Articles

Arré Checklist: How to Make Women’s Cricket Great… Again

Here’s how BCCI can disprove those who insist that a woman’s league doesn’t make financial sense, or that women don’t have the physical prowess to match up to the testosterone-fuelled aggression we expect from the modern T20 format.

Kahini Iyer July 14, 2016

Modern Family

Raising My Alcoholic Mother

Mama became an alcoholic before I was born and drank every evening through my childhood. Growing up around someone like that, you tend to become shrewd early on. You invent dry days at the snap of your fingers and dismiss suicide wishes as pointless drama.

Maya Palit July 14, 2016

Pop Culture

Roma Review: Alfonso Cuarón Masterfully Captures the Memory of Childhood

Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical Roma doesn’t simply imitate or recreate life in an upscale neighbourhood in 1970 Mexico City. Instead the black-and-white spectacle captures the memory of childhood, in unflinching clarity.

Poulomi Das July 14, 2016

Pop Culture

Why The Office’s Dwight Schrute is Our Favourite Fool

You can’t have enough of Rainn Wilson’s dorky megalomaniac in The Office. Dwight Kurt Schrute III is the most sharp-witted portrayal of a socially awkward anti-hero that I’ve seen. Imagining the sitcom without Dwight is near impossible.

Jackie Thakkar July 14, 2016

Pop Culture

Kapil Sharma’s I’m Not Done Yet is a Charm Offensive that only Confirms his Pedigree

Kapil Sharma has been routinely written off and criticised for his brand of comedy, but it’s also fact that he is now too big to fail, or become the butt of someone else’s joke in a practical sense. His Netflix special only proves that Sharma can become the comedian, woke audiences want him to be, but simply chooses not to.

Aparnna Hajirnis July 14, 2016

Pop Culture

My Day Chasing Pokemon in Mumbai

PokeGo has driven the world crazy chasing virtual monsters but it’s had a few bonus benefits in the real world too.

Tanvi Dhulia July 14, 2016

Gender

Goodbye #WomenSupportingWomen. Welcome to the New Slanderous Sisterhood

Just a few months ago, the social media challenge of #WomenSupportingWomen had bathed us all in a hallowed glow. Now, as we see Kangana Ranaut and Navika Kumar tearing into Rhea Chakraborty and Urmila Matondkar every other day in our national blood sport, the idea of women supporting women seems almost quaint.

Kahini Iyer July 14, 2016

POV

How I grew up with Lata Mangeshkar’s voice

My Lata Mangeshkar connection would always be bound by home and nostalgia. I didn’t immediately take to her, and though her politics hasn’t always appealed to me ,her stature, her longevity and ultimately her legacy can neither be doubted nor denied

Pragyan Mohanty July 14, 2016

Pop Culture

Delhi Crime Review: An Unsettling Retelling of the 2012 Delhi Gang-Rape Probe, Minus Any Super Cops

Delhi Crime chronicles the three days of a nationwide manhunt for the six men responsible for the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Much of what happens in the series is well-known, but it is still compelling for it doesn’t glamourise either the police’s job or its capability to do so. This is reality, the series seems to say – deal with it.

Manik Sharma July 14, 2016

First Person

My Life as a Juvenile Graffiti Vandal

The first time my friend desecrated Juhu’s pristine footpaths with his vile aerosol can, I was overwhelmed at the prospect of finally getting to live out my childhood fantasy of being a graffiti vandal, like the ones I’d read about in Europe.

Jackie Thakkar July 14, 2016