Mumbai
Eau de City: What Do India’s Metropolises Smell Like?
Artists and researchers sniffed, smelt, and inhaled their way through India’s biggest cities. They share their most vivid smell memories with us.
Drug Smugglers Have Started Coating Liquorice in Heroin
Police discovered one of their biggest drug hauls hidden in a bag of liquorice root, as heroin seizures soar in India.
‘Modern Love: Mumbai’ Takes Us Inside the Freedom of a Muslim Woman
The Indian spinoff of the popular Amazon Prime series has a powerful story around the “triple divorce.”
We Asked This Bovine Lover Who Runs a Cow-Themed Newspaper: Why?
“Cows will always be a hot topic in India.”
Inside the World’s Largest Postal Network That Kept India Running Amid Lockdown
The postal service delivered medicine, fruits, protective gear and ventilators. It even ferried money to locked-down residents.
Mumbai’s Creative Culture is Eroding as Artists and Actors Go Back to Their Hometowns
As the pandemic wrecks the metropolis with a crushing cost of living, we speak with those who had once migrated to the ‘City of Dreams’ to find fame and fulfilment.
What Is up With India's Exorbitantly High Electricity Bills?
All around the country, people have been receiving outrageous power bills this month—some even ten times the usual amount.
These Chefs Moved Into Their Workplace To Feed the City and Its Migrants
“I’m also a migrant in this city. Those people out there are just like us. If I’ve fed some of them, I’ve done my bit.”
'Drugs Are a Vehicle to Look at Grief': Jeet Thayil on His New Book
We spoke to India's most famous drug novelist about "Low," his third novel.
It’s Official: Bengaluru Has the World’s Worst Traffic
The Philippines' capital Manila is a close second
Mumbai Police Are Now Trying to Arrest a Woman for Carrying a ‘Free Kashmir’ Sign
Not only are authorities allegedly shutting down the #OccupyGateway protests by detaining dissenters, but they’re also seeking out a woman for having “separatist views”.