Posted inPop Culture
B-Town Wonder Women and their Wingmen
In 2016, we saw movies like Pink and Dangal that were premised on the struggles of female heroes – and the men who enabled them.
Posted inPeople
Jab Main Office Baccha Tha Badi Shararat Karta Tha
Are you at that phase of your career when expectation levels are at zero and indulgence levels are set to max? Enjoy it. Save the existential angst for later in your career. The days of this happy, consequence-free existence that you’re too ignorant to enjoy right now, are numbered.
Posted inFashion
The Dawn of “Protest Fashion”: What India Wore to the Anti-CAA Protests
The anti-CAA/NRC protests that have gripped the country in the last two months, is testament to the fact that fashion and revolution have gone hand in hand. Several images have stood out during the protests – from Chandrashekhar Azad’s blue scarf to the women who’ve worn the hijab as a political statement.
Posted inPOV
Why Is It Never The Man’s Fault?
A professor was forced to resign in Kolkata, for images she put up of herself on her social media. For some inane reason this non-imposition has been deemed her fault.
Posted inPOV
“Bro, Hindi Mein Bol Na!” What I Miss the Most in Hindi-Speaking Delhi is My Mother Tongue
As someone who was rebuked back home in Kolkata for speaking too much English and not enough Bangla, I never imagined what I’d miss the most after moving to a new city is my mother tongue.
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
Dissecting the Bengali Nyaka
Nyakami, for the uninitiated, is the art of pretend coyness, coquetry, whining, attention-seeking, and everything in between. To think of the Urban Nyaka Girl, think of Kareena Kapoor’s Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... Only, with a bit more “kalchaar”.
Posted inFirst Person
My Mother: Beautiful, Loving, Missing for 21 Years
On April 28, 2001, my mother stepped out of our house with a small wallet to buy brown paper for our books. We were in the middle of our annual ritual of covering our brand new textbooks. This memory would have held no significance had my mother returned. She did not.
Posted inAnimals
Dogorrhea: The Deadly Disease that Plagues Doggy Moms
Dogorrhea is a medical condition that affects one in every twenty humans on the planet. If you are a dog owner, you are most likely already infected. Dogorrhea makes people believe that anyone who isn’t besotted with canines is an asshole. And anyone who isn’t a canine is an idiot.