• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
    • How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea
    • Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
    • Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim
    • What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times
    • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
    • India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
    • For very young readers: Four picture books about the true joys of childhood
    • How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt
    • ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women
    • Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
    • The Congolese philosopher who liberated ‘Africa’ from the chains of Western thought
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

Ad
OTHERS ARE

Reading icon icon

  • A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
    1

    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

  • How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea
    2

    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

  • Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
    3

    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

  • Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim
    4

    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim

  • What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times
    5

    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

  • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
    6

    Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle

  • India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
    7

    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

  • For very young readers: Four picture books about the true joys of childhood
    8

    For very young readers: Four picture books about the true joys of childhood

  • How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt
    9

    How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt

  • ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women
    10

    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

Viral Video

Watch: This is the world’s tallest Eiffel Tower replica made with matches

Richard Plaud from France spent eight years building his 23.6-foot model from more than 706,000 matches and 23 kg of glue.

Scroll Staff
Feb 11, 2024 · 10:47 am
Read in App

Frenchman Richard Plaud said he had been on an 'emotional rollercoaster' this week after initially being rejected by the Guinness World Records, and then validated a day later, for his matchstick Eiffel Tower model as the world's tallest https://t.co/DWlJT7Tx60 pic.twitter.com/AWIH7tTjcd

— Reuters Asia (@ReutersAsia) February 10, 2024
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by richard Plaud (@toureiffelallumettes)

Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in.
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Paris

Related

Watch: This inflight safety demonstration video is inspired by British period drama

Watch: This inflight safety demonstration video is inspired by British period drama

Trending

  1. A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

  2. How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

  3. Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

  4. Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim

    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim

  5. What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

Ad