Posted inSports
Football Shootball Hai Rabba
The FIFA World Cup is upon us and I fear the worst. During the last World Cup, we braced ourselves for “expert comments” from John Abraham. This time it’s going to be Anupam Kher, isn’t it?
Posted inPop Culture
I’d Be a Homophobe Had It Not Been For Harry
Potter fan fiction opened a chamber of secrets for me. It helped me make my way through the complex corridors of sexuality and appreciate individual freedom.
Posted inDisArré
The Patna Papers
Weedward & Bongstein return with an explosive report from ground zero of Bihar’s examination controversy.
Posted inPOV
The Great Spaghetti Eastern of Bihar
Ruby Rai is all that is wrong with Bihar. But Ruby Rai may just become all that will be right with the state.
Posted inGender
The Sach Behind Swachh
As the NDA completes two years in power, Narendra Modi’s pet project, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, continues to transform the lives of women in India’s remotest villages.
Posted inPeople
The Mother of 68
Over the last two decades, Sulbha Surve has lovingly fostered infants and toddlers before they found their way to forever homes.
Posted inLove and Sex
How The Middle-Class Makes Love
Over 9.5 million humping and heaving bodies officially live in one-room homes with paper-thin walls, and sniggering aunties. This makes sex pretty awkward to say the least.
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The Man Who Always Gets the Eid Dates Right
Pakshas and pournimas are its mainstays. But Kalnirnay, the world’s best-selling calendar-cum-almanac, has a secular take on it.
Posted inPop Culture
The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments: Margaret Atwood’s Cautionary Story for Women Across the Ages
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.
Posted inEarth
What If Glaciers Melted?
Experts have been sounding warnings about glaciers melting at an accelerated rate for decades now. Kerala's disastrous floods prove how destructive a watery disaster can be. What should we expect in case of a glacial meltdown?