Lady Bird Archives

You Will End Up with the Wrong Partner. Here’s Why

The idea of a special someone is, in many ways, an impossible thing. It makes you pine for a love so perfect that it almost seems made up. This irrational, pampered idea of love is the nemesis of every steady relationship.

Poulomi Das July 23, 2016

Modern Family

My Sister, the Lady Bird and the Everyday Drama with Mama

I watched Saoirse Ronan perfect the role of Christine aka Lady Bird in the movie by the same name and couldn’t help but feel a surge of warmth and stress through my veins. I know this story of the mama-daughter drama too well.

Runa Mukherjee July 12, 2016

Pop Culture

The Predictably Short Flight of Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig consistently understates the industry she inhabits, and remains herself, howsoever flawed or naïve. There must be a word that defines this lightness of being. Might we call her Lady Bird?

Manik Sharma May 7, 2016

POV

Two Steps Behind: Being a Runner-Up in a World Full of Winners

Being a runner-up in a world that places an unbending prestige on being the absolute best at everything is like being a dusty cassette in the time of Apple Music; an expiry-date-laden book shop in the age of the immortal Kindle; wholly redundant.

Poulomi Das May 6, 2016

Pop Culture

Arré Checklist: How to be Oscar-literate in Seven Steps

The Academy Awards are just around the corner and it is time to prep for Oscar film conversations at the bar and on the train. Here’s how you can get ready to reel off Call Me By Your Name and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri factoids in five minutes.

Poulomi Das March 21, 2016