With a national ban increasingly unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users and raises mental health concerns. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead ...

A January night in the late 1990s. Jogia, 30, was tapping away at leather soles with iron spikes at his roadside shoe shop in Rajpur. Those days Rajpur in south Calcutta was not quite the busy ...