Papers

• The Jungle Prince of Delhi

  For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
  By Ellen Barry

• A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

  Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
  By Ian Parker

• The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare

  Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career — and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution.
  By Nathaniel Rich

• Living with the phone

  Messages, pictures and videos assume different dimensions when they do multiple rounds when shared.
  by S RADHA PRATHI

• On the content carousel

  Trapped in the never-ending cycle of social media scrolling in the elusive pursuit of the perfect content.
  by NIMRA AHMAD

• Opinion | Iran Has Lost Sight of Its Greatest Asset: Women

  Iranian women today are risking detainment and worse for an unimaginably simple request: the freedom to go outside the house without a head covering.
  By Firoozeh Dumas

• Opinion | ‘It’s Like a War Out There.’ Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation. - The New York Times

  Where is it all going? What is this revolt? A feminist revolution for bodily freedom and gender equality; a radical civil rights movement against misogynistic, corrupt policing; or a leaderless, unorganized uprising that demands a fundamental overhaul in relations between citizens and the state? Perhaps it is all of these things at the same time.
  By Azadeh Moaveni

• Thieves of Identity

  Baburao Bagul’s short story, “Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti,” reveals how caste fundamentally perpetuates different kinds of theft.

• The Hindu recommends: Very short books that go the distance

  Here’s TH's pick of some of the finest quick reads out there, all under 200 pages, that are perfect for the busy reader, the daily commuter, or really, anyone at all looking for a great story:

• Amar Jiban, the story of a Bengali woman whose desire to read led to a feminist revolution

  Published in 1876, Rashsundari Devi's Amar Jiban (My life) was the first-ever full-scale autobiography written by an Indian woman.

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