Agents of ishq tell stories about love, sex, and desire in their own voices The young man speaks with a slight lisp. His voice is gentle, dripping with laughter. “Mera naam AK hai, main ikkis saal ka hoon, aur yeh mere isi rainy season ki kahani hai… Chhoti si, happy kahani,” he says. I am […]

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 […]

Zakhil Suresh, an aspiring chartered accountant in Kodungallur, a small port town on the Malabar coast in Kerala, has a nose for investment opportunities. Suresh, 23, was an early entrant into the swirling world of Bitcoins, a so-called cryptocurrency that is taking the world by storm — it has appreciated about 33 million times since […]

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 […]

Nearly a quarter of India’s three million tonnes of e-waste generated every year is dumped in Seelampur. If you live in north India, chances are high that the smartphone you bought last year and trashed because something better came along, went to die here.

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 […]