Indulekha Aravind

Jan 5, 2025 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Indulekha Aravind

Increasing number of Indians are becoming victims of ‘digital arrest’, a cyber-enabled scam. A recent analysis by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (SE Asia and the Pacific) shows that these types of cyber-enabled fraud are now run as a professionalised industry, mostly from SE Asia.

Sep 1, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Indulekha Aravind

Among the many disturbing revelations cascading out of the recent breach in Malayalam cinema's male dominance caused by the Justice K Hema Committee report, a poignant section stands out. Narrating her experience, a junior artist describes incidents of male actors harassing her. Apart from the acting parts, she lost out when she rejected sexual propositioning. She also mentions how she worked on a script for the big screen, pouring her heart into it every night after a long day's work.

Aug 24, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Indulekha Aravind

Two years ago, when Rashmi R was selected from her college to work in a new electronics manufacturing company in Kolar, Karnataka, she became one of the first women in her family and neighbourhood to take up a job outside home. The task of assembling high-end phones involved working eighthour shifts that could stretch late into the night or start very early in the morning. But her parents were on board, says the 21-yearold, because the company cab would pick up and drop her home.

Aug 24, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Indulekha Aravind

It almost became one of those dreams that died in the pandemic. After science historian Jahnavi Phalkey moved to Bengaluru in 2018 to set up Science Gallery Bengaluru , she, along with professor Mukund Thattai of National Centre for Biological Sciences and Rajesh Gopakumar, director of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, hit upon organising a mega science festival in the city, similar to those in New York and Europe.

Aug 3, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Indulekha Aravind

The consecutive landslides in the early hours of July 30 in Wayanad will go down in Kerala ’s history as one of the worst natural disasters the state has faced. It’s a calamity that has claimed over 200 lives, as per official data on Saturday morning, with the final figure expected to be much higher, razed homes and traumatised a society that still carries the scars of past disasters.