In Indian elections, wheelchair users like me can be denied our dignity – and vote

After all these years, why can’t the Election Commission provide accessibility for voting right up until the voting machine?

Ajitkumar Nambiar, qz.com

· May 02, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Eating rotten fruit and shivering in rage: How a Kerala workshop taught me to accept life as it is

At Koodiyattam exponent G Venu’s Navarasa Sadhana workshop, performers experience all navarasas and bhavas.

Parshathy J Nath

· Apr 28, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘They’re angry with me for a crime someone else has committed’: The grief of a Kashmiri in Hyderabad

How friendships have become strained after the Pulwama attack.

Rouf Fida

· Feb 23, 2019 · 08:00 am

Numb and weak, a tailor in Rajasthan stops his TB treatment despite the risks

Diagnosed with multi drug resistant-TB, he went through a painful medication regime without counselling support only to have his health worsen.

Shivlal Chauhan

· Feb 06, 2019 · 02:30 pm

Kashmir’s exiled Pandits don’t know what to go back to – even if they do eventually return

The hope they kept alive in their hearts for more than quarter of a century is diminishing.

Siddhartha Gigoo

· Jan 19, 2019 · 08:00 am

Patient diary: Fighting twin battles against TB and depression is physically, emotionally consuming

The stigma attached to these conditions can create a dome of silence and loneliness.

Ashna

· Jan 07, 2019 · 02:30 pm

Nandita Das: ‘Kuldip Nayar prevented an idealist like me from falling into the trap of cynicism’

The actor and director reflects on her friendship with the veteran journalist who died last month.

Nandita Das

· Sep 09, 2018 · 07:30 pm

How a WhatsApp group helped an Indian woman embrace her disability

The group helps me navigate the world, which is rife with ableism and sexism.

Antara Telang

· Aug 29, 2018 · 11:30 am

India needs to understand that living with a disability makes me neither ‘helpless’ nor ‘heroic’

In most people’s eyes, my disability isn’t something I live with, it is something I suffer from.

Preeti Singh

· Apr 27, 2018 · 11:30 am

Backpacking through India with foreigners, I learned some hard truths about myself and my country

While we consider guests to be gods, Indians are often judgemental towards foreign tourists.

Omkar Khandekar

· Apr 09, 2018 · 11:30 am

As the ‘Himalayan Journal’ turns 90, its editor explains the highs and lows of the job

‘The Himalaya have never been far from my consciousness.’

Nandini Purandare

· Feb 18, 2018 · 03:30 pm

‘My heart stopped’: An Indian shark anthropologist writes about his encounter with a Great White

‘She was not a monster, she was energy.’

Raj Sekhar Aich

· Feb 09, 2018 · 11:30 am