Articles

Did YouTube Really Need a Govinda Channel?

It’s not clear why Govinda has decided to become a cringe-pop Hallmark greeting card on YouTube in 2020, but it does beg the question: Who are the 21k people who are listening to these songs and why haven’t they discovered Baba Sehgal yet?

Arré Bench April 22, 2016

POV

Is 25 the Deadline to Make New Friends?

I have become reluctant to forge new friendships. Like everything else in this age, my emotions can be summed up in one catchy hashtag: #NoNewFriends. Is this all part of growing up, being on the other side of 25?

Dushyant Shekhawat April 22, 2016

Features

Neeraj Ghaywan: The Middle-Class Boy Who Breathed Life into Bollywood’s Masaan and Sacred Games

The award-winning filmmaker, Neeraj Ghaywan, quit a cushy corporate life and charted his own course at 30. The result is sensitive films like Masaan, that drew accolades at home and abroad, and the second season of Sacred Games.

Pranay Dewani April 22, 2016

Gender

Should It Matter to Your Employer If You’re Gay? Why Then is Delhi HC Lawyer’s Elevation as Judge Delayed?

Delhi High Court lawyer Saurabh Kirpal believes he is facing discrimination on the basis of his sexual orientation. He has been recommended for elevation in October 2017 but since his initial nomination the decision to elevate Kripal has been deferred four times.

Arré Bench April 22, 2016

Love and Sex

The Invisible Sex Life of New Parents

The sex life of new parents is like Donald Trump’s brain – it’s non-existent. If it does exist, it is rare, awkward, and revolves around the bowel movements of your child.

Vani Rane April 22, 2016

Pop Culture

20 Years of Fight Club: How David Fincher Takes a Sharp Jab at the Male Ego in This Nihilistic Film

Fight Club is not meant to be the Gospel of the “modern man”. Instead, it does the complete opposite: it takes a sharp jab at the male ego and its heroic pomposity.

The Faunlet April 22, 2016

Pop Culture

RRR Review: A Visual Masterpiece

Rajamouli’s latest feature film is just as visually invigorating as his previous films that though it could have used a tighter script, is everything you’d want to go back to the cinemas for.

Divya Unny April 22, 2016

Sports

The Top Three Reasons to Look Forward to India-New Zealand T20s (If You’re an Indian Fan)

Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma or Jasprit Bumrah-Mohammed Shami, who will be India’s Sakht Jodi in the T20 series against New Zealand?

Arré Bench April 22, 2016

Bollywood

From Dostana to Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhaan: How Bollywood’s Queer Stories Have Evolved

A film like Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhaan couldn’t have been conjured out of thin air. It was preceded by several underseen films that had to walk so that Ayushmanna Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar could run (and catch a Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge-inspired train).

Poulomi Das April 22, 2016

Pop Culture

What Carrie Bradshaw Did to a Punjabi Boy

For a pre-pubescent West Delhi boy, Sex and The City mainstreamed some revolutionary ideas. But most of all, I understood that not only do women talk sex, but enjoy it too.

Parthshri Arora April 22, 2016