In India, every day presents a new diversion, a new amusement. This week, we discovered the Kauravas were “test-tube babies” in a giant leap backward for science, and Kerala’s “Women’s Wall” protest against the violence at Sabarimala, showed us how to do solidarity.
Read MoreThe rage-fuelled few weeks of India’s #MeToo moment, are the cathartic blowing of the lid of collective pent-up aggression. Now that we’ve examined male behaviour across the spectrum of awfulness, where do we go from here?
Read MoreThe battle over Karunanidhi's burial at Chennai's Marina Beach unfolded in a tense few hours at the Madras High Court. Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi’s final farewells, symphonised by their followers and the state, will now become part of their personal mythology.
Read MoreOur wars now unfold on a public stage. More than thirty years ago, surgical strikes were business as usual. After the 2016 strike, Colonel Abir Choudhuri recalled a gripping operation in Myanmar.
Read MoreWhile trekking in Ladakh, I find myself buried waist-deep in debris. This is it, I tell myself. This is how I’ll go out, amid the oversold beauty of this high-altitude desert, as a slight disappointment to my mother and no book contract. I leave behind a flimsy legacy of FabIndia kurtas and Nicobar dresses.
Read MoreGreek mythology is full of lusty satyrs and centaurs that sleep with goddesses. Hokusai's “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” is considered an early progenitor of tentacle porn. And The Shape of Water is a story, lush with adult desires, about outsiders. Why are we so fascinated by beasts and monsters?
Read MoreMen like Shutu from A Death in the Gunj are all around us, but rarely do we see their internal struggles on screen. Where are the sensitive heroes, who suffer for feeling too much?
Read MoreTwo kinds of spectres slip in and out of Phillauri’s frames. There’s the one played by Anushka Sharma. And then there is the ghost that has plagued women’s writing for centuries.
Read MoreDiljit Dosanjh is an unlikely hero for Bollywood. As Soorma releases today, I can’t remember the last time someone with such son-of-the-soil appeal made it as a leading man in a mainstream film.
Read MoreYogi Adityanath is an extreme, hyperbolic endpoint of the world’s love affair with rabble-rousers and strongmen. What else explains the popularity of Duterte and the Donald?
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