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With technology permeating our sleep, what does the future hold?
From dream management to wakefulness drugs and sleep cycle trackers, new technology is changing sleep faster than scientists can keep up.
Catherine Coveney, The Conversation & Eric L Hsu, The Conversation
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Lights, lanterns, prayer recitations : How countries and cultures celebrate Buddha’s many birthdays
Siddhartha Gautam’s birth has been observed in different parts of Asia for hundreds of years, but its significance varied by region.
Megan Bryson, The Conversation
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How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?
For decades, researchers have been trying to identify the simians on a Minoan mural in Santorini. Are they African or Indian? Opinions are deeply divided.
Kamayani Sharma
Trending
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Interview: India’s exaggerated value and the danger of S Jaishankar’s ‘new world order’ posturing
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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Arrested, acquitted: Jigna Vora recounts her trauma after being accused in journalist J Dey’s murder
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Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?
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Political leaders in Nepal object to ‘Akhand Bharat’ mural in new Parliament
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Watch: Cast of the ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ musical performs in New York’s Times Square
The performers kicked off their North American tour in thirteen cities across the country by dancing to ‘Jab Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya’.
Scroll Staff
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‘Shaken, not stirred’: The rise, fall and rise again of the famous martini cocktail
From appletinis, ‘flirtinis’ to French martinis and espresso martinis, the drink has had a long history and many variations.
Ursula Kennedy, The Conversation
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On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes
Sent by the State Department to change Indians’ perception of the US, Jay Saunders Redding found that the story he wanted to tell didn’t have many takers.
Anu Kumar
Video
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Watch: Actor Vadivelu and AR Rahman perform the song ‘Raasa Kannu’ in Chennai
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Watch: Staff cheers as dog shot during robbery gets discharged from hospital two months later
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Watch: Cricketers Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard engage in a hilarious debate over IPL’s top team
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‘So beautiful’: Fan’s special song combining several tunes by Shreya Ghoshal moves the musician
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Caught on CCTV: Constable saves passenger being dragged while boarding a moving train
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A new cookbook offers recipes from India and around the world that anyone can easily make at home
An excerpt from ‘Servings: Simple Yet Exotic’, by Roopali Mohanti.
Roopali Mohanti
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Remembering the first major Carnatic music concert in the United States
A group of five young classical musicians from Madras spent two months in the US in the autumn of 1962, performing in New York and Washington DC.
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Drumming up love for Kashmiri language, through Insta reels and YouTube videos
A handful of enthusiasts is using internet to draw youngsters to their native tongue, which increasingly plays second fiddle to Urdu and English in the Valley.
Safwat Zargar
The Reel
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach
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‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’ review: Duck-and-dive comedy is a hit-and-miss affair
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‘School of Lies’ review: An overloaded saga of secrets and trauma
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‘Mumbaikar’ review: A dated, draining exercise
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Review: In ‘Fire in the Mountains’, the enormous burden of womanhood
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Carrots and sticks: How food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships
For centuries, European shipowners hired lascars as cheap labour, paying them little and feeding them even less.
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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Tracing the culinary history of Kochi’s breudher bread
Bequeathed by Dutch colonists, breudher has been slowly disappearing from Kochi’s bakeries but not from its mind.
Ananya Rajoo
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Watch: Martha Stewart, 81, makes history as the oldest ‘Sports Illustrated’ swimsuit cover star
‘I was motivated to show people that woman my age can still look good, feel good,’ the American businesswoman said.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Hockey, FIH Pro League, India vs Belgium as it happened: Harmanpreet Singh and Co win 5-1
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Wrestlers’ protest: Members of 1983 World Cup team issue statement – ‘Disturbed by unseemly visuals’
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Thailand Open Super 500: Lakshya Sen reaches his first semi-final of 2023; Kiran George’s run ends
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Pro League: Harmanpreet Singh – ‘We are not letting the two losses last week play on our minds’
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IPL 2023: MS Dhoni doing well after knee surgery, confirms CSK CEO