Posted inCyber
A Love Letter to Nokia 3310
The return of Nokia 3310 brings back memories of the simple days of ASL small talk and the game of Snake.
Posted inDisArré
SCOOP! An Evening with Ivanka Trump
Weedward & Bongstein, the world’s finest journalists, shadowed Ivanka Trump at Hyderabad’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit to see how she got on with PM Modi.
Posted inModern Family
Why Can’t Indian Families Let Us Adult In Peace?
When I turned 22, I believed that I would live away from home, revel in my financial independence, and travel across the world, no questions asked. However reality involves my grandparents implying I settle down while they are alive and my mother demanding to know the minutiae of my spendings.
Posted inPOV
How My Hirsutism Made Me The Son My Father Did Not Have
Dealing with body hair as a woman is one thing, but my condition meant that hair grew in places that would make people scrutinise it. Incredibly, it’s something that brought me closer to my father like never before.
Posted inBollywood
Judgementall Hai Kya Review: Kangana Ranaut is a Hoot in This Confused Mental Health Thriller
Judgementall Hai Kya wants to be too many things – a dark thriller, an indictment of a society that rarely believes women, and a PSA on mental health. Despite Kangana Ranaut’s riveting performance, the movie is undone by its inability to straddle either of these genres convincingly.
Posted inLove and Sex
Ed Hardy & Other Absolute Nos
In a world of too many greys, it is comforting to have some black-or-white absolutes. Like knowing you couldn’t date a guy with a dog named Tuffy.
Posted inPop Culture
Fantastic Beasts and How to Screw with Muggles
Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them is an exercise in how art and advertising screw with emotions, and an example of how we fall for it every time.
Posted inPop Culture
Hey Potheads, Leave the Food Alone
Stoners bug me because they eat everything. They open the fridge, and they start polishing off all its contents – even the salt and pepper and half-cut nimbu and salad dressing.
Posted inBooks
What’s India Reading? Introducing India’s own NYT list
From Top-50 fiction and non-fiction to Top-25 children and YA, an Indian-centric bestseller list will let readers figure out which books to dive into next.
Posted inPop Culture
The Fast and the Furious: Hollywood’s Version of Rajinikanth’s Stunts
Today, the ninth instalment of Fast and Furious hits theatres, promising to be loud, reckless, and most importantly, fast and furious. How has a series about driving fast and making quips been one of Hollywood’s most bankable properties for 18 years?