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4 days ago | scroll.in | Rayan Naqash

On Saturday morning, Rajinder Kumar, his wife and two sons were cleaning debris in their small house in Jammu city’s Rehari Colony. The tensions between India and Pakistan that had begun to rise since the commencement of Operation Sindoor on Wednesday had weighed heavy on Kumar’s mind but he never expected the conflict to come to his own doorstep. Kumar’s slumber was disrupted by a loud bang inside his house at around 5.35, waking up his family.

4 days ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

India’s abstention at an International Monetary Fund executive board meeting in which the multilateral body approved further assistance amounting to $2.4 billion to Pakistan on Friday sparked a political debate in India amid escalating hostilities between New Delhi and Islamabad.

5 days ago | scroll.in | Nandini Ramnath

Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage was a teenager in 1978 when he first encountered one of the most beguiling chronicles of adolescence. Sumitra Peries’s film Gehenu Lamai, about a young girl’s formative experiences, resembled an Impressionist painting in its intricacy and beauty, said Vithanage. “Sumitra had a distinctive vision and used the cinematic language in a poetic manner,” observed Vithanage, who is among his country’s most prominent filmmakers.

5 days ago | scroll.in | Sayari Debnath

Banu Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in Karnataka in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. In her long literary career, Mushtaq has published six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection.

5 days ago | scroll.in | Tabassum Barnagarwala |Vaishnavi Rathore

The Indian Army announced on Friday morning that it had “effectively repulsed” numerous attacks from Pakistan that used “drones and other munitions” along the country’s western border late into the previous night. The attacks came after India struck nine sites in Pakistan, in what it described as a “focused, measured and non-escalatory” response to the killings by terrorists of 26 civilians in Pahalgam on April 22.