• 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
    • Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
    • How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s
    • Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not
    • April global nonfiction: Six new books about the many ways human history has changed over the years
    • Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally
    • ‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
    • Right-wing attacks on academia are an existential threat to universities and democracy
    • Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s recipe for ‘chicken cooked like a vegetable’ from his food book
    • ‘Chhorii 2’ review: A well-crafted and performed scarefest about horrors old and new
    • Foreigners staying in US for over 30 days told to register with government or face arrest
    • The Communist Party turns 100 in India – but its legacy is paradoxical
    • A new book shows how a Bangalore NGO adopted hands-on methods to teach science to school students
  • 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

  • Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
    1

    Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
  • How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s
    2

    How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s
  • Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not
    3

    Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not
  • April global nonfiction: Six new books about the many ways human history has changed over the years
    4

    April global nonfiction: Six new books about the many ways human history has changed over the years
  • Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally
    5

    Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally
  • ‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
    6

    ‘The Last Knot’: An inventive novel that transports us to Kashmir’s era of tyranny under Dogra rule
  • Right-wing attacks on academia are an existential threat to universities and democracy
    7

    Right-wing attacks on academia are an existential threat to universities and democracy
  • Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s recipe for ‘chicken cooked like a vegetable’ from his food book
    8

    Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s recipe for ‘chicken cooked like a vegetable’ from his food book
  • ‘Chhorii 2’ review: A well-crafted and performed scarefest about horrors old and new
    9

    ‘Chhorii 2’ review: A well-crafted and performed scarefest about horrors old and new
  • Foreigners staying in US for over 30 days told to register with government or face arrest
    10

    Foreigners staying in US for over 30 days told to register with government or face arrest
Scroll

Watch: Why these Tajik men are abandoning their wives and getting remarried in Russia

Over 1 million people from Tajikistan have moved to Russia in search of a better life, but what about the ones they leave behind.

Reuters
Jul 03, 2017 · 07:00 pm
Read in App
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
We welcome your comments at letters@scroll.in.
  • Abandoned Women
  • Tajikistan
  • Russia
  • Immigration

Related

How an agricultural shift helped a Nepal village keep migrating wild elephants at bay

How an agricultural shift helped a Nepal village keep migrating wild elephants at bay

Trending

  1. Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard

    Mumbai’s move to privatise five government hospitals will hit slum dwellers hard
  2. How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s

    How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s
  3. Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not

    Why ‘Phule’ is facing censorship – though previous biopics of the reformer did not
  4. April global nonfiction: Six new books about the many ways human history has changed over the years

    April global nonfiction: Six new books about the many ways human history has changed over the years
  5. Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally

    Pegasus spyware targeted 100 WhatsApp users in India, second-highest globally
Ad