Features

Butthead Metalheads

A first-person account of the chaos and mismanagement that overtook the F1 Rocks Metallica concert.

Wife Sharing and Other Stories

Our friendly religious epic, the Mahabharata, is replete with cases of charitable Brahmins impregnating obedient queens in order to oblige heirless kingdoms.

Et tu, Brute?

Does Marcus Brutus really deserve to carry the burden of this stigma?

A Life in Transit

We have all experienced, condemned, and practised road rage. Now meet its dysfunctional spouse, traffic lag.

Don’t Cross Your Lakshman Rekha

The ambiguous Lakshman rekha from the Ramayana symbolises the many boundaries imposed upon female sexuality while growing up.

U-bends: Ujeli

Ten minutes later we were out cold, long before we realised that the rushing lullaby outside our windows was the river flowing just feet away.

Technologic

How alert are we? How agile are our senses? Is our reflex going to be outsourced? Are you going to tell me it can be?

Village Vignettes: Jogilal Meena’s Mittens

An attempt to piece together the story of water availability in rural Rajasthan and what farmers are doing to adapt to their changing environment.

Cinephilia: Rear Window

On why Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated Rear Window is not just a thriller.

A Day of Shakespeare in the Park

Helena and Bertram proclaimed their love for one another under a sky filled with fireflies, over a lake filled with dreams.

Alive for a Day

Neil Gaiman’s Death: The High Cost of Living makes you realise how Death is kind, compassionate, loyal, and brave.

Playing a Losing Game

Story books can glorify immolation in the name of love, but what they don’t tell you is that love kills in softer ways.