Books on the Doorstep. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools all over India were closed, the importance of libraries grew even more. Nita Luthria Row, executive director of the Adhyayan ...

Pankaj Mishra is a journalist and co-founder of FactorDaily, with a career spanning over two decades and multiple newsrooms, from The Economic Times and Mint to TechCrunch and Times of India.

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 ...

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 ...

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Mental health has slowly made its entry into the vocabulary of urban India but it’s far from the acceptance required to help nearly 14% of the Indian population with mental health issues cope. In this ...

A media lab for creating stories as public goods With the evolution of FactorDaily’s storytelling approach came an unexpected opportunity that expanded our mission beyond traditional journalism. We ...

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, ...

Shadma Shaikh is a technology journalist and cofounder at FactorDaily with a journalism career spanning a decade of covering business, technology and startups with newsrooms like The Economic Times ...

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