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View from the Margins: For Adivasis of Kerala, the state is not always a shining example of equality
Leela Santhosh, an Adivasi filmmaker, says her community suffers from prejudice and neglect, no matter which party rules at the Centre.
Johanna Deeksha
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
A National Green Tribunal report says that close to 2,75,000 tyres are discarded in India every day, leading to disastrous consequences for the environment.
Scroll Staff
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‘Wayel Kati’: Linthoi Chanu’s book proves that conflict is not the narrative of Manipur
‘Those in power have failed us,’ said Chanu, the author of the recently published novel ‘Wayel Kati: The Quest of the Seven Guardians’.
Jane Borges
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
Maisam Ali’s feature debut has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s sidebar programme ACID Cannes.
Nandini Ramnath
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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
Authoritarianism crushes the spirit. Majoritarianism poisons the mind and the heart. Their rise must be stopped.
Ramachandra Guha
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Mine but not really mine: Why ‘owning’ digital items doesn’t feel the same
Our music, films, books and photographs are increasingly accessed via digital platforms rather than stored on our shelves.
Rebecca Mardon, The Conversation
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In the Nilgiris, hybrids in different shades of brown indicate intermingling of langur species
The Nilgiri langur and the Hanuman langur reside at different elevations in the same regions.
Arathi Menon
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‘I stopped at an essential ambiguity’: How Sharmistha Mohanty wrote ‘Book One’ thirty years ago
‘Art is a process, not a product. A book is only the ending of a process perhaps, for the time being, a process which will continue through another work.’
Sayari Debnath
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Global fiction in April: Six recently published books from old favourites and new writers
André Aciman and Percival Everett are back.
Scroll Staff
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow.
Scroll Staff
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‘Rescuing a River Breeze’: A joyful romp through mid-20th century Goa
Mrinalini Harchandrai is an acclaimed poet and she deftly brings this quality to her novel, the emotions she evokes, and the characters she draws.
Selma Carvalho
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
This Mumbai security guard works 18 hours a day to earn what he did five years ago, but does not blame the Modi government for his difficult life.
Tabassum Barnagarwala
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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language
‘Knife’ is an exceptional book written in exceptional circumstances by a writer who wanted to ‘answer violence with art’.
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Listen: Baramasa compositions that describe the imagery of the seasons
Thumris by Shobha Gurtu, Sipra Bose and Shubha Mudgal.
Aneesh Pradhan
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
The HD Deve Gowda-led JD(S) faces an existential crisis. A poor performance could see it lose sway over the state’s significant Vokkaliga community to the BJP.
TA Ameerudheen
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Is chewing gum the way to a healthier diet?
The answer is no and here’s why.
Sandra Sunram-Lea, The Conversation
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In Switzerland, the ‘no-blame’ approach brings bullies and bullied students together
Punishing the perpetrators tends to worsen the bullying for the victim. Encouraging an open discussion instead helps change the social dynamic.
Michaela Haas, The Human Journalism Network
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Speculative short fiction: Grounded airships, storms, and a love that could have been
An excerpt from ‘Whirlwind’ in ‘Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World’, by Gigi Ganguly.
Gigi Ganguly