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Reaching For the Stars: How Koffee With Karan Got us Closer to Bollywood

Almost 14 years ago, writer-director-producer, Karan Johar did the unthinkable: He brought our favourite Bollywood stars from the big screen, straight into our living rooms. Rarely have our stars been as relatable as they have been on Koffee With Karan.

Arré Bench May 11, 2016

POV

The Longest Coming-Out Party Ever

KJo, sweetheart, maker of fantastic movies and manipulator of NRI nostalgia, please stop. We know you’re gay.

Nimisha Misra May 11, 2016

Pop Culture

Kangana, The Puppet And The Puppeteer Of Her Show

Simran is an ode to Kangana Ranaut’s feminist image. It plays out self-consciously across our movie screens, with an eye to celebrate her quirky, self-made, badass, victim-y image, even when it is at odds with the plot.

Poulomi Das May 5, 2016

Columns

Rearview: Hardik Pandya, Rahul Gandhi, & Bipin Rawat are Just Shades on the Pantone Card of Misogyny

Is there really much of a difference between the comments made by Bipin Rawat, Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, and Hardik Pandya? At this point they just seem like hues on the Pantone shade card of sexism and ingrained patriarchy.

Karanjeet Kaur May 1, 2016

Sports

What If Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman Appeared on Koffee With Karan

Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul’s crass comments on Koffee with Karan has left the cricketing community red-faced. The BCCI would have avoided the headache if cricket’s real gentlemen Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman had to face Karan Johar’s bouncers.

Umaima Saeed April 28, 2016

People

Bollywood’s Mr Brightside

Ranveer Singh has played the self-aware clown in Bollywood’s self-aware circus. This reckless unpredictability has defined his career.

Parthshri Arora April 24, 2016

POV

Hardik Pandya Might Become a Better Celebrity, But it’ll Take More than Our Outrage to Change Him

Men like Hardik Pandya are simply by-products of decades of patriarchy that has always seen women as somebody’s property – not somebody. And they will continue to air their dirty mindsets in private even after their public censuring.

Purba Ray April 23, 2016

Sports

The Top Three Reasons to Look Forward to India-New Zealand T20s (If You’re an Indian Fan)

Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma or Jasprit Bumrah-Mohammed Shami, who will be India’s Sakht Jodi in the T20 series against New Zealand?

Arré Bench April 22, 2016

Bollywood

Abhishek Bachchan Does Not Deserve the Trolls, But He Doesn’t Deserve Multiple Comebacks Either

Abhishek Bachchan does not deserve the hate he gets, but he also does not deserve multiple “second chances”. He is charming and has the gift of the gab, but he is not an efficient actor. It’s time Bollywood stops celebrating his many comebacks.

Jackie Thakkar April 20, 2016

Pop Culture

Koffee With Karan: Hardik Pandya Isn’t a “Brat”, He is an Outright Misogynist

There’s no denying that the old relationship between cricket and courteousness had become archaic. But after the latest Koffee with Karan episode, which featured Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul on the couch, it might have finally died for good.

Kahini Iyer April 7, 2016