What the relationship between the Palghat Iyers and Malayalis tells us about Kerala (and Tamils)

MK Das’s ‘Saga of Kalapathy’, focuses more on lore and less on statistics.

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

· Yesterday · 10:30 am

No tax refund, no working capital: How GST is hurting Indian exporters

Exporters claim that delays in refunds under the new tax code has tied up a substantial amount of their money, thus harming their businesses.

Mayank Jain

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

Third World Quarterly row: Why some western intellectuals are trying to debrutalise colonialism

The author explains why he resigned from the editorial board of the journal after it published an apologia for colonialism.

Vijay Prashad

· Sep 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Premchand’s 1934 essay on communalism and culture is eerily relevant in the India of 2017

‘I do not understand what is this culture that communalism is trying so desperately to preserve.’

Vedica Kant

· Yesterday · 06:30 pm

Why you should avoid Delhi's Chittaranjan Park during Pujo

The residents of Delhi's biggest Bengali locality might think they're doing things the Calcutta way. But everything from the pandals to the objects of lust is different.

Shovon Chowdhury

· Oct 02, 2014 · 07:11 pm

Myanmar Army says it has found bodies of 28 Hindus killed by Rohingya militants: AFP

Hindus living in Ye Baw Kya village said that militants had entered the village on August 25, killed many people and carried others off into the forest.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 08:49 pm

The big news: Pakistan goofs up at UN with wrong picture of Gaza girl, and nine other top stories

Other headlines: Banaras Hindu University officials denied the police baton-charged the students, and MK Stalin demanded CBI inquiry into Jayalalithaa’s death.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 08:37 pm

Cold war returns: Through soft power and propaganda, Russia is trying to topple democracy in the USA

The United States and its allies must project forceful arguments on democracy's appeal, and citizens must be wary of propaganda efforts.

Agnia Grigas

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Seth Freeman

· Yesterday · 11:30 pm

At the UN, Pakistan’s envoy passes off photo of girl injured in Gaza as a Kashmiri

The country’s UN Mission even tweeted the photo Rawya abu Jom’a at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and claimed it to be a picture from Kashmir.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 06:20 pm

Ideologies of Islamic State and India’s ultra-left groups now converging, says Arun Jaitley

The finance minister said the impact of Communism in West Bengal and Kerala was ‘drowning out’, and was being replaced by support for the BJP.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 08:30 pm

What happens when India’s Tinder generation searches for a match at a matrimonial event

Are Indians swiping right for sex, but turning to mummy and papa to find a spouse?

Aparna Kalra

· Aug 11, 2017 · 11:30 am

‘BHU’s failure to keep students safe is unforgivable’: Hindi lecturer Ian Woolford on police action

The only anti-nationalism on display is that of an administration who would invite police on campus to commit such brutality against students under its care.

Ian Woolford

· Yesterday · 07:00 pm