SC tells journalist Tarun Tejpal to surrender within two weeks in 2013 rape case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed rape convict journalist Tarun Tejpal to surrender to the authorities within two weeks, Live Law reported.
Manipur: CRPF member shot, two homes burned in clashes between Kukis and Nagas
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25 Aug 2026
A Central Reserve Police Force sub-inspector was shot and at least two homes were torched in Manipur after clashes broke out between two groups on Monday, The Hindu reported.
CJP announces Delhi march on September 5, says Centre must fulfil promises made to youth protesters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24 Aug 2026
The Cockroach Janta Party on Monday called for a peaceful march from India Gate to the Delhi Police headquarters on September 5, saying the Union government had failed to “honour its July 25...
Rush Hour: 19% Karnataka voters removed from draft list, Iyer-Mitra summoned in privacy suit & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24 Aug 2026
More than one crore names were removed from the draft voter list of Karnataka published as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
‘Planned failure’: Is the Modi government sabotaging its own caste census?
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·24 Aug 2026
In April 2025, the Modi government made a dramatic U-turn and announced that it would count caste in India’s next census.
Vitamin C can’t cure colds – how a Nobel Prize winner’s claims were disproved
Scroll.inby Evangeline Mantzioris, The Conversation·23 Aug 2026
From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through the cold and flu season.
SIR: Ex-diplomat says he had trouble ‘proving citizenship’ despite representing India in 3 countries
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23 Aug 2026
Former Indian diplomat Navdeep Suri has raised concerns about the verification process under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
‘Chakmak’: A poetry collection about tribal life is essential for the re-education of the urban mind
Scroll.inby Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre·23 Aug 2026
Some time ago, I spent a week staying among and interacting with the staff and the students at three remote tribal schools of Dahanu Taluka in Maharashtra’s Palghar District.
‘Blue Flag’ tag push for India’s beaches is violating coastal rules, evicting local communities
Scroll.inby Shreya Raman, ISignal·23 Aug 2026
On the evening of February 19, 58-year-old Anbukarasi sat alone in the usually bustling marketplace at the coconut grove in Puducherry’s Eden beach.
‘London Falling’: A captivating investigation into a 19-year-old’s double life and death in London
Scroll.inby Sangeeta Chakravorty·23 Aug 2026
In September, 2015, Patrick Radden Keefe wrote about Ken Dornstein, whose older brother David had perished in Pan Am Flight 103 which had exploded mid-air, six miles above the earth.
Sunday book pick: The specific curse of dating men in ‘Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad’
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·23 Aug 2026
Nigeria’s capital city, Lagos, resembles a proper madhouse in Damilare Kuku’s 2021 debut book, the short story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad.
Jharkhand protests: FIR against hundreds for clashes with police
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23 Aug 2026
Three first information reports were filed against 14 identified and more than 200 unidentified persons on Saturday in connection with clashes between the police and student protesters a day...
The government’s fumbling effort to regain youth attention online
Scroll.inby Nachiket Deuskar·23 Aug 2026
At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Union ministers were handed report cards. They were not being assessed for their performance as ministers but on how active and effective they have been on social...
‘Writing to dazzle can be a fatal mistake of the preoccupation with writerly craft’: Saikat Majumdar
Scroll.inby Diya Sengupta·23 Aug 2026
Having read several of Saikat Majumdar’s novels and a couple of his non-fiction books, I consider him one of those rare contemporary writers who move seamlessly across fiction, nonfiction, and...
‘India’s Forests, Real and Imagined’: Forests as literary-political figures across three millennia
Scroll.inby Ankush Pal·23 Aug 2026
India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation by Alan Johnson is an ambitious work of literary ecocriticism that attempts to trace the figure of the forest across approximately...
Ramachandra Guha: Historian Sumit Sarkar took his scholarship beyond the confines of the academy
Scroll.inby Ramachandra Guha·23 Aug 2026
In a late essay reflecting on his intellectual journey over the decades, Sumit Sarkar remarked: “So far, we Indian historians have written the histories that we wanted to write, following no agenda...
Can intense interiority in a book leave the reader thoroughly alienated from the narrator’s life?
Scroll.inby Prerna Vij·22 Aug 2026
This summer I picked up my friend’s half-read copy of Eula Biss’ Having and Being Had and read a hundred pages curled up on his sofa.
Supreme Court orders refund of fine paid by Art of Living for Yamuna floodplains damage
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Saturday set aside a 2017 National Green Tribunal order that held the Art of Living foundation responsible for damaging the Yamuna floodplains during its three-day event in...
Army tribunal upholds censure for brigadier over 2023 Poonch civilian deaths
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22 Aug 2026
The Armed Forces Tribunal on Thursday upheld an administrative censure for a brigadier who was commanding a sector of the Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district in December 2023...
Thinking is a sport, not a chore: Why children’s literature creators will win the war against AI
Scroll.inby Vibha Batra·22 Aug 2026
Disclaimer: The following text is entirely human-authored. No “outside” help was sought to outline the piece. Editing was not outsourced to a “foreign hand”.
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