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It Takes Two to PhD
The incredible story of Akshansh Gupta, who was born with a severe movement disorder, and Mahajan bhaiya, who helped him get a doctorate.
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Communitatti: Musings from a Community Toilet
Communal loos are a big part of the daily grind in Mumbai’s chawls. These little cubicles are places where people sneak in to grab a smoke, watch porn, or scribble deep thoughts on the wall.
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One Night @ a Viagra Call Centre
The little blue pill ushered in a sex revolution 20 years ago. Today, Mumbai millennials continue to reap its benefits – helping middle-aged Americans boost their sex lives, over the phone.
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The Difficulty of Being Taimur Ali Khan
Taimur Ali Khan has his whole life ahead of him and it does not include wars and genocide.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Last of the Moderates
We’ll remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the leader with a great capacity for reflection. Unlike so many men in positions of power today, Vajpayee admitted to mistakes, fallibility, and even the odd misplaced idea at times. Forget being a moderate – in the times that we occupy, he now feels like a pacifist.
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Nostalgia, College and Friends: How KK Helped me Adult
Because I grew up in the internet age, I discovered KK fairly late and yet I found in his voice, in his music, an instant resting place for everything that I found unsettling in life.
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Black Nights Matter
Tucked away in a corner of Bangalore, a cosmopolitan night club appears like a safe zone for Africans, but like the rest of India, even this is not.
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Akshay Kumar: The God of Timely Things
On his 53rd birthday, Akshay Kumar remains where he was at the beginning… hearing the cash register go ka-ching and smirking at all the other idiots trying so desperately to win.
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People of Poi Tanda vs the Grim Reaper
In drought-hit Marathwada, where death looms large, other villages have surrendered. But a nondescript hamlet in Beed is winning the fight.
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My Childhood in a Prison Cell
Karishma has spent most of her life in Bahraich jail with her undertrial mother. She's a regular six-year-old, even though her best friends are constable Asha and jailer Pandey.