Our ‘un-Indian’ Constitution

The Indian constitutional project can be described in many ways. For its most prominent historian, Granville Austin, the project was about “social revolution”.

Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared?

I WAS one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department. For more than a dozen years, I worked on a busy rig in a tough neighborhood where rundown houses caught fire easily and gangs fought with machetes and .22s.

An Arrogant Way of Killing

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Martin Luther King Jr.: A Candid Conversation With the Nobel Prize-Winning Civil Rights Leader

On Monday, America celebrates the life and work of the pioneering Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. In 1964, Playboy published an interview with King by Alex Haley, who would go on to write Roots.

The Indian Spy Who Fell for Tibet

If it hadn’t been for a bout of malaria, Sarat Chandra Das might never have become a spy. As a civil engineer, he might have worked in Calcutta forever. But in 1874, upon recovering from his illness, he was offered a position as headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School in Darjeeling.

The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online

By | March 16, 2016 Photograph by Christaan Felber From I saw the photo first, me in a bloody wash of red with “RACIST” pulsing over my face.

Help to Map Bangalore Biodiversity

I like walking when I am in a new place. When I am in a human habitat I map postboxes or do some OSM. If I trekking then I try to take pictures of flora and fauna so I can add to Biodiversity map on iNaturalist.org along with capturing the trail for sharing.

The Forgotten History of Female Mapmakers

In the 1970s, early in her career as map librarian at the New York Public Library, Alice Hudson started researching women mapmakers throughout history. With few other women in her chosen field, she wondered how many had come before her. “I thought I might find 10,” she tells CityLab.

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