Following The Clouds
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Why Goa's fishermen are angry this monsoon
As a state directive restricts fishing during the rains, Karnataka boats are depleting stocks in Goan waters.
Mridula Chari
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Wine, fruit, revelry and other colours of Goa's feast of São João
The celebrations became a blur of flower-crowned people jumping into wells to pray for rain.
Harsha Vadlamani
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How a Goan fisherman escaped the southwest monsoon by boat
More than 20 years ago, Bernard de Souza made the risky voyage around the Indian peninsula to Vishakapatnam just so that he could continue fishing.
Mridula Chari
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Mangalore's age-old tiles survive the shift towards cement
Tiles from this region were used across India, especially to make roofs, because they withstood even heavy rain, find Scroll.in's Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani
Mridula Chari
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Draupadi's Sari: A strip of rock in Dakshina Kannada is one of the reasons for anti-dam protest
Small dams entail fewer human and environmental costs than large dams, but some remain small only on paper, find Scroll.in's Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani.
Mridula Chari
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Goa's feast of São João has wild flowers, feni – and jumping into wells
Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani arrive in the coastal state just in time for the celebrations, when alcohol flows more abundantly than usual and people look to god for a good monsoon.
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Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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In one of India's wettest places, researchers chase and find new species of snakes in the wild
Since 2012, the Kalinga Centre for Rainforest Ecology in the Western Ghats has discovered 41 snake species, six of which are unique to the area.
Mridula Chari
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States squabble over water, but the Cauvery's fishermen face different problems
Fishing communities that earn their living from the Cauvery appear strangely insulated from the battle over its waters but face great pressures of their own.
Mridula Chari
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Waiting for the jaggery clouds: how the monsoon seeps through Kerala's language and songs
Scroll.in's Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani have not found much of a monsoon in Kerala, but have come across a fair bit of folklore about it.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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How the FIFA World Cup is reviving the fortunes of an ancient shipyard in Kerala
The Scroll.in team fails to find rain in Calicut. Instead, they come across a shipyard building luxury yachts for the sheikh of Qatar to use for the 2022 World Cup.
Mridula Chari
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What the monsoon means for me: KA Verghese, farmer
The Scroll.in team is exploring how the rains affect India's economy and ecology, culture and agriculture.
Mridula Chari
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In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve a rare variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem
As Scroll.in’s Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and shrimp cultivation.
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The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game