Welcome, First Time in Korea? How K-Dramas Crash Landed on Us During the Time of Isolation
Thanks to the pandemic (and Netflix), many of us stuck at home have succumbed to the lure of a world of South Korean men and…
The Game That Will Get Us Gold
If India hosts the 2024 Olympics, “Passing the Parcel” should be made an official game. Then we can justify having an ambassador like Salman Khan,…
The Lion Air Crash and Other Times When Planes Came Down
The morbid visual of a huge metal object plummeting from the sky commands a grim fascination. From the hair-raising footage of a plane crashing into…
What We Should Talk About When We Talk About Nationalism to Our Children
When my five-year-old niece confused India with South Africa while watching a cricket match, I realised that none of us are born with a sense…
What My Experiments with Polyamory Taught Me about Love
Polyamory has become the new kale juice – everyone’s had a taste of it. And just like kale juice, not everyone has a taste for…
Anti-CAA Protests: Is This What the Freedom Movement Felt Like?
As a child, I would often ask my grandfather what August 15, 1947 was like, only to get drab one liners like “Arre, kya jashn…
Adam Driver Might Not Win an Oscar. Why That’s Not Such a Bad Thing
In Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Adam Driver’s 24th outing in a career spanning a decade, the actor delivers everything that an Oscar-worthy performance stipulates –…
The Video Game that Predicted the IPL
In the world of IPL, where no record is safe and no feat seems impossible on the cricket pitch, one little video game published in…
21 Years of Hera Pheri: This Priyadarshan Comedy is Greatest Uplifter of All Time
In these dark times, my friends and I turn to Hera Pheri, the heist comedy that informed our childhoods. The Priyadarshan film is a bunch…
Vijay Mallya Does a Kim K! A DisArré Exclusive Report
In an exclusive interview with Arré, Mallya defends minor “loans”, opens up on new reality TV show.