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The Devil Wears Prada 2
By Nadia Ahmad. The original earned its glamour. This one is renting it
2 days ago6 min read


Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.
2 days ago5 min read


‘I meet my god through my camera,’ Raghu Rai said
By Suresh Nautiyal. Tribute to two legends, Mark Tully and Raghu Rai, at the Press Club of India, Delhi.
3 days ago3 min read


Mirror Mirror tell me: Am I the Most Perfect One?
By Diksha Kashyap. We live in a world where imperfections are edited out. Perfect lives, grades, beauty, happiness.
3 days ago3 min read


Kerala’s quest for linguistic identity
By Shubham Arya. Why Keralam is on the dot.
3 days ago2 min read


The River that Refuses to be Silent
By Suresh Nautiyal.
What replaces a river that is also memory?
3 days ago4 min read


Listen Serena, I do not travel… I arrive…through you
By Suresh Nautiyal. It is not distance… but awareness… that carries me to you
4 days ago1 min read


More bad news for Mr Trump
By Seema Mustafa. Trump falls in a quagmire.
4 days ago1 min read


Worming
"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - Chinua Achebe By Aayushi Rana That is how they spelled it. The threatening notes , slipped under the door of a school for girls, placed in the corners of a hospital full of the sick and the dying, in 1896 Bombay. Warning. Spelt worming. The Native Society, anonymous, invisible, full of bile. That detail is from a novel, not from the two books under review here. But reading M
May 54 min read


“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
May 26 min read


India’s Fossil Delusion and Just Transition Opportunity
By Dr Vishvaja Sambath. West Asia Crisis: Let us ask the hard question: Why are we still subsidising the very vulnerabilities that are strangling us?
May 14 min read


Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
May 14 min read


Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
May 14 min read


Merry-making, a pliant media, an oily narrative, straight from His playbook
By NR Mohanty. The writing on the wall is clear: our so-called ‘legacy’ media is beyond salvation!
May 13 min read


Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Apr 307 min read


This Meme: Violent. Misogynist. Nationalist?
Condemn the misogynist and violent Meme against Mamata Banerjee.
Apr 292 min read


If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
Apr 269 min read


Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
Apr 266 min read


My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Apr 251 min read


Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
Apr 254 min read
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