Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Our City That Year’ is on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by Daisy Rockwell from the original 1998 Hindi novel Hamara Shahar Us Baras, is one of the 13 books longlisted for the 10th annual award of the...
‘I brought her up with such loving care’: Tagore writes about missing his daughter after marriage
Scroll.inby Uma Das Gupta·10d ago
In one of his letters to his wife, Mrinalini Devi, Rabindranath wrote: I do constantly try not to worry about our children.
Karnataka SIR: EC says it will take action against bulk applications to delete voters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer V Anbu Kumar on Thursday said that legal action would be initiated against anyone found to be filing bulk Form 7 applications to remove voters during the special...
‘#Love’ review: Ample chemistry smoothens out the creases in the writing
Scroll.inby Udita Jhunjhunwala·10d ago
Balaji Mohan’s six-episode Tamil series on Netflix sets up a wager between chemistry and compatibility. What makes two people fall in love: chemistry or compatibility?
Uttarakhand gym owner ‘Mohammed’ Deepak arrested for allegedly assaulting trader
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Dehradun gym owner Deepak Kumar, who had opposed the harassment of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper by alleged Bajrang Dal members in January, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a...
Delhi Metro shuts 11 stations ahead of protest calling for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Entry and exit at 11 Delhi Metro stations were shut on Friday, ahead of a proposed protest at Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for alleged...
Futile for Indians to believe they are ‘Aryans’: How Gandhi inspired Du Bois to reimagine the world
Scroll.inby Archishman Raju·10d ago
In 1936, the African American scholar and activist WEB Du Bois wrote an article for The Aryan Path, a magazine published out of Mumbai that advocated Theosophical views but also carried articles on...
Ujjain: Portion of mosque damaged during road-widening work days after unrest
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
A portion of the Shahi Masjid in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain was damaged on Thursday when the municipal corporation was demolishing a minaret for a road-widening project, The Indian Express reported.
From Azad Hind Radio to Gandhi: The forgotten Indian story of Surinamese composer Majoie Hajary
Scroll.inby Sujit Sinha·10d ago
Any serious conversation about Gandhi and music would be incomplete without discussing a French record from 1968.
South India’s history: When French and English trading companies fought for control of Cuddalore
Scroll.inby Venkatesh Parthasarathy·10d ago
The fundamental weakness of the French was the lack of a naval force to oppose the English naval dominance in Indian waters.
Review: ‘Pooja Meri Jaan’ leads viewers on, like its accused heroine
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·10d ago
He loves her madly and deeply. Her feelings towards him are not quite clear. When he dies by suicide because she refuses to marry him, she becomes the target of public outrage, slander and a...
‘Drishyam The Conclusion’ review: Vijay Salgaonkar faces a new adversary – but barely
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·10d ago
Jeethu Joseph’s Drishyam films have yielded remakes in several languages, most profitably in Hindi.
As a Bengal seat goes to bye-polls, SIR deleted voters are stuck in limbo
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·10d ago
“These are only bye-elections, that’s all.” Jharna Khatun, 22, frowned when she heard what Chief Justice Surya Kant had said in the Supreme Court on Monday.
The start of a run can feel like a fight against your body – and that is normal
Scroll.inby Richard Taylor, The Conversation·10d ago
Many runners describe the first ten to 15 minutes of a run as the hardest of all. Breathing can feel laboured, the legs can feel heavy and a pace that would normally seem manageable may suddenly...
Fiction: The Hatuas navigate a world where ancient traditions are being eroded by modern industry
Scroll.inby Nalini Bera·11d ago
On our way to school, instead of going via Nilkuthi in Kusturiya village, we sometimes took a shortcut via Babu Ghar in Rohini. I, especially, took that shortcut quite often.
Monsoon ends with 12.6% rainfall deficit, driest season in a decade
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
The southwest monsoon ended on Wednesday with a 12.6% deficit in rainfall, said the India Meteorological Department.
‘No one to protect us’: In Manipur, civilians easy targets as armed groups step up violence
Scroll.inby Rokibuz Zaman·11d ago
The Sunday church service had just ended in the hill-top village of Longpi in Manipur’s Noney district on the afternoon of September 13.
Arunachal: Vehicle torched, MLA’s home vandalised during protests against Siang dam
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
Protests by residents of the Siang basin in Arunachal Pradesh against a proposed multipurpose dam intensified on Wednesday, as demonstrators clashed with security personnel and set a police vehicle...
‘Satire must remain free’: Cartoonists push back after Meta blocks works by Satish Acharya, Manjul
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
After Meta restricted the work of political cartoonists Satish Acharya and Manjul about the Election Commission in India, their colleagues responded with cartoons of their own, saying that “satire...
Congress workers booked for attempt to murder for ‘defacing’ CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s home in Agra
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
A case of attempt to murder and rioting was registered against Congress workers on Tuesday for allegedly defacing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s ancestral home in Agra during a protest...
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