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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unveiling the journey through YouTube stardom, this narrative exposes the challenges creators face in maintaining a relentless pace of content creation, combating online harassment, and striving to ...

Silk, India’s oldest mailing list, was founded in 1998 by tech-savvy teenagers. Despite the rise of social media, Silk continues to attract passionate individuals seeking in-depth conversations and a ...

Anand is a journalist exploring the impact of technology on society in India. One of his key interests also lies in trying to make sense of the way in which digital privacy is evolving and shaping the ...