culture

Cocktail: Deepika Padukone

Bollywood’s Bad Girl Problem

In Bollywood, bad girls may have started to have their share of fun, but it’s still the good girls who get rewarded.

Learning to drive

I Drive

I am learning to drive. I am grasping terror in my hands and tossing it aside.

Kulture Shop

Dial ‘K’ for Kulture

Kulture Shop is a new Mumbai-based initiative that aims to change the way people look at art and design in modern India.

Biodiesel

Gasoline Will Be Free

Political will is one thing, social will another, but economics is what really drives the system, isn’t it?

Mapping Gender: Addressing Issues of Gender, Sexuality, and Politics Through Art

Carefully curated by M.Phil. students at Jahawaharlal Nehru University, this exhibition plans to use a variety of mediums to explore gender-related issues. Details inside.

Mihir Vatsa

A Town Called Hazaribagh

An exclusive interview with Mihir Vatsa, winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize for 2013, about poetry and growing up in Jharkhand.