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A Tomb of One’s Own: Why It is Important for Indian Women to Own Public Spaces

Women need public spaces – not just to occupy thoroughfare but even as private spaces. A space for quiet reflection, for celebration, for contemplation, for cooling down from a fight. Public spaces can help shape our most private selves. Just ask my mother.

Swati Bhattacharya May 10, 2016

Sports

The Passion of Wrestlemania: Why MMA Will Never Beat Pro-Wrestling

MMA fans thumb their noses at WWE, skipping its dramatic storytelling for the UFC’s methodical brutality. Realism is important to them… so I fail to understand how they think falling off a 20-foot ladder hurts less because it was pre-planned.

Dushyant Shekhawat May 9, 2016

POV

Why I Chose To Break Up With the Bra

Twelve years after I was first introduced to the bra, I decided to break up with it. It wasn’t a decision borne out of rebellion or one to support a socio-political movement. Some of us just like going braless.

Vaishnavi May 3, 2016

Love and Sex

Long-Distance Love in Mumbai: Romeo in Colaba, Juliet in Andheri

A couple with one partner in Mumbai and the other in Pune, can’t claim to be in a long-distance relationship. But a couple between Andheri and Colaba can. In the time that it takes to get from one end of the city to another, you could finish binge-watching End of the F***ing World.

Abhilasha Sinha April 29, 2016

Earth

Delhi vs Mumbai: Mere Paas Ped Hain

Whichever way you lean in the age-old debate of Delhi vs Mumbai, you have to admit the capital holds the edge in one area. Delhi HC’s order saving 16,500 trees from being chopped is a far cry from axe-happy Mumbai’s approach of felling 5,000 trees for Metro-3.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 25, 2016

Bollywood

Enough With the Ms Braganzas & Mr Iyers. Where are the Biharis in Bollywood?

Bollywood has its share of Kaizads, Miss Braganzas, and Mr Iyers. But I haven’t found a single Mr Jha who chews paan more frequently than he curses the bourgeoisie in theth Bhojpuri.

Aastha Anupriya April 25, 2016

Pop Culture

How Do You Measure the Success of Sacred Games? By a Token FIR for “Hurting Sentiments”

A Delhi-based politician has filed an FIR against Anurag Kashyap for offending religious sentiments, barely a week after the release of the new season of the Netflix series. Makes sense, shows like Sacred Games, are after all, the number one threat to religion since “scientists” officially became a thing.

#VALUE! April 23, 2016

Pop Culture

What Carrie Bradshaw Did to a Punjabi Boy

For a pre-pubescent West Delhi boy, Sex and The City mainstreamed some revolutionary ideas. But most of all, I understood that not only do women talk sex, but enjoy it too.

Parthshri Arora April 22, 2016

POV

Lahe Lahe Land and the Art of Laziness

People in Assam believe in lingering. We believe in slothful, listless days. Even months. Safe to say, years.

Priyanjana Roy April 19, 2016

People

Humans of Diwali Taash Party

Diwali: That time of the year where maniacal exhibitionism is injected with steroids. Meet the Goodwill Hunter and the Chakna Eater, stock features of the dick-measuring contest also known as the taash party.

Parthshri Arora April 18, 2016