currentnews
True story: A victim’s memoir of how a scammer faked cancer and death to deceive thousands
Sanch is good-looking. You can be as self-aware as you want but let’s not pretend: peo…
currentnews
Why the Sabarimala verdict allowing women into the temple differs from the hijab ‘ban’
Religious scriptures and associated traditions have rarely been kind to women. If scri…
currentnews
From the memoir: Mathematician and writer Manil Suri on his childhood in a crumbling Bombay flat
From as far back as I can remember, my mother felt the periodic need to apologise to m…
currentnews
World Bee Day: How India’s herders sustain pollinators, biodiversity and fragile commons
At dawn in Gujarat’s Banni grasslands, the earth smells faintly of salt and wet dung. …
currentnews
How Big Tech is harnessing the data of Indian factory workers to train robots
In April, a video of Indian factory workers went viral. It showed the workers sewing g…
currentnews
Iodine deficiency is slowly rising again due to dietary preferences, salt intake concerns
Iodine deficiency is often seen as a problem of the past, but this isn’t entirely true…
currentnews
‘A butterfly will still be beautiful’: Ruskin Bond, 92 today, writes about his wartime childhood
It had been a lonely winter for a 12-year-old boy. I hadn’t really gotten over my fath…
