National law school Bengaluru cancels Umar Khalid documentary screening, 2 days after IIIT Hyderabad
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21d ago
A student committee at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru has cancelled the screening of a documentary about jailed activist Umar Khalid on its campus, The Hindu reported on...
A new book follows the lives of climate refugees from Bangladesh after Cyclone Aila in 2009
Scroll.inby Nidhi Dugar Kundalia·21d ago
Water seems the bane of her life, following Nur from the Sundarbans all the way here. In the monsoons, it collects in crevices between homes, creating a sweet nesting spot for mosquitoes.
Start the week with a film: In winning comedy ‘Best of the Best’, friendship needs delicate footwork
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21d ago
Childhood friends on a journey of self-discovery participate in a dance competition that causes a rift between them – it sounds like a Bollywood film. But it isn’t.
Why Indian zoos are unsafe for staff
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Rathore·21d ago
Kamla Devi never thought that a casual conversation with a colleague would save her life. On the morning of September 2, Kamla, her sister Sugna Devi and five other women were cutting grass in a...
‘Dechoma and the Women of Mahe’: This novel maps girlhood between beauty and its absence
Scroll.inby Aratrika Ghosh·22d ago
For much of Dechoma and the Women of Mahe, young Umaiba is watching women. She gazes at them as they apply surma, worry about how they look, and slip through emotions she cannot yet name.
Chhattisgarh: 19 Bengali workers detained on suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshis released
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22d ago
Nineteen of the 23 migrant workers from West Bengal’s Murshidabad who had been detained in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh earlier this month on suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi...
Sunday book pick: A murder is announced in Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·22d ago
“‘But no matter how much they tossed the story back and forth, no one could explain to me how poor Santiago Nasar ended up being involved in such a mix-up.’ The only thing they knew for sure was...
Bengal SIR: EC says it may increase number of appellate tribunals to 42 from 19
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22d ago
The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that it may increase the number of appellate tribunals in West Bengal to 42, corresponding to the number of parliamentary constituencies in the...
FIR filed against IIT-B professor after student dies by suicide, parents allege caste discrimination
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22d ago
The Mumbai Police on Saturday filed a first information report against a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, a day after a student at the institute died by suicide, The Times of...
‘White Elephant’: Jeyamohan’s excellent novel is backed by an equally excellent translation
Scroll.inby Madhulika Liddle·22d ago
On Chennai’s Kamaraja Salai, just off Marina Beach, stands a large circular building now known as Vivekanandar Illam, after Swami Vivekananda, who stayed here for a while.
Ramachandra Guha: India needs fearless civil liberties activists more than ever
Scroll.inby Ramachandra Guha·22d ago
I work mostly by myself, and have resisted joining alumni associations and WhatsApp groups. I am, in other words, broadly of the same mind as Groucho Marx, who famously said that he would never...
‘The Yellow Metaphor’: Jiban Narah’s poetry signifies luminous precarity through the yellow colour
Scroll.inby Kamal Saikia·23d ago
Jiban Narah’s collection of Assamese lyrics, The Yellow Metaphor, has been translated into English by Anindita Kar.
‘And I Am the Arrow’: Pia Ghosh-Roy’s debut novel has a deeply generous heart despite minor flaws
Scroll.inby Saudha Kasim·23d ago
Sylvia Plath – or rather her ghost – appears quite early in the proceedings in And I Am the Arrow, Pia Ghosh-Roy’s debut novel about three generations of women living in a 1940s Art Deco mansion in...
After Nandigram, Mamata Banerjee’s Rejinagar candidate says he will withdraw from bye-poll
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction’s nominee for the Assembly bye-elections in West Bengal’s Rejinagar said he will withdraw his candidature, NDTV reported on Saturday.
‘Robust streak of common sense’: How Sree Narayana Guru’s biographer Shashi Tharoor sees his subject
Scroll.inby Mohd Farhan·23d ago
The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism is Shashi Tharoor’s account of one of the most intriguing spiritual leaders and social reformers of modern India, Sree Narayana Guru.
Trump signs bill allowing 100% tariffs on India, other countries for buying Russian oil
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
United States President Donald Trump on Friday gave his assent to a legislation that allows him to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and other countries that purchase Russian oil and gas.
India’s hollow political parties can’t a make solid democracy
Scroll.inby Debasish Roy Chowdhury·23d ago
High drama erupted in the small hours of a suspense-filled January day in Kolkata. Masked officers of the Enforcement Directorate swept into the glossy offices of I-PAC (Indian Political Action...
EC says only 2.6% Bengal SIR appeals decided: Report
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that only 1 lakh of the 38.2 lakh appeals filed in tribunals against inclusions and exclusions made during the special intensive revision of...
‘Enough is enough’: Delhi HC slams authorities for failing to stop violence in student union polls
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that it could stay the counting of votes and declaration of results in the Delhi University Students’ Union elections if it was not satisfied with the...
In France, Marine Le Pen’s demand for hijab ban is legally flawed and at odds with secularism
Scroll.inby Lauren Bakir, The Conversation·24d ago
The ban on Islamic headscarves in public spaces in France – particularly on the street – is a proposal put forward by the Rassemblement national party led by Marine Le Pen that resurfaces with...
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