aggression Archives

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Virat Kohli’s Aggression is Essential to Who He Is

Virat Kohli is not the best batsman in the world, across formats, despite his aggression and combativeness, he is the best because of it. Like all elite sportsmen and sportswomen at the very top, Virat Kohli hates to lose.

Hardik Rajgor May 21, 2016

Pop Culture

What Mirzapur Gets Right About India’s Long Relationship With Violence

Amazon Prime’s Mirzapur is a frothy mix of hate, aggression, and masochism. The many lynchings of Mirzapur, its acute objectification of women, and violence seems uncomfortably close. It feels oddly like present-day India, rotten yet pure.

Manik Sharma May 5, 2016

POV

“Tu Bahar Mil”: Ashish Pandey’s Gun-Waving is Utterly Unsurprising for Delhi, India’s Rage Capital

For a Dilli boy, there was nothing shocking about a politician’s son waving a pistol outside the lobby of a posh hotel. Rather, I was filled with a weird sense of nostalgia, as this incident reminded me of all the Ashish Pandeys I’ve grown up with in my hometown.

Aakash Ahuja April 18, 2016