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

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Eric L Hsu, The Conversation

· 5 hours ago

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

· May 31, 2023 · 09:30 pm

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

· May 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

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

· May 29, 2023 · 11:00 am

‘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

· May 27, 2023 · 11:30 pm

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

· May 27, 2023 · 11:30 am

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

· May 25, 2023 · 01:30 pm

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

· May 24, 2023 · 11:30 am

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

· May 21, 2023 · 06:30 am

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

· May 20, 2023 · 11:30 am

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

· May 18, 2023 · 11:30 am

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

· May 16, 2023 · 02:25 pm