How Japan’s victory in the 1907 war against Russia strengthened India’s resolve for freedom
Scroll.inby Mithi Mukherjee·31 Aug 2026
In 1907, two years after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, the Indian anticolonial leader Aurobindo Ghose drew attention to the geopolitical connections between India and Asia that rendered...
Kolkata Police summons TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O’Brien over party signboard removal scuffle
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·30 Aug 2026
The Kolkata Police has summoned Trinamool Congress leaders Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien in connection with a case involving allegations that they assaulted police personnel and obstructed...
Bengal: FIR filed against Mamata Banerjee for ‘violating’ HC order during TMC student wing event
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·30 Aug 2026
The Kolkata Police has registered a first information report against West Bengal’s former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the Calcutta High Court order regarding the...
At New York event, Bhagwat preaches ‘oneness in diversity’ amid a storm of protests
Scroll.inby Oishika Neogi·30 Aug 2026
On the morning of August 29, more than 5,000 people of Indian-origin trickled into New York’s Madison Square Garden to see one man take the stage: Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya...
A new sky: A pilgrimage in memory of my father – and his belief in the transformative power of tea
Scroll.inby Sanjay Barbora·30 Aug 2026
An old black cat slept snugly in its chair in the Yunnan-themed, street-facing restaurant on Mae Salong’s main road.
Bhima Koregaon case: Mumbai court rejects NIA plea to cancel bail for four activists
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·30 Aug 2026
A Mumbai court has rejected the National Investigation Agency’s application to cancel the bail granted to four activists in the Bhima Koregaon case, reported Bar and Bench on Sunday.
Nepal floods: Toll climbs to 691, nearly 3,000 missing as rescue efforts enter fifth day
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·30 Aug 2026
The toll in the flash flood and mudslide in Nepal and China has risen to 691, AFP reported on Sunday. Nearly 3,000 persons were missing.
Nepal: Warming may have induced glacial floods, but the damage downstream is manmade
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Rathore·30 Aug 2026
On Wednesday morning, I woke up to a message from a disaster authority about tremors that were felt in Shimla and Chamba at around 5 am.
‘Timshel’ and goodness: What John Steinbeck (and ‘East of Eden’) can teach America in its 250th year
Scroll.inby Navanita Varadpande·29 Aug 2026
The United States of America turned 250 this year amidst political upheaval, economic anxiety, and declining trust in institutions.
‘The Struggle’: This impactful novel in translation presents a lived experience of agrarian unrest
Scroll.inby Pranvi Khare·29 Aug 2026
There’s an intensity to Bangladeshi writer Showkat Ali’s novel The Struggle (translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy and Mohiuddin Jahangir) that stayed with me well after I had finished it.
Apologise within 24 hours: Bengal CM to ‘Anandabazar Patrika’ for ‘saffron hooliganism’ headline
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29 Aug 2026
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday asked newspaper Anandabazar Patrika to apologise for using the phrase “saffron hooliganism” in its headline to describe the August 20 clash...
‘My highest goal as an author is to make something seem incredibly, desperately real’: Meg Mason
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·29 Aug 2026
Meg Mason is the author of the novels You Be Mother, Sorrow and Bliss, and, most recently, Sophie, Standing There, along with a motherhood memoir, Say It Again in a Nice Voice.
Kuchipudi has lost its theatrical soul. An 85-year-old guru is trying to bring it back
Scroll.inby Malini Nair·29 Aug 2026
Master Rattiah reserves his sharpest rebuke for dance that chooses spectacle over rigour. “Decoration,” he said, with scathing contempt. At 85, he has earned the right to be exacting.
The contradiction in diplomat KM Panikkar’s vision of a maritime strategy for India
Scroll.inby Mujeeb Kanth·29 Aug 2026
Over a decade has passed since India sought to reorient its grand strategic discourse from continental to maritime Asia and anchored its vision of international order in the Indian Ocean Region.
Updates: Toll in Nepal-China flash flood rises to 586, over 80 Indian tourists rescued
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29 Aug 2026
The toll due to the flash flood and mudslide in Nepal rose to 586 on Friday, while the country’s Prime Minister Balen Shah said that over 4,400 persons had been rescued, The Hindu reported.
‘Once Elephants Lived Here’: Geetanjali Shree’s stories play with ideas and readers’ expectations
Scroll.inby Saloni Sharma·29 Aug 2026
There is an intriguing instability in the world of Once Elephants Lived Here. The stories start out in places that seem familiar, with characters you have run into variations of already, until...
‘Homo and Juliet’: These real-life love stories do the task of making queer domesticity visible
Scroll.inby Arundhati Ghosh·29 Aug 2026
Queer love has a way of dismantling inherited ways of life with inhabited feelings of desire that compel every person – queer or not yet – to introspect their own trysts with romance, with an...
Prayer camps drive urban growth along Nigeria’s ‘spiritual highway’
Scroll.inby Marloes Janson, The Conversation·28 Aug 2026
The highway between Lagos and Ibadan was built in 1978 at the height of Nigeria’s oil boom. Lagos is the country’s largest city, with an estimated population of over 20 million, and Ibadan the...
Fiction: A chance meeting with an underworld don in 1970s Bombay changes Sikandar’s life
Scroll.inby Shailendra Singh·28 Aug 2026
It was in the early nineties that India saw the emergence of compact disc (CD) systems, which revolutionised the audio business worldwide. Music was recorded onto the discs using lasers.
Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O’Brien booked for scuffle over removal of a party signboard
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·28 Aug 2026
Trinamool Congress leaders Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien have been booked for allegedly assaulting police personnel and obstructing them from discharging their duties when they went to remove...
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