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  • ‘And above all light’: Writer Tishani Doshi on the ‘truthfulness’ of ‘truth’

    ‘And above all light’: Writer Tishani Doshi on the ‘truthfulness’ of ‘truth’

    Tishani Doshi
    · Mar 15, 2025 · 07:30 am
  • In this essay, Amitav Ghosh writes about his memories of 9/11 as a resident of Brooklyn, New York

    In this essay, Amitav Ghosh writes about his memories of 9/11 as a resident of Brooklyn, New York

    Amitav Ghosh
    · Jan 10, 2025 · 08:30 am
  • Opinion: Novelist and professor Saikat Majumdar on humanities education in a post-truth world

    Opinion: Novelist and professor Saikat Majumdar on humanities education in a post-truth world

    Saikat Majumdar
    · Aug 17, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala

    What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala

    Anees Salim
    · Jun 10, 2023 · 01:30 pm
  • Conservation biologist Neha Sinha’s essay shortlisted for inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize

    Conservation biologist Neha Sinha’s essay shortlisted for inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 18, 2022 · 02:20 pm
  • The organic intellectual, mystical poetry, and the rationalist tradition in India today

    The organic intellectual, mystical poetry, and the rationalist tradition in India today

    Amit Chaudhuri
    · Aug 10, 2022 · 08:30 am
  • Naseeruddin Shah essay: ‘What makes for truth in acting?’

    Naseeruddin Shah essay: ‘What makes for truth in acting?’

    Naseeruddin Shah
    · Sep 12, 2021 · 09:15 am
  • How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little help from a hen)

    How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little help from a hen)

    Anu Kumar
    · Apr 03, 2021 · 10:30 am