India’s Covid-19 crisis is a product of the paranoid governance that has marked the past seven years

Modi has refused to take responsibility for the toxic combination of incompetence and authoritarianism that marks his government’s actions.

Rohit Chopra

· 9 hours ago

Narendra Modi used India’s media elite for his own advantage. Sanjaya Baru explains how he did it

An excerpt from India’s ‘Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution’, by Sanjaya Baru.

Sanjaya Baru

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Pakistani YouTubers to release a Pashto version of blockbuster Turkish show ‘Dirilis: Ertugrul’

The historical drama is wildly popular in Pakistan.

Fazal Khaliq, Dawn.com

· Apr 20, 2021 · 08:51 pm

India’s plan to fragment the vaccine market across the states is mind-bogglingly bad economics

Vaccine manufacturers will now be able to play off one Indian state against the other. The rich will get their vaccines, at the cost of the poor.

Ashish Kulkarni

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Murali Neelakantan

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

The secrets behind ‘Geeli Pucchi’, the most loved film in ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’

‘I like grey shades’, director Neeraj Ghaywan tells ‘Scroll.in’.

Udita Jhunjhunwala

· Yesterday · 10:30 am

What you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy

The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame for shortages or high prices.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· 6 hours ago

What could be driving Delhi’s devastating fourth Covid-19 surge?

We need to junk the assumption that high prior infection rate protects a city against big surges.

Murad Banaji

· 2 hours ago

How Kabir Bedi interviewed The Beatles in 1966 (and asked John Lennon if he took drugs)

Edited excerpts from the actor’s memoir ‘Stories I Must Tell’.

Kabir Bedi

· 5 hours ago

Coronavirus: Pfizer will supply vaccine doses only through government channels

This means that the Pfizer vaccine will not be available through private hospitals unless the Centre or states sell shots to these medical facilities.

Scroll Staff

· 3 hours ago

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury’s son dies due to Covid; politicians, journalists offer condolences

Ashish Yechury, 35, had been admitted to the Holy Family hospital in Delhi two weeks ago but was later moved to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram.

Scroll Staff

· 6 hours ago

Fox News anchor laughs hysterically in response to officer criticising Chauvin, condemns verdict

Tucker Carlson cast doubt on the jurors who found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of the murder of George Floyd.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 09:11 pm

India is running out of oxygen, Covid-19 patients are dying – because the government wasted time

It took eight months to invite bids for over 150 oxygen generation plants costing just Rs 200 crore. Six months later, most still aren’t up and running.

Vijayta Lalwani

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Arunabh Saikia

· Apr 18, 2021 · 09:00 am