culture

Artless in India

It’s easier to understand time when so much of it seems to stagnate, churn, curdle, and recycle in front of you.

Staccato on the Streets

Perhaps, this summer is going to be one of self-re-discovery. Perhaps, I could love the city after all.

Let’s Slutwalk

Women are heading countries and scaling Mt. Everest, but apparently they still can’t decide what to wear.

Scheherazade’s 1001 Arabian Nightmares

Once upon a time, in a book rife with lies, Princess Scheherazade spent one thousand and one nights in bed with Prince Shahriyar… speaking.

Native Alternative

‘Culture’ is a word flippantly used by many of us without ever assessing the impact of such a loaded word.

Good Indian Girls Don’t

A not-so-samajdar-beti decides to take a year off from academia, fly off to the city of her birth, and start working on her first novel.

The Foreign Hostess Files

Ukrainian dancers and Russian models aren’t new to Bombay, but there is a new breed of foreign girl in today’s Mumbai.

Of Weddings and Funerals

April 29, 2011: A day engraved in history.

Days of Being Wild

In my country, summer is the season when possibility often trumps over probability.

The Other: Part Two

Women have inspired most great works of art, thus becoming the muse, the very core of the history of art borne out of great men.

Sustaining Hope

An exclusive interview with Aishwarya Natarajan, the first woman entrepreneur to win the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Music Award.

Pleasantly Plump

There’s no space on screen for even an extra inch of flesh. Or, for that matter, in T.V. shows, advertisements, billboards, music videos, or even in our own heads.