First Person
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Finding Maya: In the story of a friend’s death, a love story about family
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Winning against poverty, losing against time: An unlikely academic’s (un)finished agenda
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‘You get one life, you enjoy it responsibly, then you die’: A cancer patient’s farewell essay
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An Indian Army officer remembers how observing roza in Kashmir changed his life
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The Indian diaspora is equally guilty of holding on to old stereotypes about the homeland
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The personal is political: How events on two continents drove a wedge between my father and me
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How a 74-year-old YouTuber created instrumental versions of film songs using the Pratham tarang
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On my freedom fighter father’s birth centenary, what would he have made of the hate in India today?
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A new Indian venture capitalist lifts the curtain on his industry
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First person: What my mother taught me about crows – and life
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‘They all became animals’: My grandfather remembers the trauma and violence of India’s Partition
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First person: When Boris Johnson asked me to spice up a profile of Mayawati
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What growing up with two abusive men taught me about the #MeToo movement in India
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In Indian elections, wheelchair users like me can be denied our dignity – and vote
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Eating rotten fruit and shivering in rage: How a Kerala workshop taught me to accept life as it is
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‘They’re angry with me for a crime someone else has committed’: The grief of a Kashmiri in Hyderabad
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Numb and weak, a tailor in Rajasthan stops his TB treatment despite the risks
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Kashmir’s exiled Pandits don’t know what to go back to – even if they do eventually return
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Patient diary: Fighting twin battles against TB and depression is physically, emotionally consuming
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Nandita Das: ‘Kuldip Nayar prevented an idealist like me from falling into the trap of cynicism’
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How a WhatsApp group helped an Indian woman embrace her disability
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India needs to understand that living with a disability makes me neither ‘helpless’ nor ‘heroic’
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Backpacking through India with foreigners, I learned some hard truths about myself and my country
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As the ‘Himalayan Journal’ turns 90, its editor explains the highs and lows of the job
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‘My heart stopped’: An Indian shark anthropologist writes about his encounter with a Great White
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What an Indian woman’s experiment with being phoneless taught her about life and relationships
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In an unempathetic India, I suffer the double trauma of living with PTSD as a young queer woman
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To avoid a C-section at the end of my pregnancy, I went from hospital to hospital
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For a nation obsessed with white skin, India still sees vitiligo as impure and unattractive
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In my depression, the tweezers have become my worst enemy
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In my depression, the tweezers have become my worst enemy
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Social apartheid: I was barred from entering a Kolkata mall because I was wearing a dhoti
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There was nothing ‘normal’ about my normal delivery
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Eight mistakes I made as the mother of a child with autism
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An Indian woman's notes on dating in Beijing: It's a confusing, dreadful adventure
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What is a bullet journal? And why does everyone think it’s better than any productivity app?
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Do you hide your self-help books behind rows of great literature? Here’s why you need to stop
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My secret life as a fake reviewer of women’s lingerie
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The silence of India's wildlife scientists, including myself, rings louder than gunshots
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'Let me know if you need a lawyer': Behind the scenes of a raid on a news website in the Maldives
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'Things got heated but not threatening': An eyewitness account of Amnesty's contentious Kashmir meet
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‘You must be sad that your brother was hanged’: A Kashmiri journalist on the bias of our press corps
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Lessons from the field: How I learnt to stay safe in Afghanistan
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In photos: A week in the line of Uttarakhand's forest fires
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Uttarakhand diary: The mountains are on fire
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Once there was Kashmir (before the night of January 19, 1990)
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A life of learning: Wendy Doniger on becoming the woman who pretended to be who she was
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I was there: A participant in the 'anti-national' protest of February 9 on what happened next
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First person: Do some disabled people choose to settle for a substandard life?
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First person: We can tackle enemies on Siachen, but there's not much we can do about nature
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The Ram Jethmalani interview: Jaitley ‘controls the media’ and Modi ‘made a fool of me’
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I am a Bengali – and here’s why I don’t like Durga Puja
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'Law won't protect sinners like you': Scroll.in reporter covering beef protest held for seven hours
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A pilgrimage to Venice: The magic and mysteries of the historical city and the best of world cinema
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Hear it from a Muslim yoga instructor: 'I cannot see what the fuss is about at all'
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Video: Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew on why even he would not be able to change India