Rapper Kashan Ali calls himself a ‘middle-class lover boy’. His Instagram reels score thousands of views, featuring music on broken hearts, unrequited love, cricket, and most recently, e-challans. Over a...
“Is there a good place to scatter my mother’s ashes?” This question came from a traveller visiting from the UK. He had a pensive gaze. His mother, he said, had...
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By night, Bangalore’s first-world dreams flicker out, and in their place rises the familiar roar of the third world – endless construction, half-finished roads, dust in the headlights, a city...
The crumbling foundations of the Greek railway system Track ballast, the special-purpose gravel placed beneath railroad tracks, is like the foundations of a building. If it’s unsound, then the entire...
A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Orfeo Laudi shakes his head. “The overwhelming majority...
From the Rubik’s Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games By now, there’s a library’s...
A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep O n a warm morning in mid-March, a group of researchers from Ferrara University examine their catch...
How Romania’s medical industry profits from women’s bodies through procedures lacking scientific evidence – some funded by public healthcare, others costing thousands of euros in private clinics Warning: This article...