A Swedish woman’s search for her Indian mother uncovers another tale of baby snatched at birth

With adoption laws virtually non-existent before 1980s, many children were forcibly taken away from birth mothers.

Roli Srivastava, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· 2 hours ago

How a Gujarati immigrant went to Johannesburg and set up a legendary hat-making store

Established in 1932, Mabro Hats even had Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as one of its customers.

Dilip Menon,The Conversation

· 3 hours ago

A festival in Goa shows that jackfruit (not mango) may be the king of fruits

Coffee, pickles, cattle fodder – is there anything the tree can’t be used for?

Pamela D’Mello

· 7 hours ago

Watch: How a satirist schools insensitive holocaust tourists

‘YOLO-caust’: Tourists shamed for taking insensitive selfies at holocaust sites

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· 8 hours ago

Watch: This comedian has a perfect response to why Tamils don’t speak Hindi. Remember ‘Lungi Dance’?

It’s revenge for the lyrics of the super-hit dance number from ‘Chennai Express’.

Scroll Staff

· 9 hours ago

Did Ambedkar want Dalits to wear three-piece suits? A clothing label raises some sartorial questions

Chandra Bhan Prasad believes his new label for Dalits, Zero Plus, is a social experiment against discrimination.

Sunaina Kumar

· 11 hours ago

Watch: An American soldier’s sketches of living through World War II are eye-opening

Victor Lundy’s 158 pencil drawings are a vivid depiction of the gruesome, yet touching, experience of a soldier.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 09:00 pm

Why 200 people did not see a dead Muslim teenager on a railway platform in North India

The police cannot find a witness to the murder of Junaid on Thursday. Both citizens and the state have become blind to injustice.

Aarti Sethi

· Yesterday · 04:11 pm

A Nobel laureate’s tale of a donkey finds expression in an Indian photographer’s images of his dog

Anurag Banerjee’s exhibition reinterprets Juan Ramón Jiménez’s book on Andalusia.

Paroma Mukherjee

· Yesterday · 03:30 pm

The class divide in Indian schools is growing and we need to talk about it

iPads, iPods and Yeezy sneakers: Should children get every thing they ask for?

Karishma Attari

· Yesterday · 11:30 am

After teen is lynched on train, young men from his village are afraid of looking ‘too Muslim’

Faridabad’s Khandawli village is still trying to make sense of the brutal attack on Junaid and his brothers on Thursday evening.

Nishita Jha

· Yesterday · 06:30 am

#Femvertising: Indian advertisements are slowly trying to overturn sexist notions

India's advertisements not only challenge but also reverse the dominant roles that Indian men assume with the women in their lives.

Michelle Mielly, The Conversation

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Nandita Sood Perret, The Conversation

· Jun 26, 2017 · 09:30 pm