The NCST’s Report on Gangrapes and Assaults in Bastar Says There is a Breakdown of Discipline Among Security Forces

In a 15-page fact-finding report, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has stated that there is a breakdown of discipline among security forces deployed on anti-Maoist operations in south Chhattisgarh.

How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell

An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it out.

Homegrown

Most city dwellers are born into the linear rat race that comes with living in an urban space, constantly hustling and bustling through crowded railway platforms and car-jammed roads in polluted.

Here’s how Amitabh Bachchan survived yet another Income Tax investigation

dna’s investigative team takes you through the Bollywood star’s brush with the Income Tax Department right from 2009 and how his loans were paid off using offshore entities. Also, where does Sahara’s Subrata Roy come in?

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.