What Bollywood Always Gets Wrong About the Differently Abled
Why can’t Bollywood filmmakers seem to give disabled protagonists challenges other than overcoming their disability? It isn’t as if we don’t have precedents. In films…
Why We Need to Stop Judging Women Who Sport the Sindoor
To sindoor or not to sindoor, is just one of the big questions in the lives of married women today. It has been vilified as…
Pushpa, I Love Tears: How to Counter Dick Bosses with Some Weeping
There is nothing wrong in using your tears to have your way at work, especially if you encounter male bosses who believe in the power…
The View at 40 | Why Is Everyone Having Really Loud Sex in Four More Shots Please!?
The View at 40 is a weekly column about sniping at youth. This week, we watched the new web series, Four More Shots Please! and…
A.I.SHA Is Back With Season 3. Here’s What You Need to Know
Teasing some big reveals to come, the trailer of A.I.SHA Season 3 promises an escalation of the show’s conflicts around cybercrime and the battle between…
The Perfect Winter Soup is Here
My grandmom’s Goan-style chicken, sweet corn, and vegetable soup is all you need in the winter.
The Cutting Edge of Razors
Back in the day, men used clamshells as tweezers to yank out excess hair. Thank god for razors.
Moral Police or Pervert? The Anatomy of an Online Troll
Indian trolls are mostly sanskari or sleazy AF, but instead of squabbling among themselves, they get along just fine. In fact, they are two sides…
The Poet Who Belongs to Everyone: Finding Gulzar Wherever I Go
With Gulzar, the more you discover, the more you crave. Even when I didn’t know it, Gulzar was all around. That is how enmeshed his…
Why Indian Women Need to Tell More Lust Stories
Erotica for women, by women, is only just coming of age, even though the earliest writings of female desire go back to 600 BC. The…