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In just ten months, two election commissioners objected 14 times to decisions related to SIRs. At Scroll, we have covered extensively, how SIR has changed election outcomes, people's lives and has far wider impact than just names being deleted from voters' rolls. A thread:
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Replug | While Hindu Right frequently cites Goa as a uniform legal system, the irony remains stark. scroll.in/article/1090422/th… The “uniform” code in Goa still technically allows a Hindu man to contract a second marriage if his first wife fails to deliver a child by age 25, or a male heir by age 30. ✍️Kaustubh Naik

The Bible and the Brahmin: The 18th-century defence of Hindu bigamy in Portuguese Goa

Historical documents tell a story of mutual collaboration between the colonial state and the Hindu elite to preserve patriarchal customs.

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Replug | I stepped into the balcony of my friend’s home when parrots flew by shrieking. I had not known parrots lived like this in Pune. At least, they did not in the Pune I lived in. scroll.in/article/1090812/in… Shailaja Paik ✍️

In Pune’s skies, parrots are a sign of how caste shapes cities

The historical allocation of land and who inherits it dictates why some neighbourhoods have birds, tree-lined avenues and far better civic amenities.

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Replug | The dish followed a trajectory from the Iranian plateau to South Asia through Sufi saints and physicians. The name sūhan refers to a whetstone or file, evoking the halwa’s gritty, fine-grained texture and its characteristic "raspy crunch." scroll.in/article/1089724/a-… Neha Vermani traces history of sohan halwa.

A bittersweet archive: The history of sohan halwa

The brittle sweetmeat reflects early modern exchange networks, Mughal kitchens and Partition.

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“It’s not the hardest punch that kills you, Torres tells us, it’s the one you didn’t see coming.” — ‘Soliloquies’ by Adil Jussawalla. scroll.in/article/1090397/wi… Jerry Pinto lists his favourite quotes.

Wisdom from books: Jerry Pinto picks his favourite literary quotes from a year of reading

‘In the world, I thought, there are so many voices and so many echoes.’

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Replug | India, more or less, understood that it could not count on open Brazilian support. As expected, Brazil abstained from criticising Pakistan when the East Bengal crisis was discussed at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in Geneva. scroll.in/magazine/1078331/b… ✍️Ajay Kamalakaran

Before the 1971 war, India and Pakistan were skirmishing on another front: Brazil

The South Asian neighbours tried hard to enlist the support of the local media and the authorities, while Brasilia stayed neutral.

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Replug | For India’s racialised and caste-shaped startup ecosystem, the bottom of the pyramid, is a “sub-Saharan” population outside the formal digital economy. This closes the possibility of redesigning the techno-social order, ✍️Sandeep Mertia. scroll.in/article/1090811/st…

Startup India at 10: With little to show, how failure was defined as success

Rather than reimagine, India’s borrowed vision of innovation failed to break the hierarchy where entrepreneurial risk-taking is limited to a tiny elite class.

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Replug | "Building community-level programmes, with culturally specific and tailored interventions which involve community or peer leaders as a psychological force aid, can be helpful,” said a psychologist. scroll.in/article/1046402/in… Via IndiaSpend

In an unequal society like India, community-led interventions can make therapy more accessible

With India’s lack of mental health care professionals, community programmes might be a better way to reach more people.

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The 2024 translation is remarkable for it produces the sounds, cadences, and feeling of Kuvempu’s 1967 novel even when read in English. scroll.in/article/1090200/br… ✍️Sundar Sarukkai

‘Bride in the Hills’: How Vanamala Viswanatha’s new translation thinks beyond linguistic gaps

The 2024 translation is remarkable for it produces the sounds, cadences, and feeling of Kuvempu’s 1967 novel even when read in English.

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Replug | There are precious few writers today whom one would read for the sheer grace of their sentences. What is the value of a story if it adds nothing to one’s experience of the world of language? scroll.in/article/1090684/th… Prof. Apoorvanand writes

The roots of India’s disinterest in reading

A public that prefers to passively consume videos and reels is the natural outcome of an education system which devalues original thought and expression.

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‘Cultural memory survives through careful storage, accurate documentation,’ said Rishabh Jain, whose family has been preserving rare books for nearly 60 years. Read the full interview here: scroll.in/article/1090432/de…

‘Decisions are driven more by significance than hype’: How India collects rare, antiquarian books

‘Cultural memory survives through careful storage, accurate documentation,’ said Rishabh Jain, whose family has been preserving rare books for nearly 60 years.

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“Every year a new committee is formed, and every year new promises are made,” he said, looking at the black water. “But the river only gets darker. We grew up with this river. Now we are forced to live with poison.” scroll.in/article/1090238/fr… Suresh Bidari writes Via MongabayIndia

From Nepal’s industrial belt, ‘holy’ Sirsiya river now carries sewage to Bihar in India

Indian officials acknowledge that unless waste flowing from Nepal is stopped, the river will never be clean.

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“I became aware that they were using abusive language, shouting that they would strip me,” Laxmi Mondal told Scroll. “My blouse was torn and my saree had been removed by three men.” scroll.in/article/1096592/in… She said the three families have been receiving verbal threats for the last one year and being told to abandon their faith, @ZamanRokibuz_ reports.
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“I became aware that they were using abusive language, shouting that they would strip me,” Laxmi Mondal told Scroll. “My blouse was torn and my saree had been removed by three men.” scroll.in/article/1096592/in… She said the three families have been receiving verbal threats for the last one year and being told to abandon their faith, @ZamanRokibuz_ reports.
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The Paralympic Committee of India said that its Chef de Mission has recommended a lifetime ban against the 40-year-old athlete. Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh was also arrested by Japanese police in connection with the incident. Read more: scroll.in/latest/1096593/ind…
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India is among the world’s largest markets for generative #AI platforms. Several celebrities have sued YouTube and Google for hosting #deepfake videos. But in small towns, deepfakes are helping meet vital cultural needs. scroll.in/article/1091074/in… Hanan Zaffar & Jyoti Thakur writes

In India, AI deepfakes of the deceased are a lively business

Self-taught small creators are using AI tools to recreate the dead for special events.

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The focus on vegetable biodiversity also comes at a time when people are eating fewer vegetables overall. Increasing biodiversity can aid in increasing vegetable consumption and addressing these nutritional gaps. scroll.in/article/1096351/di… ✍️Sharmila Vaidyanathan Via @MongabayIndia
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The scientist used light-sensitive plates to trace cosmic particles, contributing to pioneering research in particle physics. scroll.in/magazine/1096388/h… Kamayani Sharma writes

How photography helped physicist Bibha Chowdhuri see the invisible in the 1930s

The scientist used light-sensitive plates to trace cosmic particles, contributing to pioneering research in particle physics.

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Three years ago, Amit Shah said new criminal laws would decolonise India. Yet, they retain provisions used to detain protesters. This week in #ChronologySamajhiye, @AnantGuptaAG asks what this says about the government’s promise to move beyond its colonial past.
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The government attributed higher prices to lower-than-expected production, increased demand, weather-related crop damage, tightening global supplies, and speculation and hoarding. scroll.in/article/1096243/on… Vijay Jadhav ✍️ Via ISignal

Onions, sugar, rice: Why India’s food staples have gotten costly

Poor rainfall, speculation on sugarcane harvesting were among the main reasons.

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For those who chose to stay without an indenture, life offered new possibilities. Indian workers used their savings to open shops, start small businesses, become tenant farmers or work as free labourers. scroll.in/magazine/1096255/h… But freedom from indenture did not mean equality, Ajay Kamalakaran writes

How the French convinced Indian workers to stay on in the Caribbean despite systemic abuse

After slavery was abolished, Indian workers became vital to Guadeloupe’s sugar economy. When their contracts ended, colonisers tried to make them stay.

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