As Vaishali Thakker, a 23-year old open source programmer looked over the hall filled with around 200 people, she didn’t know how to react to what she had just heard. Thakker was one of the five women ...

Dhiraj Rajaram’s Battle for Mu Sigma – A gripping story of personal struggles, mental resilience, and a daring buyback of nearly a billion dollars. As I sat across from Dhiraj, I couldn’t help but ...

Rohini Lakshané is a technologist, interdisciplinary researcher and Wikimedian. She is a Fellow at Factor Daily (2023-24). An engineer by training, Rohini has worked on several research and advocacy ...

Saba Khan was five years old when she first began borrowing comic books from a neighborhood kirana shop in Bagh Dilkusha, on the outskirts of Bhopal. She would thumb through Chacha Chaudhary and ...

Through the journey of the dedicated contributors in the OpenStreetMap community in India, this story explores the rise of OpenStreetMap community, highlighting its role in disaster relief and urban ...

Priti Mahesh is currently the Chief Programme Coordinator at Toxics Link. She has been campaigning on the issues of waste and chemicals for more than a decade, with special focus on e-waste, plastic ...

There are different ways to make gadgets deliberately obsolete; through its quality, its functionality, and/or its appearance. One of the common methods used by the electronics industry ‘designing for ...

Inspired by Aamir Khan's ripped-to-shreds physique in Dangal, Ramarko Sengupta signed up for a DNA analysis by Gene Box. Here's what he found. Ever since I learnt that Aamir Khan achieved his ...

The SC hearings on right to privacy will continue today (August 2) and it is quite likely to be the final day of arguments in court. At one point, while following the tweets on Day 5 (August 1) of the ...

Indian Youtubers have found a global audience devouring videos of Indian barbers performing vigorous massages. These massages shot at rustic roadside salons relaxes stressed consumers and even help ...

OPERATION P-HUNT 20.1 As dawn broke over the ancient port city of Kollam on June 27, the police team looked up at the passing clouds anxiously. “Not today, please,” was the common thought. It had ...

What role do newsrooms play in a world dealing with information overload? A multifold one where it can curate the most relevant information to a hyperlocal audience, to present data points and ...