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In Meghalaya's remote hills, one man is preserving a 500-year-old tradition of living root bridges-before it disappears. The post The Man Who Grows Bridges from Roots appeared first on Factor Daily.

Illustrations by Somesh KumarPhotographs byPankaj Mishra 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 Nat

Commonly called 'revenge porn', 'leak', or 'MMS scandal', image-based abuse is a widespread and systemic yet untrammelled issue that destroys lives.This article is the first in a series on image-based abuse in India. Content warning: This article discusse

As I sat across from Dhiraj, I couldn't help but wonder about the duality of his public persona. To some, he's an enigma-edgy, even a bit restless (a lot, at times). To others, he's disarmingly simple and brutally honest. It's a duality that doesn't escap

At 39, Santosh Ojha has his work cut out for him. He sits in a barber's chair at a salon he owns and gets a head massage week after week. A videographer captures this on camera. The massage videos, skilfully shot with heightened visual and audio-sensory i

Finding Shamnad Basheer 22 December 2022 by Pankaj Mishra "Who is Shamnad Basheer?" This question echoed in my mind as Sachin Malhan of Agami spoke during a meeting in November 2021. The more I heard, the more I realized how little the world knew of this

We've never been more involved with our screens, but is the relationship a healthy one? As I sit down to write this piece, my smartphone is in the next room, timed to remain silent for 45 minutes, during which I don't want to move away from my writing des

In 2019, tech companies reported 16,836,694 reports of child sexual abuse images online Of this, India accounts for nearly 1,987,430 reports the single largest out of 241 countries That is - every minute, there are at least 3 reports from India alone. Des