Why Do So Many Women Treat Period Leave as a Sign of Weakness?
The period leave debate was bound to cause a stir, but we didn’t know that the opposition would come from many women. The antipathy shows…
Aadhaar Battle: The Backbenchers Win This Round
The government announced today that linking your Aadhaar card to your mobile phones or bank accounts would no longer be mandatory. Three cheers for the…
35 Years of Chameli ki Shaadi: Amrita Singh’s Chameli is the OG Small-Town Heroine Full of Chutzpah
It would not be wrong to say that in Chameli, Basu Chatterjee gave Bollywood a heroine much unlike any that had been seen before. Amrita…
Amitabh Bachchan is Unrecognisable in Gulabo Sitabo. It Isn’t the First Time He Has Transformed for a Role
The word “versatile” is thrown around casually these days, but Amitabh Bachchan was versatile before it was cool. As his latest outing Gulabo Sitabo releases…
Millennial and Proud
Who is Gen X to go pointing fingers at us millennials? This was a generation that would voluntarily watch films starring Mithun and Jeetendra.
Do Mainland Indians Have the Right to Impose Our Nationalism on the People of Andaman & Nicobar?
The Andaman & Nicobar islands are at best an oddity forced onto the consciousness of us mainlanders. The archipelago’s location and exoticism makes it ideal…
Dear Indian Parents, Your Kids are Not Your Retirement Plan
The idea of children becoming their parents’ retirement plan, is seeded somewhere in the idea of parents being education sponsors of their children. Toxic codependency…
Dear Blackberry, you were more than just a phone
Gadgets today look, sound and feel like each other, but only a decade ago, one of them stood out from the rest, most incredibly for…
Avengers: Endgame Was Exactly the Tonic My Mental Health Needed
I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder; the condition is often defined by intense emotions and the struggle to belong. I was always wary to be…
Tune in to Torture: When Did TV Become So Bleak?
It’s not that every show should be a cosy sitcom populated by well-lit, attractive people. But do they all have to be a gritty rural…