Mohua Das

A woman washes dishes in a Gurugram apartment while a camera clipped to her records the movement of her hands around steel utensils and soap suds In a textile unit in Maharashtra, a worker stitches seams under a head-mounted camera that tracks tiny wrist adjustments and fabric tension Somewhere else, a delivery rider records himself weaving through traffic on a scooter, a cleaner folds hotel linen, and a street vendor sorts vegetables into neat pyramidsThese are ordinary tasks. But for a growing number of AI companies, they are something else entirely: training material for robots that find these tiny movements that humans perform without thinking — like folding fabric, rinsing a plate or balancing a scooter through traffic — surprisingly difficult to replicate.

At 91, Gulzar has outlived at least two versions of the city, the one that destiny “deposited” him into in 1950, and the one he continues to observe and absorb. ‘Aamchi Mumbai’, his new collection of 36 poems and 25 stories, is not an attempt to explain Mumbai in 2026 but to preserve the city that lives inside him, populated by migrants and mill workers, eccentrics and survivors.

The past fortnight has been a terrible one for anyone hoping to get away with murder. Three killings, four accused, three very different crime scenes, and all the suspects were tracked down within hours.

Outside, Mumbai’s monsoon is doing what it does best… turning the city into an immersive installation of its own. Inside somewhere, visitors wander through forests of digital flowers, chase bubbles that pop into light, and find their own shadows swallowed and multiplied by the walls around them.

The alleged abuse of toddlers by their nannies at a Bengaluru daycare has rattled parents across India. From cameras and caregiver training to regulation and red flags, Swati Popat Vats, president of the Early Childhood Association (ECA), India, speaks to Mohua Das about what parents need to knowHow badly has the daycare abuse case in Bengaluru shaken up parents and their trust in daycare centres?It truly has, because these are horrific cases and not just isolated lapses.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For years, the conversation around female genital mutilation (FGM) in India has centred on one community, the Dawoodi Bohras.

Pune’s Lohagad Fort has stood for over 2,000 years, outlasting Maratha sieges and many monsoons. But this June, a 20-year-old bride-to-be managed to do, in one afternoon, what neither war nor weather ever did: get it trending on social media when she decided that the macabre act of pushing her fiancé down 3,389 ft was less frightening than the idea of waking up next to his bare scalp for the rest of her life.

Before the interview begins, Morgan Freeman starts talking about Ravi Shankar. ‘He played with The Beatles, and The Beatles were greatly influenced by the blues.

There is a version of this story in which two 12-year-old girls disappear into a Bengal border town and are never found. Last week, that version came perilously close to becoming reality.

The internet already has a nickname for them: ‘pervert glasses’. Last week, Instagram said it would start removing videos filmed on Meta’s smart glasses when they are used to harass strangers, after pickup artists and prank accounts began secretly recording unsuspecting people.