil to march to Mumbai, hold indefinite strike in Azad Maidan
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29d ago
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil announced on Saturday that he and his supporters will begin a march to Mumbai to hold an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan from September 19...
‘It is past and contemporary. And alive’: Writer Janice Pariat’s summer of living among archives
Scroll.inby Janice Pariat·29d ago
There are three things to know about archives. There is dust. They are endless. Did I mention dust?
‘She wanted power, like other ruling elites’: Historian Sarah Waheed on Deccan queen Chand Bibi
Scroll.inby Mallik Thatipalli·29d ago
Seven years ago, historian Sarah Waheed was killing time on a rainy afternoon in Hyderabad’s old city when she ducked into Haziq and Mohi, a second-hand bookstore whose spines, famously, carry no...
September global nonfiction: Six new titles about humankind’s greatest stories
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12 Sept 2026
All information sourced from publishers. A Dangerous Game: Thomas Cochrane’s Life on the Edge, Peter Moore The astonishing true story of Thomas Cochrane – naval hero, political radical and...
Bombay HC refuses to halt Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil’s march to Mumbai
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12 Sept 2026
The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to issue orders restraining Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil from holding a march to Mumbai.
‘The River of Grey Flowers’: Good intentions do not always a good novel make
Scroll.inby Shreya Khobragade·12 Sept 2026
Reading The River of Grey Flowers feels a lot like watching Dhurandhar. While Rejimon Kuttappan’s debut novel has none of Aditya Dhar’s right-wing nationalism, it succumbs to the same fatal flaw in...
Harish Rawat quits Congress posts after ED recovers cash, gold from his assistant
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12 Sept 2026
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat on Saturday resigned from two party posts after the Enforcement Directorate said that it recovered cash, jewellery and other...
How India opened a consulate in Odessa – and why it took years
Scroll.inby Ajay Kamalakaran·12 Sept 2026
When Indian foreign service officer PH Desai inaugurated his country’s consulate in Odessa in November 1962, the Black Sea port greeted the milestone with much fanfare.
Size matters: Why India has a stake in the African-led campaign to decolonise world maps
Scroll.inby Jael Silliman·12 Sept 2026
Maps are supposed to tell us what the world looks like – the names, shapes and sizes of landmasses and water bodies.
Why Kenya’s universal health reform is contentious
Scroll.inby Zil Audi-Poquillon, The Conversation·11 Sept 2026
For decades, Kenyans without health insurance have had one option when they fall sick, or a hospital bill arrives. Reach out to friends and family to gather what they can for their healthcare.
Mythological fiction: This Hindi novel in translation is about Sita’s life, in her own words
Scroll.inby Anamika·11 Sept 2026
Just as we pick up the paintbrush and draw a unique pattern, each woman finds a unique answer to this question in her own life.
Ex-TISS student arrested for alleged slogans supporting Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam granted bail
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11 Sept 2026
A Mumbai court has granted bail to Abhirup Paul, a former student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences arrested for allegedly shouting slogans in support of jailed activists Umar Khalid and...
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