In the distant future, when human doctors and engineers become obsolete, will stand-up comedy be the job parents want their kids to pursue?

With #OPPOA92020 you have power and performance in the palm of your hands. “Ab tumhare paas bhi 20 hour battery life hai”.

I went to a pretty decent engineering college in Kerala, and my batchmates are doing all sorts of things outside of engineering, from management to music, from content writing to software start-ups. For most engineers, the four years of college was just to figure out what they wanted to do in life.

Chandni is the quintessential male fantasy in motion; except with Yash Chopra behind the camera, that fantasy translates as adoration and appreciation, instead of overt sexualisation. Every shot feels like a gentle caress, like the gaze of an admirer or a devotee.

Dream Girl suffers from a visible Vicky Donor hangover and says nothing new in its greed to say a little bit of everything. But perhaps the biggest downside of Dream Girl is that it looks like the first sign of Ayushmann Khurrana being held prisoner by his own reputation.

Section 375 is a sneaky, smug, and ignorant proclamation of "Not All Men" that comes at the expense of the Me Too movement. It doesn't just argue that the system is corrupted to a point where justice is a foregone conclusion. But that women seek revenge by filing false rape charges and the system enables them.

If there was one person in the country whom you’d expect to be paying attention to all the “maths” regarding India’s economy, it would have been Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal. Apparently, the best way to deal with a slowing economy is to completely stop acknowledging all statistics and percentages related to it altogether.

Having a partner who shares your enthusiasm — in sickness, health, and food — is a big part of the appeal of being in a relationship. But the question of what to eat together is to couples what purgatory is to lost souls.

At its core, The Handmaid’s Tale is a primer in individual resistance, the battle between the indomitable spirit and the grinding wheels of subjugation. As Aunt Lydia tells Offred and the other Handmaids-in-training, any outrage becomes acceptable once you lose the will to fight back.

When our salary was delayed in May, it was brushed away as a temporary inconvenience. There was no official word from the management, but there were secret meetings and the big bosses paraded their lack of empathy. In August, we got a midnight mail which said this is the end.

As other phone companies scramble over each other to rip off the iPhone's latest design, Apple should go a step ahead and create sustainable phones. In an age where there’s increased awareness of climate change, surely following an eco-friendly trend will become as important as adding a screen notch.

After Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said millennials’ preference for Uber and Ola has contributed to the auto industry’s decline, it’s time the world sat up and took notice. Perhaps we do need to #BoycottMillennials, before they kill another valued facet of Indian society.

Eighteen years after the September 11 attacks, even as the spectre of terror fades from our day-to-day lives, its shadow is cast over our minds, a constant threat that, for all our vows of “never again”, seems impossible to check.

Three months ago, I met and spent time getting to know someone who spoke the same mother tongue as me. At first, it felt like discovering a whole new part of myself. But soon, the sameness started feeling suffocating. I felt like I knew him too well, too soon, and that his red flags could never have the luxury of just being flags.

With iPhone 11, we’re looking to bring you the same groundbreaking features Android phones had back in 2012, but with a neat Apple sticker on the back.

Buying a new car and then a house have been ultimate #lifegoals for our parents, but millennials prefer to rent. Our generation does not want to be tied down to anything, be it a treadmill or a trousseau. And the renting culture offers us that flexibility.

In 2019, twisting your homies’ nipples in public is a flagbearer of inappropriate behaviour. But in the hallways of my school back in 2001, a time when we boys lacked foresight and sensitivity, “pungis” were all about brotherhood.

From being used to heckle Opposition MPs in Parliament to providing the soundtrack to a mounting number of public lynchings, sayings like Jai Shri Ram that once provided us comfort and united us, now create fear and sow division.

As Anupriya Lakra is being held up as an inspiration to girls in Odisha and beyond, let’s not forget to honour her parents, too. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Lakra’s journey to breaking barriers as a pilot is the faith her parents had in her unorthodox decisions.

If you had a Venn diagram with two circles labelled “classy” and “massy”, the overlapping area would be marked “Adam Sandler”.

Fake news has become a scourge, publications are more beholden to advertisers than readers, and it’s more lucrative to cater to echo chambers than to actually inform and guide. The time has come to resume paying for news, irrespective of political leanings.

Who doesn’t want a teetotaller, non-smoker, six-feet-something hunk of a husband who would rather be in the gym at dawn than have a late night, plays geriatric games like rummy with you every night, and promptly goes to bed at 9, leaving you to write in peace?

Maverick, temperamental, eccentric, non-conformist, the permanent dissenter... There are lots of adjectives used for Ram Jethmalani. In my interactions with him, he was none of it. He was only a man who had utmost belief in himself and what he did.

My family traces its roots to Narayangunj, in present-day Bangladesh. And identity is that minefield that I am forced to negotiate every day. I am a part of “us” our government claims to protect today, there is no saying when I will find myself on the other side.

While the revisions to the Motor Vehicles Act are commendable, the new rules mention these things called “roads” and I’m not entirely sure I follow what that means. They wouldn’t happen to be referring to the small strips of land in between the dhobi guy on the left and the vada pav guy on the right, I hope.

I remember discovering several RD Burman melodies only because Asha Bhosle had remixed and repackaged them, creating versions that were trendier and in sync with the times. Burman Da hardly needed extra boost, but sometimes, nostalgia and quality aren’t enough to attract a new generation.

Despite some alarmist headlines, ISRO’s ambitious mission to the moon is no failure. “Only 5 per cent of the mission has been lost… the remaining 95 per cent is orbiting successfully,” an ISRO scientist said.

At a time when we are divided over politics in Kashmir and Assam, ravaged by floods, and crushed by the economy on a freefall, Chandrayaan 2 has ushered in a dash of positivity we so badly need.

Dear Indians, looks like we need to rework our boycotting strategy. What happened to everything we’ve wanted to ban in the past? I can still Snapchat myself popping by the kirana for a packet of Surf Excel while a Zomato guy delivers my order.

In his acceptance speech ahead of receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Ravish Kumar’s appeals to the citizenry’s sense of pride in their rights, despair at being conned, and frustration at being lied to repeatedly. It’s time to pay attention.