Sushant Singh Rajput’s brother-in-law has launched “Nepometer” to rate movies based on whether the cast and crew are related to film families. Sadak 2 was found to be “98 per cent nepotistic”.

After her Twitter account was suspended yet again, actress-turned-right-wing mouthpiece Payal Rohatgi claimed that her attempts to “share facts” have been thwarted by “liberals”. Irony much?

An Ahmedabad police officer has been caught demanding a hefty bribe of Rs 35 lakh from a rape-accused businessman in exchange for dropping charges against him. The officer, Shweta Jadeja, was a sub-inspector in charge of the Ahmedabad-West Mahila police station.

Adopting a child in India is a process riddled with bureaucracy, tough questions, and long delays, often for the right reasons. But, as we found out, the red tape is the least worrisome part of adopting. We were not prepared for the resistance we faced from our family.

Actor Priyanka Chopra has been on the receiving end of a lot of flak in the last few years — with everything from her views to her Hollywood accent. But the actor is in no mood to look back. Chopra has signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Amazon studios and is set to bring more desi representation to audiences abroad.

There is so much information out there on the female orgasm, it’s overwhelming. Still three-quarters of the world’s women seem to be somehow stranded on an orgasmless island. Men, it’s time for you to start taking notes...

TikTok enabled millions of Indians to become the superstars of their own universes, and acquire a massive following all their own. Indians, who hitherto had no way to do that on “refined” social networks. In a sense, these content creators were like rising Karnas, the proverbial disowned brother of the epic Mahabharata.

I tried to be rational when I found out that my father was having an affair. But I was only drawing more lines for him to toe, for his halo to remain untarnished.

Lawyers Dr Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, the power couple at the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality, are reportedly set to take the next step with “The Marriage Project”, which will work toward legalising same-sex marriages in the country.

A case filed in America shows that caste-based discrimination isn’t a problem unique to workplaces in India. The department of fair employment and housing in California sued the tech company Cisco for “outing” the complainant as a Dalit, forcing him to “receive less pay, fewer opportunities”.

During the lockdown, away from my partner, I finally gave in and watched the Kim Kardashian sex tape. That opened the floodgates. Self-pleasuring was suddenly all-consuming; it was all I could think about. But I am not the only one who has been super horny during this pandemic – the whole world is.

“Even I have been a victim of nepotism but nobody speaks of that,” says Saif Ali Khan, son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketing legend Tiger Pataudi. The irony is not lost on anyone.

In Uttar Pradesh, a police officer was masturbating in front of the women who were at the station to file a complaint. An FIR has been lodged against him, but he is now absconding.

In Gujarat, Marwari women lead dual lives. They fast with their mothers-in-law and sip mojitos with their friends.

In Sindhi households, everything is veiled. It starts at the heart of the home – the kitchen. The refrigerator handle dare not stand in nudity. The mixer, when not in use, stands gracefully under a crocheted hood. Twenty five years ago, I used to mock this great Sindhi cover-up. Today, I’m the one doing the covering.

A wedding in Bihar has now turned into a tragic affair and is now being labelled a super-spreader. The groom died a couple of days after the ceremony and 111 have tested positive for the coronavirus.

In the wake of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the debate around nepotism in Bollywood has intensified. Now, according to reports, director Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan, may not return for another season after being labelled both “controversial” and “nepotistic”.

The boundaries between home and work have been permanently blurred by work from home. The concept of “working hours” has dissolved. So employees are expected to answer calls any time of the day, even on a Sunday evening. The desire to tune out from work has now become completely alien.

AirAsia India was served a show-cause notice by the DGCA in response to allegations about safety violations at the airline raised by one of their pilots, Gaurav Taneja. The fired pilot had alleged that the airline did not adhere to coronavirus safety protocols and recommended a dangerous landing procedure to save fuel.

While you and I were making memes on “how much we miss chaat” during the pandemic, a genius went ahead and invented a machine that dispenses pani puri – like an ATM machine gives out notes. A hero we don’t deserve but desperately need.

A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported from China’s Inner Mongolia. Local authorities say there’s a risk of the epidemic spreading in the region.

Sub-inspectors Balakrishnan and Raghuganesh, suspended over the custodial deaths of Jayaraj and Bennicks, were no strangers to police brutality. Several complaints had been lodged against them over the years. If any of those complaints had been taken seriously, maybe Jayaraj and Bennicks would be alive today.

In a judgment that sounds like it was delivered in the 1800s, the Gauhati High Court said that a woman’s refusal to wear sindoor, sakha signals her unwillingness to accept marriage.

Like many millennials of my generation, I once idolised Kareena Kapoor as Poo in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... But I have done a lot of growing-up since then.

TikTok is not merely an app, it’s an experience. It’s an avenue to a different world, a different India that has never been able to create content before the app. So who does the TikTok ban really affect?

As Indian girls, we are raised with the strict instruction that our bras should not be hung out to dry like the rest of the dirty linen we wash in public. Perhaps the reason that the bra has come to be a trigger garment is not because men can’t deal with it, but because with all our hiding we haven’t really given them a chance to.

Alia Bhatt and Hrithik Roshan will have voting rights at the Academy Awards to be held in April 2021 if they accept the invite. The dreaded “N-word” in Bollywood comes to mind.

How many Indian men can so lightly embody the many contradictions of Ranveer Singh? In our determinedly binary society, his love of lehengas on anyone else might have garnered epithets of “sissy” or “hijra”. But then, as his infamous t-shirt once declared, Ranveer always makes one thing abundantly clear: he’s got no fucks to give.

A year into our arranged match, my husband and I decided to get into an open relationship. It’s done wonders for our marriage.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about already, now exorbitant electricity bills are causing Mumbaikars to panic. Even celebrities like Taapsee Pannu, Dino Morea, and Renuka Sahane are complaining.