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In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic,...
In 1989, when people 'defected' to vote the Indian National Congress government out, leading to a minority National Front government, there were loud...
Vinay Pathak in Nothing Like Lear Courtesy: Unmask Studio Vinay Pathak wakes up to bad news one day. Out of habit, as he opens the newspaper to...
In the Oppenheimer universe, the US is right even when the US is wrong.
Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...
Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...
While it may still be some time before Indian men go all Timothée Chalamet in donning Cartier necklaces while stepping out, luxury jewellery brands...
Are there any mitigating circumstances for the actions of the collaborators of a murderous regime? In the graveyards of empires, the tombstones of...
We never see 'Maan-ji' on stage, but the fact of her influence on Sahir Ludhianvi's life and poetry is lost on nobody in the audience. When the mother...
Why are we upset at Poonam Pandey pulling off her death stunt to raise awareness for cervical cancer? We, the regular individuals, who thrive on the...
Saudi Arabia is warming up to the notions of choice and AlUla can be called its social laboratory
It's done. The wheel of time willed it. A Ram temple in Ayodhya is firmly in place now. It tells us the tale of how empires and civilisations rise and...
Becoming a global soul involves privilege, planning, providence, and Pico Iyer’s brand of curiosity.
I want Ram Rajya in Delhi. This utopian state of my dreams that has eluded Indians for several millennia will have its Lakshman-Rekha to define spaces...
Why should Nikki Haley not be the next President of the United States?
I am compelled to write this essay in a deeply subjective tone and tenor. Only because an honourable minister chose to share her "personal views" as a...
Even after two terms in power, with an exceptional majority, the Bharatiya Janata Party hasn't shed its underdog mentality. They still like to go for...
In one of the most poignant scenes of celebrated Hindi dramatist Mohan Rakesh's iconic play, Aadhe Adhure, Savitri recalls being brutalised by her...
I may or may not have unleashed the drunk sailor in me on Sunday. I'm not proud of it but blame it on my accident of birth. I'm an Indian and I cannot...
Jews know the pain of losing a home. Jews know what it is like to never be able to return to one
"Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." While it is unclear whether the author and enfant terrible of Victorian-era London, Oscar...
Chandler of Friends, like Matthew Perry, turned vulnerability into virtue. Emotional detachment, we learned from him, is an impoverished state of...
Henry with Jai Anand Dehadrai and Mahua Moitra There are times when one yearns for time travel. Fervently wishing for the time machine - in any of its...
Indian fashion needs to cut the Gordian knot of Bollywood to become a global force to reckon with. Pick any magazine or newspaper or scroll through...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict perpetuates stereotypes and harms women
"matra-sparshas tu kaunteya shitoshna-sukha-duhkha-dahagamapayino nityas tans-titikshasva bharata" The Bhagavad Gita offers the government of India...
One thing that India, or I.N.D.I.A, cannot fault - strictly objectively speaking - Prime Minister Narendra Modi for is his sartorial sense....
People like Ramaswamy have the ability to sow seeds of self-doubt in those who don’t strictly live by a party constitution.