Posted inWeird
Spies in the Sky
The next time you’re tempted to laugh at security officials scrambling to arrest a pigeon that flew across the border, think twice.
Posted inPOV
What Will It Take For Us to Avoid Train Tragedies Like the Bihar Derailment?
For a country that aspires to build Smart Cities everywhere, turn its financial capital into Shanghai, and wishes to be at the forefront of global innovation and technology, incidents like the Seemanchal Express derailment are inconvenient reminders of just how far we have to go.
Posted inPeople
The Heroes of India’s Black Money Economy
Angadias are the nucleus of India’s rural and urban cash economy. You'd think the demonetisation drive would've rendered them jobless. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Posted inGender
#MeToo: How Does the World Judge the Wives, Daughters, and Sisters of Sexual Harassers?
As scores of working women accuse, name and shame their predators, quickly turning them into poster boys of hate for all of womankind, what happens to the wives, the sisters and the daughters?
Posted inPOV
What My Stuttering Taught Me About Disabilities and Arranged Marriage
I grew up receiving the best of education, surrounded by the most loving friends and family and never being treated as “different” because of my speech impediment. But ever since I entered the “shaadi ki umar ho gaye hai” phase, my stammering has been viewed as an imperfection.
Posted inPOV
“Papa Nahin Aane Denge”: Why I Miss the Excuse that Saved Me from New Year’s Eve Disasters
I am in Mumbai without parental guidance and am expected to have a banger New Year’s scene. The only problem is that I am a Parvati who was never Poo to begin with. In fact, I am that next-level accha baccha who sits at home enthusiastically watching year-end award shows.
Posted inPeople
To Afterlife and Back: Tales from the Operating Table
My surgeon father told me that operations were frightening, because some people lived, some died, and some dangled in between. The ones that almost died were downright terrifying.
Posted inGender
One Year of #MeToo: Do Men and Women Understand Consent Differently?
For many men, consent is a boundary that has to be challenged, rather than respected: Whether it’s Nana Patekar, who insisted there was a “misunderstanding” between him and Tanushree Dutta, or the allegations against Aziz Ansari that were chalked up to a bad date.
Posted inPeople
The Boy Who Lived
Prashant and Nisha Jain, parents of Maharashtra’s youngest paediatric cadaver organ donor, have become torchbearers of the cause. The gift of four lives is Darsh’s legacy.
Posted inPop Culture
What American Sitcoms Taught India About Homosexuality
It was through American TV that many of us Indians got our first exposure to regular gay characters. With no real-life examples to know or understand from, watching amazing queer characters on screen like Jack McFarland from Will & Grace helped shape the idea of how similar they really were to me.