Posted inPeople
30 is the New 50
Here’s what it’s like to be thirty-five, from my point of view. No kids, but a flat that we run with admirable orderliness. Instead of doing tequila shots, we do juice detoxes.
Posted inBollywood
Bhoot: Part One Review: Dharma Productions, Please Leave Horror Alone
There’s very little point to watching Bhanu Pratap Singh's Bhoot, apart from developing a fondness for the time Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu used to be chasing ghosts.
Posted inPop Culture
Ghoul Review: Humans Are the Real Monsters in Netflix’s Horror Mini Series
Like Get Out and Pari, the Radhika Apte-starrer Ghoul underlines horror with context and uses it as a device to drive home a point about prejudice and gross injustice. In all three, humans are the hunters – not the hunted.
Posted inFashion
Aviators, White Designer Kurtas, and the Evolution of the Bollywood Holi Party
As with most of the modern world’s ills, it’s easy to blame Bollywood for a dramatic shift in our Holi aesthetic. But let’s be honest – the Holi look is all because of Instagram. And Rekha.
Posted inPeople
Trespasser for Life
Every time a Chinese dignitary arrives in India, I attempt a protest against the occupation of Tibet. My last demonstration landed me in a smelly Goan marsh – for 20 hours.
Posted inEarth
And Then the Smog Struck
In Delhi, we’ve never actually done anything. At best, we’ve pointed out the flaws and the issues plaguing us; at worst, we’ve exploited them. We were smug. Until the smog struck.
Posted inLove and Sex
Unbearable Love for the Unreachable One
How long is it appropriate to mope over a broken relationship? “Forever,” the abyss of pop culture seems to be telling us.
Posted inSports
Can We Please Take a Moment to Cheer for Hima Das?
Between Jofra Archer's deadly bouncers at Ashes and the shock draw in the Premier League, it’s been a hell of a weekend for sports fans. But amid all this frenzy, there is a soothing balm — and her name is Hima Das. The 19-year-old Assamese track star has quietly picked up six gold medals in as many weeks.
Posted inPop Culture
Love in the Time of Name-Dropping Márquez
Before reading Gabriel García Márquez, I had no idea that one was allowed to write like that. I have lived a different life because I’ve read his books.
Posted inGender
Home Run: Why Every Woman Needs A House of Her Own
A few days ago, I invested in a house of my own. I want a home where I don’t have to spend three days in a month lurking outside the kitchen because it’s “that time of the month”. I want a house where I can’t be removed from no matter what (or who) I do. Not by misogynist landlords or housing societies that randomly decide they don’t want “bachelors”.