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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.
1 day ago3 min read
Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'
By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?
Jun 111 min read
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
May 248 min read
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
May 232 min read
It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…
By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.
May 163 min read
The Cockroach Controversy: Don't Blame Jobless Journos, says Delhi Union of Journalists
Many competent journalists have been forced out of the system. Are they cockroaches?
May 163 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.
May 93 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
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
Apr 177 min read
Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons
By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.
Apr 165 min read
STOP these FORCED marriages
Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion.
degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.
Apr 155 min read
From Bengal, despair... and the optimism of resistance
By Sreela Das Gupta. A poem on hope amidst all-round angst and anger in Bengal.
Apr 101 min read
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Apr 78 min read
The Potato Eaters, and the Sunflowers are not blooming
By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.
Apr 53 min read
Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross
By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.
Apr 46 min read
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
Apr 28 min read
“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.
Mar 299 min read
Stupid. Honestly stupid. Here comes the Clown-Artist
By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.
Mar 256 min read
An Oxymoron. Pure Evil.
By Aditya Nigam. Iran is giving them a run for their money.
Mar 241 min read
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