Politics on the Playing Field: What Do Neymar and NaMo Have in Common?
Elevating players like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar to demigod status comes at the cost of the team and greater good. If that doesn’t…
Ladies Never Get the Leg Piece
As a child, what I hated most about hosting, was having to wait until I got to eat. At first, I thought we let the…
Cheers To Myself, My Friend
Trying to understand my love for alcohol through the words of the world’s booziest writers.
Why Women Like Tavleen Singh Choose Not to be a Part of #MeToo
Journalist Tavleen Singh has reduced #MeToo to a bunch of well-heeled urban women complaining over a bit of workplace harassment. But it is actually Singh…
Kerala HC’s Ruling Against Sexist Hostel Rules Has Shown the Way. Time for All Our Universities to Follow
The Kerala High Court recently upheld that women students have the same freedoms as men. The implications of these college rules go far beyond the…
Chhichhore Review: A Heartwarming Excursion Into College, Friendships, and Failures
Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore is an unabashed acknowledgement of male failure. If Dangal eulogised individual glory, Chhichhore contradicts it, attempting to universalise an oft-neglected fact: Even…
Newness and the Restless Love Lives of Millennials
In the age of dating apps, millennials now face the ageless conundrum of settling down, served with a technological update. Earlier, we used to chase…
Scoop! Amitabh Bachchan Opens Up about Paradise Papers
Weedward & Bongstein questioned Amitabh Bachchan about the Paradise Papers allegations, and he said, “The whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin…”
Thanks for The Princess Switch, Netflix. But I’d Rather Watch Love Actually
Holiday films are to me what Tom and Jerry is to children, so I was overjoyed when Netflix released two holiday season films last week…
The 11300 Crore-Rupee Question: Who Pays for These Financial Frauds?
Hint: It’s NEVER the men in the middle of financial storms who pay up.