2017: The year India’s stand-up comics took a stroll even as they had a chance to run wild

The good, the bad and the unfunny of stand-up comedy.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Dec 30, 2017 · 11:30 am

Video: Why 2017 was a watershed year for stand-up comedy in India

Scroll.in spoke with comedians like Kanan Gill, Radhika Vaz and a few others from the industry on how Indian stand-up comedy truly came into its own in 2017.

Shibika Suresh

· Dec 29, 2017 · 04:00 pm

Video: How in 2017, Yogi Adityanath’s aggressive Hindutva politics finally paid off

His journey has quite a few highlights. But the year 2017 is a significant one for politician Adityanath.

Neelima

· Dec 28, 2017 · 08:45 am

Video: How the #MeToo protests broke the silence surrounding sexual assault and harassment

Feminist historian V Geetha on the list that named and shamed alleged sexual predators and how the struggle against sexual harassment took shape over the years.

Smitha Nair

· Dec 27, 2017 · 08:45 am

Video: Supreme Court restores Hadiya’s marriage to Shafin Jahan

Here’s an explainer on how Hadiya became the face of a woman’s fight for personal autonomy.

Smitha Nair

· Dec 26, 2017 · 04:00 pm

2017 in review: The year when Indian hip-hop cemented its place on the music charts

Artists have come of age with cutting-edge videos, provocative lyrics and a larger share of the mainstream spotlight.

Aakash Karkare

· Dec 26, 2017 · 03:30 pm

The 2017 playlist: The year’s best earworms, from ‘Entammede Jimikki Kammal’ to ‘Karuppu Vellai’

A rundown of the film songs that rocked the charts across Indian languages this year.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Dec 26, 2017 · 09:15 am

Video: From jallikattu to Tamil Nadu politics, 2017 was an eventful year for Kamal Haasan

The actor finally seems to have answered whether he will dip his feet into electoral politics.

Ramakrishnan M

· Dec 26, 2017 · 08:45 am

Bollywood in 2017: The best films and performances (or the year Rajkummar Rao dominated the show)

The list includes Rajkummar Rao’s ‘Newton’ and ‘Trapped’, ‘Tumhari Sulu’ and ‘Mukti Bhawan’.

Nandini Ramnath

· Dec 25, 2017 · 09:15 am

Bollywood in 2017: Eight trends that marked the year

Censorship is the film industry’s biggest nightmare; nepotism still rocks; women are headlining more movies than before.

Nandini Ramnath

· Dec 24, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Bollywood 2017: The 15 duds of the year, also known as Why Did they Even Bother?

A month-by-month parade of the films that were outright write-offs, including ‘Rangoon’, ‘Tubelight’, Haseena Parkar’ and ‘A Gentleman’.

Nandini Ramnath

· Dec 23, 2017 · 08:15 am

Bollywood in 2017: What the success of ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’ tells us about the year’s soundtracks

Every tune is infectious, and every tune plays like something you’ve heard before.

Amit Gurbaxani

· Dec 21, 2017 · 08:15 am