Sehar Dabur is the Chief of Staff at FactorDaily where she spearheads community projects, curates essential processes, ensures smooth operation, and holds the fort together for the organisation to achieve its goals. A CA-Inter by qualification, Sehar has worked at organisations like Luthra & Luthra Chartered Accountants, Punj Lloyd Limited and Max Life Insurance in the past. She also founded Maharaas Choreography Craft and is a founding member of Mogly's Gurukul—a Spiritual Activity Centre for children in Delhi/NCR.
At his zenith, Amit Bhardwaj amassed wealth equivalent to the GDP of a small nation duping thousands of investors lured in by the promise of quick riches mining cryptocurrencies. Today, he is treated like a common criminal – being made to sit on the floor and given minimum comforts – under arrest by the Pune […]
In December 22, just before the long Christmas weekend last year, a 25-year-old man from Wandoor, one of several small towns strewn across Malappuram in north Kerala, was arrested by the state police. Kodakkadan Sharaf Ali was in possession of child pornography, a crime that could lead to five years of imprisonment. People have been […]
“Hands off the computer!” The words, spoken in chaste Bundeli, still ring in Meera’s ears. Computers were things Meera had first heard about in 2005 while she was still in college, graduating in social sciences. They helped you work faster, she knew that. You could write, no, type, endless reams of text on them. You […]
“Hello, Azim seth… namaskar seth-ji,” says 80-year old Jijabrao Gulabrao Deshmukh looking into the camera. “Azim seth-ji baat kar rahen hain?” “Hello, hello?” “Premji is not on the line, we’re only recording your message, we are doing an interview for a story,” I tell him, feeling a little bad for him. His face falls, his […]
Mein cyber hoon (I am a cyber),” says Mandal, who looks a teenager but insists he’s 21 years old. In these parts – Karmatand and elsewhere in the villages of Jamtara, Madhupur, and Dumka of eastern Jharkhand – the frequently-used “cyber” in Hindi and Bengali refers to cybercrime and those dabbling in cybercrime, both petty and […]
A young girl, not more than 12 years old is dressed in a bright pink lehenga and a royal blue velvet blouse. She is standing in the middle of a field and swaying her body, shaking her hips, her chest heaving as she dances to a popular Hariyanvi number that goes Meri jalti jawani maange paani paani. It’s a 15-second clip on […]
This story starts with Udhay Shankar N, who walked into my office on Church Street one day in 2012 and said we were going out to lunch. “We are?” I asked. “Yes.” he said. “You are going to join Silk.” I wasn’t unfamiliar with Silk-List at that point. In fact, I was already a member […]
Story highlights: Anand Prakash just turned 24, and he is already way richer than most people in his cohort. One of India’s highest-paid bug bounty hunters and a gig economy hero, Prakash’s life revolves around getting payouts from tech companies for responsibly disclosing exploits and vulnerabilities on their websites and/or software products. A self-professed former […]
If you have not keenly followed the history of the Indian tech industry, you will not have heard of Atul Chitnis. Go ahead, Google him up. He is described as “an Indian consulting technologist” on Wikipedia. That’s like saying Steve Jobs worked at the intersection of technology and humans. Or, Richard Stallman is a free software evangelist. Or, Satish […]
Abid to save a 35-year-old fertiliser plant has turned a small port town 590km south of Chennai into the testbed for a breakthrough carbon dioxide (CO2) separation technology. Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (TFL) in Thoothukudi was looking at closure after its CO2 (a raw material for the plant) supply was cut off. Carbon Clean […]
In 2015, Pratham Books, a not-for-profit publisher of children’s literature, created an online platform called Storyweaver. The publishing house threw open its entire repository of stories and images, and a set of tools using which students, parents, teachers and educators can read, download, translate and repurpose books. This being an open-source project, they can do all this […]
It is well past midnight and Parveen Singhal roars on a black Royal Enfield 500cc Thunderbird through the streets of Indore. His friends and relatives try to keep pace with him on their motorbikes and a car but it is Singhal, 21, who pulls first into their destination: Sarafa, a food street by night that is […]
