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Why I Don’t Believe In Piku’s Feminism
By Aditi Saraswat: Piku celebrates a woman. It celebrates her sense of independence: sexual, emotional or financial, in that order. Piku’s father Bhaskor opines, "marriage without purpose is a low...
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तनु वेड्स मनु रिटर्न्स: कंगना ‘तेरा स्वैगर लागे सैक्सी’
जावेद अनीस: भारतीयों के लिए सिनेमा मनोरंजन है, जिसके लिए उन्हें कम्प्रोमाइज़ भी करना पड़ता है। तभी तो [envoke_twitter_link]हमारी मनोरंजक फिल्मों में “अक्ल” का ध्यान नहीं रखा जाता[/envoke_twitter_link]...
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Is Delhi So Desperate For Development That Its Rich Heritage Is A Roadblock?
By Isaac Roque: "Dilli jo ik sheher tha aalam me intekhab rehte the muntakhib hi jahan rozgaar ke Jis ko falak ne loot ke veeran kar diya Hum rehne wale hain usi ujde dayar ke." (Delhi, that was a...
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“I Am A Porn Star, Ask Me Anything”
By Sanskriti Pandey: When a certain porn star Kimi Lixx’s son, offers to host his own ‘Ask Me Anything’ session on Reddit, you know things are about to get strange. When you discover that Kimi Lixx...
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Why I Think Kangana Ranaut’s Sexy Swagger Is A Must Watch!
By Pallavi Ghosh: ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ is one rare movie that reverses the traditional order of movies and their sequels. Usually the sequels tend to weaken the plot; are filled with painful...
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Dil Dosti Selfie: Friendship In Today’s World Needs A Reboot
By Sumrit Shahi: So there I was clubbing sober, last Saturday night, sipping on my Red Bull even as the world around me got wasted, one shot at a time. Bored out of my wits, I ended up doing what I...
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[Y]ral: Kangana And Irrfan Get Candid About Their Films, Acting, ‘100 Crore...
By Sanskriti Pandey: Two stalwarts of Indian cinema only had to sit across each other to effortlessly carry on an engaging tête-â- tête on 'Bollywood' - a word that, interestingly, both find...
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Because Body Diversity Is Something To Be Celebrated, Not Standardised!
By Shambhavi Saxena: Not all activities are tailored keeping different body types or bodies in mind – to illustrate, a certain activist outfit I have known did not think to create activities that...
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My Chinese #FoodHorrorStory: “You Can Eat It Or You Can Pet It”
By Yummraj: We invited you to share the best of your worst eating out experiences, here’s the answer to our call for a #foodhorrorstory. A sportswear marketer by profession, Yummraj identifies...
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What Sunny Leone’s Baffling Success Tells Us About Our Society
By Paromita Vohra: There’s a curiously distant feeling about the rise and rise of Sunny Leone, from the time she entered Indian households via Bigg Boss in 2012 to April 2015, when her film Ek Paheli...
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From Ramsay To Ram Gopal: The Evolution Of Hindi Horror Cinema
By Sakshi Jain: "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it" – Alfred Hitchcock [envoke_twitter_link]Hindi horror movies and Ramsay brothers are synonymous in the history of...
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‘How People Who Don’t Necessarily Belong To A Background Similar To Mine...
By Zehra Kazmi: Ramzan is obviously an important month for me but it’s true that I have been thinking about it more since I am writing a column on it. At this time last year, I was more concerned...
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Revisiting Hit Classics: Sayantani’s #MyMondayPlaylist With Rolling Stones,...
By Sayantani Jana: So turns out a lot many of you agree with us that ‘Music – On, World – Off’. Thrilled with the response we got when we asked you to share all that makes up your playlist – the...
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The Angrez Rani Turns In Her Grave As ‘Arey’ And ‘Yaar’ Make It To The...
By Arati Nair: The restaurant down the kerb, Gymkhana, won the prestigious 2014 National Restaurant Award. The highlights of its delectable menu include samosa papdi chat, pulao rice, chicken tikka...
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If You Thought We Had A ‘Free’ Press, This Will Make You Think Again
By Pallavi Ghosh: Journalism, for Gandhi, could “be useful and serviceable to the country only when it becomes unselfish and when it devotes its best for the service of the country, and whatever...
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Why I Choose To Call It ‘Ramzan’ And Not ‘Ramadaan’
By Zehra Kazmi: If we turn the pages of history, we can see how language has led to wars. It remains one of the most potent tools of influence in the world that shapes our society in myriad ways....
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The Khans Do Not Rule Bollywood, Upper Caste Hindu Actors Do
By Shinjini Devbarman: When The Hindu came out with a survey regarding the lack of diversity in Bollywood movies, it opened up a debate on the layers of discrimination that are inherent in the Indian...
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Exclusive: Monica Dogra On Her Project For LGBT+, Intentions, And The...
By Kanika Katyal: Singer-actor Monica Dogra, recently let out a 'call-to-action' for her new project, Shiver, which aims to appeal to "legislators all over the world to decriminalise all consensual...
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Comedy Nights With Kapil: It’s No Laughing Matter
By Nissim Mannathukkaren: "I am proud that, like Mark Twain, I have been able to use humour to lessen people’s hatred." — African-American comedian Richard Pryor If we are to go by TRP ratings, it...
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“I Am Too Queer For Muslims, And Too Muslim For Other Queers”: Conversations...
By Zehra Kazmi: It’s an interesting co-incidence that the month of Ramzan coincides with LGBTQI+ Pride Month this year. The legal validation given to homosexuality in Ireland and USA was followed by...
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