Caught on TV: Ex-Army officer wants ‘death for death, rape for rape’ in favour of Kashmiri Pandits

Some members of the audience supported the former officer’s views.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 04:38 pm

Raising good Indians: What early twentieth-century children’s journals in Hindi tried to teach

The early 1900s saw the rise of Hindi children’s journals such as ‘Balak’, ‘Balsakha’ and ‘Kanya Manorajan’, which tried to instil nationalist morals.

Simran Agarwal, Sahapedia

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

What the story of Medini Rai, the man who once took on Babur, tells us about biography and history

The complex life stories of men like him illuminate historical processes in ways that are missed by conventional accounts focused on the so-called big picture.

Aparna Kapadia

· An hour ago

$60 billion has been stolen. So why you haven’t heard about the robbery of the century?

Structured by two British bankers, the cum-ex trading scandal exploited loopholes in German tax laws and is so complicated that no one talks about it.

Alex Simpson, The Conversation

· Nov 16, 2019 · 09:30 pm

WhatsApp confirms new threat for some Android and iOS users from malicious video files

An Indian government agency rated the severity level of the vulnerability as ‘high’.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 07:24 pm

‘No one eats non-veg openly here’: Ahmedabad’s food lovers on the city’s cultural aversion to meat

New Irani Café’s famous maska-bun used to come with a layer of egg, until customers began asking for ‘Hindu-buns’.

Avantika Mehta

· Apr 05, 2017 · 11:30 am

Watch BJP leader and KBC Malayalam host Suresh Gopi’s response to a mention of ‘porotta, beef’

What happens when you tell a BJP leader that you like to order beef with your porotta?

Scroll Staff

· Nov 16, 2019 · 08:16 am

Watch: This advertisement tells a beautiful same sex love story, but some viewers feel cheated

Is it about the women or the car?

Scroll Staff

· Nov 15, 2019 · 10:10 am

Selfish and spoiled: Do only children deserve the bad rap they often get?

If we look at personality, no differences are found between people with and without siblings.

Ana Aznar, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 11:30 pm

As Delhi pollution levels soar, customers throng an ‘oxygen bar’ for a breath of fresh air

An entrepreneur sniffs a business opportunity.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Nov 16, 2019 · 06:30 am

The heartless way in which the British dealt with the widows of Indian soldiers

Pensions were allowed only to women in strained circumstances, and to those whose husbands had ‘performed really good service’.

Hedley Sutton

· Yesterday · 01:30 pm

A history lesson for the Tatas (and Indigo) as they consider buying out Air India

A look at the airline’s roller-coaster fortunes over the years.

Anvar Alikhan

· Jul 03, 2017 · 11:30 am