Features

Native Alternative

‘Culture’ is a word flippantly used by many of us without ever assessing the impact of such a loaded word.

The Vicarious Lover

Ralph Fiennes seems most at home when involved in a delicate balancing act between various facets of his personality.

Too Many Steps Make My Knees Hurt

I am at the stage in life where everything seems as black and white as Jim Jarmusch’s face.

Perfectly Flawed

Perfect is a word most people are afraid to use because of its, well, ‘perfect’ connotations.

The Beer Olympics 2011

A blow-by-blow account of the first ever Beer Olympics held at the Doolally Beers micro brewery in Pune this year.

Good Indian Girls Don’t

A not-so-samajdar-beti decides to take a year off from academia, fly off to the city of her birth, and start working on her first novel.

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice?

Madhuri Banerjee, author of bestselling novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas spoke to us about her book, love, lust, and what losing one’s virginity might mean to people in India.

The Foreign Hostess Files

Ukrainian dancers and Russian models aren’t new to Bombay, but there is a new breed of foreign girl in today’s Mumbai.

Of Weddings and Funerals

April 29, 2011: A day engraved in history.

Testing the Waters

A tiny haven in Karnataka for those weary of the constant activity at Goa, Gokarna is about five hours away and a world apart.

Days of Being Wild

In my country, summer is the season when possibility often trumps over probability.

Cape and Cowl

An exploration of the various graphic novels from which the story lines and characters were developed for Christopher Nolan’s remarkable Batman series.