Articles

Best of Arré: The Year of the Fearless Femme

The Harvey Weinstein story was a reckoning like none other. In other fields, other battles continue. But as far as the online world is concerned, this was the Year of the Fearless Femme.

Arré Bench April 9, 2016

Technology

Netflix and Chill for Life: What Happens When AI Takes Over Our Jobs?

The case for automation at work has been made many times by very smart, scientific people. But in a world where robots run shit and humans have unlimited free time, will every day be like the weekend — a snoozefest where we do nothing at all?

Kahini Iyer April 9, 2016

Sports

How Not to Fail at the IPL Fantasy League: A Twelfth Man’s Confession

A “Kooda” player is a good-for-nothing nobody who merely makes up the numbers in any team. He is the last to be picked and first to be made to pay up for lost balls. Until the IPL Fantasy League offers a chance at redemption.

Anahad Madhav April 9, 2016

Features

January’s Streaming Surprise! Normal People, Manhunt, Love Life and More on Lionsgate Play

Lionsgate Play is the new kid on the streaming block. Launched in December, the streaming app features the best of Hollywood and a diverse selection of international shows that promises to have something for everyone.

Arré Bench April 9, 2016

Animals

Enter the Dragon: My Battle with a Bat, Straight Out of Game of Thrones

I am surprised at the number of perfectly rational people who display phobias like the fear of household lizards and heights. And I was perfectly rational too… until a bat entered my room, looking like a mini dragon, while I watched Game of Thrones.

RayC April 9, 2016

Sports

Tomorrow is a New Day for Indian Sports as Ankita Raina Makes Her Australian Open Debut

India has a potential superstar in the making. Ankita Raina is set to make her maiden appearance at the Australian Open 2021, becoming only the fourth Indian woman tennis player in the Open era to secure a place in the main draw of a Grand Slam.

Arré Bench April 9, 2016

POV

Jai Shri Ram, Bharat Mata Ki Jai! Chants that Once United Us Now Leave Us Divided

From being used to heckle Opposition MPs in Parliament to providing the soundtrack to a mounting number of public lynchings, sayings like Jai Shri Ram that once provided us comfort and united us, now create fear and sow division.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 9, 2016

Gaming

PUBG vs Pyaar: Is Gaming Better Than Sex?

My girlfriend and I are far from setting relationship goals, but I’m just glad she’s cool about threesomes – she, PUBG, and I. All’s well in paradise now that the rules of the game have changed a bit.

Nasir Nawaaz April 9, 2016

Bollywood

Ludo Review: Anurag Basu Loses the Game and the Plot in His New Film

Anurag Basu’s Ludo is a film about life and death that wants to be meaningful and meaningless at the same time. It translates the futility of finding logic in unpredictability and the method in the madness by way of four different genres. It might come across as the filmmaker’s most structured outing, but it is his most chaotic film.

Poulomi Das April 9, 2016

Sports

The Tale of the India-Australia Test Series Cannot Be Told in Statistics

The scorecard can never do justice to the historic India vs Australia Test series we just witnessed. This is not the story about great tons and wickets, it’s a story of heroics and emotions – of Cheteshwar Pujara’s bruises, Mohammad Siraj’s tears, Hanuma Vihari’s hamstring, and Ajinkya Rahane’s grit.

Hardik Rajgor April 9, 2016