Posted inGender
At Home in My Panties
I didn’t move out of my parent’s house to party hard. I just wanted to watch Romedy Now and eat chips in my underwear.
Posted inLove and Sex
How Do You Know He’s Mr Right? He Accepts Your Romantic Past
When you’re in the throes of a new love, it’s easier to pretend that your past never existed than to risk retracing its thorny, sometimes painful trajectory with a new partner. But our pasts aren’t cautionary tales for our older selves — they are tomes that chronicle our rich emotional histories.
Posted inColumns
Rearview: Pulwama Attack & the Difficulty of Being an Amol Palekar in a World of Arnabs
In the backdrop of the Pulwama attack, whose freedom of expression should we be concerned about? We don’t shut down the folks propagating #TerrorismHasAReligion, or journalists who purportedly declared Aligarh Muslim University, a “university of terrorists”. But we shut down people like Amol Palekar.
Posted inPop Culture
The Secret Diary of a Saas-Bahu Writer
There’s a secret template hanging in the conference rooms of all TV channels. “In the war between Bechari Ladki and Badchalan Ladki, jeet will always be of Bechari Ladki.”
Posted inPop Culture
Following Christopher Nolan and Finally Meeting Him in Mumbai
I am an incurable Christopher Nolan fan; I took a two-day train journey to watch Interstellar, the way he wanted us to. I never thought I’d really meet him. So when I chatted with the director about film projectors while he was shooting Tenet in Mumbai, the moment felt unreal.
Posted inCoronavirus
How Will Indians Have Faith in Vaccines If Drug Companies and Politicians Fight Over It?
Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav called the vaccines being rolled out in India the “BJP’s vaccine”. Then Serum Institute of India’s Adar Poonawalla and Bharat Biotech’s Dr Krishna Ella indulged in some good old mudslinging before releasing a joint statement about their “duty to the nation”. Much before the vaccine jab, Indians are getting a shot of mistrust.
Posted inTechnology
How to Switch Off Your Notifications and Stop Being a Slave to Your Smartphone
The average smartphone user faces a deluge of notifications, imploring you to do everything from checking out an unmissable offer to ordering food so you can focus on that cricket game instead of cooking. But are they a convenience, or a curse?
Posted inVice
Chronicles of a Combiflam Addict
Sangeeta’s aging mother-in-law was a compulsive pill-popper. She took six Combiflam tablets a day to get rid of her migraine and other aches. One day, her body gave way.
Posted inGender
From the Dadis of Shaheen Bagh to the Mothers of Manipur: The Strength of Women Protesters
When women are in the street, the State better sit up and listen. So when a JNU student leader refuses to back down despite being beaten up, and when grandmothers and mothers in Shaheen Bagh gaze into the camera and demand answers of the PM, there is only so long he can hide behind silence and platitudes.
Posted inFeatures
“I Love You, Yaar”: The Four Words Indian Men Need to Say More Often
A recently conducted nationwide survey found that seven out of 10 Indian men in the age range of 25 to 45 years do not actually tell their best friends how they feel about them.