Posted inModern Family
Kaho Naa… Parivaar Hai
The routine abrasiveness of our family life dissolved in darkened cinema halls. We’ve cried together in the saddest pits of Kal Ho Naa Ho and laughed like close friends during Hera Pheri.
Posted inCoronavirus
I Miss Eating in a Restaurant and It Isn’t About the Food
During the pandemic, the one thing I have missed most is being able to go to a restaurant and have a meal I enjoy. I will know things have returned to “normalcy” when we can sit in a place we love with our people, and not have to worry obsessively about who touched our food.
Posted inPOV
India’s Two-Faced Eco-Activism: We Celebrate Van Mahotsav and then Axe Trees At Aarey
The Save Aarey activists are neither paid puppets with a hidden agenda nor overly woke anarchists. It has always been a citizen’s movement, and at the heart of it are people who have jobs to do, bills to pay, and are just as worried that this city will completely implode one day.
Posted inGender
I’m Not Nirbhaya. Or Shakti. I’m Just Scared
Each time I find myself on a deserted road, my mind goes into overdrive. I think of objects I have that could be used as weapons such as the handle of my bag or the cord of my phone charger with which I could strangle a potential assailant. But that’s not just me. That’s every woman in India.
Posted inDisArré
The Patna Papers
Weedward & Bongstein return with an explosive report from ground zero of Bihar’s examination controversy.
Posted inPOV
Why the Supreme Court Verdict on Forest Rights Act Might Spell Disaster for Lakhs of Adivasis
The Centre’s apathy is the biggest enabler of yesterday’s SC verdict that ordered for forced evictions of over 1 million forest-dwelling households. The verdict is perhaps the cruelest blow on undermining the Forest Rights Act, that concerns itself with conserving the rights of the marginalised communities.
Posted inFeatures
How to Make Money and Influence People: Advice for Future Internet Stars
Gone are the days when being online 24/7 was a hallmark of unproductivity. Today, not only is it possible to make money online, but you also get to live your best life while doing it.
Posted inPop Culture
Killing Terrorists Softly, the Tiger Zinda Hai Way
In Tiger Zinda Hai, Salman Khan single-handedly kills close to 300 terrorists by destroying more cars than Rohit Shetty, without getting a hair or muscle out of place. If this isn’t wonderland, I don’t know what is.
Posted inPOV
Why Professionalism Needs to Die
It’s time we write an obituary of professionalism. Today, professionalism involves showing up at office (even though you can do most of the work from anywhere else), not asking questions above your pay grade, and wearing a shirt not folded at the elbows.
Posted inFeatures
Spotify’s Ruk Jaana Nahi underlines the significance of community in a crisis like the pandemic.
Narrated by Rajkummar Rao, Spotify’s collection of stories #RukJaanaNahi reiterates the importance of a sense of a community and the aspiration to face crisis together.