Posted inVice
The Electric Kool-Aid Nutmeg Test
Internet forums are rife with references to the hallucinogenic muscle relaxant in nutmeg. Since it involved a psychedelic experience, I plunged right in.
Posted inPop Culture
Sacred Games: Why You Don’t Mess With the Marathi Tai
We can continue to criticise the portrayal of women as mere pawns in the sacred games of men. But take a minute to look beyond the obvious. The women in the Netflix series aren’t mere cheerleaders – they’re controllers in their own right.
Posted inCulture
All Souls’ Day: Forget Halloween, This is the Real After-Party with the Dead
All Souls’ Day is pretty fun. Given the fact that the cemetery stayed open late on All Souls’ Day, as teenagers we’d take advantage of the darkness to visit graves and gather cigarettes and alcohol left behind by families for their late relatives. We’d find the occasional piece of fried fish left unsullied by the birds and have ourselves a good ol’ fashioned party.
Posted inPop Culture
How To Understand Consent Through Anu Malik’s “Do Me a Favour, Let’s Play Holi!”
Future civilisations will think of the original inhabitants of Earth as a primitive race, which played a game called Holi with each other, but not before respectfully asking for consent. Until they find news reports of the accusations against Anu Malik, at least.
Posted inPop Culture
Twenty Years of Twist Endings with M Night Shyamalan
About 20 years ago, M Night Shyamalan’s feature film debut, The Sixth Sense, earned him serious Hollywood cred as an auteur – cred that he lost after the debacle of films like The Lady in the Water and The Last Airbender. But his critics forget that everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Nolan have had slumps.
Posted inGrub
The Perfect Winter Soup is Here
My grandmom’s Goan-style chicken, sweet corn, and vegetable soup is all you need in the winter.
Posted inPop Culture
How Iron Man, Spiderman, Hulk, and Other Marvel-lous Characters Mourn Stan Lee
Earth’s mightiest heroes wore black today, to mourn the passing of Stan Lee. No bright reds, greens, or yellows, for the man who had so lovingly coloured them for all these years, lies buried, surrounded by the ones he brought to life.
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Why Bigg Boss Marathi Reminds Me of My Life in a Chawl
Bigg Boss Marathi reminds me of my life in a chawl – a bunch of Maharashtrians stuffed in one single dwelling with a common bathroom and kitchen. Host Mahesh Manjrekar is like the Ray-Byan-wearing kaka from another shakha and Usha Nadkarni is the judgemental aai of the House.
Posted inBollywood
Mumbai Gangster Movies Ka King Kaun? Satya
Long before RGV Ki Aag and Guns and Thighs, Ram Gopal Varma gave us a masterful Mumbai gangster movie like Satya. Crime films need characters, not caricatures – they need real grime, not artistically recreated versions of it. They don’t make films like Satya anymore.
Posted inPeople
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Rave Party
After attending prayer meetings where people go into epileptic tizzies, I’ve come to the conclusion that a religious gathering is nothing more than a rave party for the faithful.