• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • Harsh Mander: The plunder and loot by private healthcare in India
    • Seven books by Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
    • ‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves
    • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
    • Why some Hindu-Americans are opposing the first South Asian to run in New York’s mayoral poll
    • Why the intricate art of weaving the Jamdani sari is endangered in Bangladesh
    • For children: Poltu’s holiday takes an unexpected turn when a train full of ghosts pulls up
    • Indian writer Nilanjana S Roy is on the 2026 judging panel for the International Booker Prize
    • Trump says US, Iran will hold talks next week
    • Policy scholar Yamini Aiyar’s new book shows what it means to be a Delhi government school teacher
    • For very young readers: Three new picture books on the mysteries of human and animal nature
    • Caste as seen through an Orientalist lens: The ironic legacy of 18th-century Company paintings
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

× Close
  • Inside the hellfires of India’s brick industry

    Inside the hellfires of India’s brick industry

    Shreya Raman
    · May 03, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • Met Gala 2023: From Alia Bhatt to Rihanna, a round-up of best looks from fashion’s big night

    Met Gala 2023: From Alia Bhatt to Rihanna, a round-up of best looks from fashion’s big night

    Scroll Staff
    · May 02, 2023 · 01:24 pm
  • The near-impossible task of restoring a blocked Twitter handle in India

    The near-impossible task of restoring a blocked Twitter handle in India

    Zafar Aafaq
    · May 01, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • Start the week with a film: ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ reimagines Charles Chaplin’s Tramp persona

    Start the week with a film: ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ reimagines Charles Chaplin’s Tramp persona

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 30, 2023 · 09:35 am
  • ‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid

    ‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid

    Sayari Debnath
    · Apr 30, 2023 · 07:30 am
  • ‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir

    ‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir

    Ajay Gandhi
    · Apr 29, 2023 · 01:30 pm
  • Wrestlers protest: Delhi Police register two FIRs against WFI chief after Supreme Court steps in

    Wrestlers protest: Delhi Police register two FIRs against WFI chief after Supreme Court steps in

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 28, 2023 · 05:22 pm
  • Wrestlers protest: Delhi Police register two FIRs against WFI chief after Supreme Court steps in

    Wrestlers protest: Delhi Police register two FIRs against WFI chief after Supreme Court steps in

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 28, 2023 · 03:17 pm
  • From a new book for birdwatchers: Meet the Black Drongo, aka King Crow

    From a new book for birdwatchers: Meet the Black Drongo, aka King Crow

    Aasheesh Pittie
    · Apr 28, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels

    2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘Life here flows on like the Tungabhadra’: The multi-faith and multi-ethnic identity of Hampi

    ‘Life here flows on like the Tungabhadra’: The multi-faith and multi-ethnic identity of Hampi

    Kishalay Bhattacharjee
    · Apr 27, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Watch three Hindi film songs that were inspired by Harry Belafonte hits

    Watch three Hindi film songs that were inspired by Harry Belafonte hits

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 26, 2023 · 02:16 pm
  • Singer, civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96

    Singer, civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 25, 2023 · 08:50 pm
  • ‘Essentialism’ explained: The ideas being used to justify gender differences and fixed identities

    ‘Essentialism’ explained: The ideas being used to justify gender differences and fixed identities

    Stan van Hooft, The Conversation
    · Apr 25, 2023 · 07:30 pm
  • Fiction: Inspector Ali returns to Lahore’s red-light area to cover up a young girl’s murder

    Fiction: Inspector Ali returns to Lahore’s red-light area to cover up a young girl’s murder

    Aamina Ahmad
    · Apr 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today

    Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today

    Matthew Sharpe, The Conversation
    · Apr 24, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • A new book explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of India’s ‘blasphemy law’

    A new book explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of India’s ‘blasphemy law’

    J Barton Scott
    · Apr 24, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Why Manipur’s tribes are alarmed by court push for Scheduled Tribe status for the Meitei community

    Why Manipur’s tribes are alarmed by court push for Scheduled Tribe status for the Meitei community

    Rokibuz Zaman
    · Apr 24, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • ‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free. That is how I’d like to retain myself’: Jeyamohan

    ‘As a writer I’m apolitical and spiritually free. That is how I’d like to retain myself’: Jeyamohan

    Priyamvada Ramkumar Suchitra Ramachandran
    · Apr 23, 2023 · 10:22 am
  • Why humans should go ahead and build telescopes on the Moon

    Why humans should go ahead and build telescopes on the Moon

    Ian Crawford, The Conversation
    · Apr 22, 2023 · 09:30 pm
Previous Next