culture

When Feeling Blue Is Patriotic

Unified by our indelible love for cricket, we are drenched in victory, thanks to our Boys in Blue.

Hyphenated

Labels are not easy to live with, especially hyphenated labels. There is a sense of disorientation when it comes to choosing one side or the other.

Images and Words

The First Annual Indian Comic Con sufficed as a commendable exhibit of talent and a fair of international stature for comic lovers.

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?