culture

Comic Conned

A visual walk-through of India’s first ever comics convention, the First Annual Indian Comic Con, held at Dilli Haat earlier this year.

The Other: Part One

Gender differentiation has played a significant role in hailing masculine art as ‘great’ or ‘serious’ and reducing so-called feminine art as the ‘other’.

Love and Longing in the Sixties

A petition may be a poem, and a poem may be a petition, but neither a poem nor a petition is the revolution.

Five Seconds of Fame

Welcome to a rage called MTV Roadies. Suffering has never been made so sweet.

Why I Love Delhi

Delhi’s oldness is alternative to, independent of, but equally conscious and respectful of the new.

Marriage Aaj Kal

Where do women like us expect to find our men? And where and when exactly do these men of today expect to find their women?

Book Review: Reflected in Water

This part-travelogue, part-reverie helps reinvent Goa, a place that is largely misunderstood.

Musings on Money

Does a person’s salary determine their value, their importance, their ability to contribute, to give and take from life?

Unsocial Networking

Basic rules of social conduct are fast fading into oblivion as a new kind of social tradition evolves.

The Zara Zara/Touch Me Dialectic

Katrina Kaif might swivel her hips as sexily and suggestively as she wishes to, but the notion of the ideal Indian woman hasn’t changed much.

Reality Bites

Fairy tales have often been accused of being hegemonic and advocating the idea of male superiority.