Dhiraj Rajaram’s Battle for Mu Sigma – A gripping story of personal struggles, mental resilience, and a daring buyback of nearly a billion dollars. As I sat across from Dhiraj, I couldn’t help but ...

As Vaishali Thakker, a 23-year old open source programmer looked over the hall filled with around 200 people, she didn’t know how to react to what she had just heard. Thakker was one of the five women ...

Through the journey of the dedicated contributors in the OpenStreetMap community in India, this story explores the rise of OpenStreetMap community, highlighting its role in disaster relief and urban ...

Priti Mahesh is currently the Chief Programme Coordinator at Toxics Link. She has been campaigning on the issues of waste and chemicals for more than a decade, with special focus on e-waste, plastic ...

Rohini Lakshané is a technologist, interdisciplinary researcher and Wikimedian. She is a Fellow at Factor Daily (2023-24). An engineer by training, Rohini has worked on several research and advocacy ...

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 ...

There are different ways to make gadgets deliberately obsolete; through its quality, its functionality, and/or its appearance. One of the common methods used by the electronics industry ‘designing for ...

Inspired by Aamir Khan's ripped-to-shreds physique in Dangal, Ramarko Sengupta signed up for a DNA analysis by Gene Box. Here's what he found. Ever since I learnt that Aamir Khan achieved his ...

I first heard of “Morpheus Gang” in February 2014 when I wrote this story for TechCrunch about how and why it was shutting down. Sameer Guglani, one of Morpheus founders, wrote this emotional and ...

We live in a world where every byte of personal, behavioural data is tracked and mined in the name of understanding users better. There are hundreds of cookies that pounce on users the moment they ...

The SC hearings on right to privacy will continue today (August 2) and it is quite likely to be the final day of arguments in court. At one point, while following the tweets on Day 5 (August 1) of the ...

OPERATION P-HUNT 20.1 As dawn broke over the ancient port city of Kollam on June 27, the police team looked up at the passing clouds anxiously. “Not today, please,” was the common thought. It had ...