Bangalore’s growing community of urban farmers

The feud between Alagiri and Stalin threatens to split the DMK

Two orphaned boys found a home in Italy when their children’s home in Bangalore put them up for adoption. Soon after, the boys’ maternal aunt and her husband lodged a case, protesting they had not been consulted

Rural library initiatives take books to children who had no access to them

Easy to lead and never lonely: that’s life inside a retirement colony

Adopting kids in India isn’t easy to begin with; adopting twin girls has legal complications. Anuradha Nagaraj recounts her struggle to bring her daughters home

Victims of the Saradha scam may not have been educated and alert enough, but an entire system of governance has been caught napping

The story of a convict who jumped parole and assumed a new identity so cleverly that his lie is yet to be nailed conclusively in court

The price that two journalists are paying for resisting Mangalore’s moral police

The story of a man’s search for his son who went missing in Manchester

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