May 09 2024
A few weeks ago, I chanced upon a Twitter thread, stitching together a sociological story on the Indian Male. It began with: “Why do most Indian men still live with their parents?” A global debate ensued, some insisting it’s a […]
They are young, they are at the prime of their lives, their careers are flourishing, their personal life is great…so why are they depressed? Most 30-somethings, or young adults, have been complaining of an unsettling weariness that’s been weighing them […]
There was a movie made in the 1950s called The Blob, which went on to acquire a cult status (it was also remade later, in 1988) in the horror genre. The flick’s all about an alien amoeboid entity that crash […]
The dirty picture is playing on Indian TV news for weeks. Bollywood is the latest big bad villain for the nation that is regularly served easy targets by the government and TV anchors to vent its outrage on. On the […]
“My passport is bored AF”“Can’t wait to walk down the (airplane) aisle again”“Can we skip to the part where I can travel again?”Yeah, we’ve all seen (and posted) the cheeky rants and statuses that constantly remind us how much we […]
The first time I got “acquainted” with Sunil Gavaskar was about four decades ago. I was in Class 3 or 4, and one of my classmates declared (during tiffin-time) she had “secretly” gotten married to “Sunny”: she took a photo […]
Coronavirus is the biggest crisis that the world has seen in generations. A virus like no other. It has left the world flat. 10 months since the first infection and the world is still nowhere close to defeat it. As […]
The Social Dilemma: Resist the occupation of the human mind Does Social Media do more harm than good? Has the technology started to hurt more than it helps? These are the most important and raging debates of our times. A […]
The dream factory that produces the largest number of celluloid fantasies (per annum) in the world is giving me nightmares these days. I try hard, very hard, to stay clear of all news related to Bollywood these days, in the […]
