Newsletters
Gift Membership
Become a member
Subscribe
Get app
Sign in
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
ANDROID
iOS
Gift Membership
Home
Common Ground
The India Fix
Eco India
The Latest
The Reel
Magazine
Video
Trending
How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
Proposed Waqf Act amendments strike a discriminatory note for Muslim charitable organisations
Comrades in majoritarianism: Why Sri Lanka’s Left parties are steeped in ethnonationalist politics
‘No Pausa’ walks with women on long road through menopause
Trying a ‘digital detox’? Four ways to make it a success
Why King Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah and devadasi Bhagmati’s marriage is integral to Hyderabad’s history
After Lok Sabha polls setback, how the BJP is trying to make an outreach to Dalit voters
Family history: A writer investigates why her great-grandfather chose to sail to South Africa
A book of real-life accounts from the Indian Air Force honours those who took part in the 1962 war
How the Sri Lankan civil war made its way into a French film about an undercover cop
Hounded around the world, the first ‘man-made man’ took refuge in India
Maharastra polls: Mahayuti candidates’ wealth grew 17 times faster than average Indian’s, says study
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
Superstitions
Indian Science Congress postponed amid tussle with Centre’s science and technology department
Niladry Sarkar
· Feb 17, 2024 · 07:30 pm
Where do superstitions come from?
Dimitris Xygalatas, The Conversation
· Dec 23, 2022 · 11:30 pm
Minor girls paraded naked in Madhya Pradesh village to ‘appease rain god’
Scroll Staff
· Sep 07, 2021 · 01:09 pm
Watch: Superstitions are amusing already, and this comedian serves them with a side of extra humour
Scroll Staff
· Mar 17, 2018 · 05:00 pm
Hyderabad: Couple arrested for beheading 3-month-old girl during ‘human sacrifice’ ritual
Scroll Staff
· Feb 16, 2018 · 03:41 pm
What's the secret behind our much-loved sports rituals and superstitions? The illusion of control
Keis Ohtsuka, The Conversation
· Dec 15, 2016 · 09:00 pm
China's Communist Party reinforces member ban on superstition
Scroll Staff
· Jan 04, 2016 · 09:06 pm
