pooja Archives

PewDiePie vs T-Series: No Matter Who Wins This Scrappy Internet Brawl, We Lose

When did YouTube become a battleground between PewDiePie, a Swedish man-child who makes memes for a living, and T-Series, an implacable corporation that relentlessly polices social media?

#VALUE! June 13, 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

20 Years after Dil To Pagal Hai, Checking on Rahul and Pooja

After hugging lustfully in front of the audience in 1997, Rahul and Pooja got hitched. But it’s not easy to live with a man who uses Coke as mouthwash and a woman who records all her feelings on audio cassettes.

Jackie Thakkar April 29, 2016