Features

Soak Up the Sun

What to do and what you can’t do without at the fifth edition of the Sunburn festival.

Waiting for the Sun

We talk to festival-goers—everyone from first-timers to excited second-time explorers, as well as seasoned regulars—about their Sunburn experience.

State of Trance

Electronic dance music is (thankfully) no more just a bastion of the West. Here are some established names as well as some upcoming artists from India who will be a part of Sunburn 2011.

House on Fire

We take a look at some of the international artists scheduled to perform at Sunburn 2011 that you can’t afford to pass up.

The Best Music of 2011

Here are 10 very good reasons why you shouldn’t be jaded with music just yet.

When the Sun Goes Down

We kick off our five-day countdown to the fifth edition of Sunburn—the biggest electronic dance music festival in Asia. Here’s what you can expect from Sunburn 2011.

No Such Thing as First Class

A few rules that might save you some time and money when you’re flying, and ensure that you don’t miss the last five minutes of the in-flight movie.

Parvati Trails

When the Himachali valley of Tosh parties, all the surrounding mountains party with it.

Cinephilia: No Orchids for Miss Blandish

This isn’t the kind of bad film that has become everyone’s punching bag over time. Far more humiliatingly, it has just been ignored.

U-bends: Nachiketa

What must have begun as golden pinpricks had turned into monstrous orange tongues, cutting down giant trees like they were brittle winter twigs.

Lucky Cheng’s

I’ll say it again: Drag Queen Cabaret Bar. Sizzle!

Live and Loud

The minds behind the Live from the Console initiative in Bombay speak to us about how they are encouraging fresh independent artists from around the country.