The indoor garden has become the bean bag of today – every millennial home has one. We’re taking the concrete jungle, and reclaiming it for #MotherNature.

Amazon Prime’s Mirzapur is a frothy mix of hate, aggression, and masochism. The many lynchings of Mirzapur, its acute objectification of women, and violence seems uncomfortably close. It feels oddly like present-day India, rotten yet pure.

A bachelor party in India is all about daaru, eating 10 kilos of namkeen and five kilos of chicken tikka, and dancing to “Hawa Hawa” in your vests. And strippers? They are the unicorns of Indian bachelor parties: Fun to talk about, but who can really claim they’ve ever seen one?

Fifteen years ago, Britney Spears made a frothy pop song about a toxic relationship. Today, in the era of #MeToo, the word has a very different connotation. It was so much in vogue over the last year that Oxford English Dictionary anointed it 2018’s Word of the Year.

The concept of Radical Honesty isn’t just about telling the truth – you have to commit to voicing every stupid, bitchy, relationship-ending, career-destroying thought that tumbles through your head. I started my experiment with absolute truth-telling and landed in my own private hell.

Alyque Padamsee donned many hats: Actor, theatre director, ad-man. In the Mad Men-like world of Indian advertising in the ’80s and ’90s, Padamsee was the masala version of Don Draper. The man who gave us the “Liril girl” was nothing short of a god in advertising.

My mom, like many Indian mothers, suffers from “Yeh toh main ghar pe bana sakti hoon” syndrome: An attitude of outright rejection and dismissiveness rooted in desi pride. Burger is no better than vada pav, and French fries are just homemade finger chips.

In a recent editorial, the Shiv Sena called the BJP a “mad murderer,” and the UP CM Yogi Adityanath a “hypocrite,” but this still didn’t make national news. Compare this to Bal Thackeray, whose mere presence kept the Shiv Sena in the spotlight all the time.

Netflix denied reports of self-censorship, but this may be our reality sooner than we think. Just like the free press, the free internet is also under threat. And this might deprive us of access to information and entertainment that our governments don’t want us seeing.

Forget Iulia Vantur, Warina Hussain, and bechara Aamir Khan. The latest firangi sensation in Bollywood is, without a doubt, Lake Como – the third glamorous diva at the Deepika-Ranveer wedding. And where Bollywood goes, the selfie-taking desi tourist follows.