Not even a day goes by when we do not get some news from Afghanistan when one after the other women are subjected to atrocities. Just the other day in an interview with the Australian broadcaster SBS, the deputy head ...
Imagine this scenario, as you sit in the comfort of your house reading this essay on your cell phone or a computer there is a boy in some cases as young as nine being forced to dress as women and ...
India is in the middle of its second wave and our social media feeds have morphed into SOS helplines with citizens running pillar to post to arrange medicines and oxygen cylinders. Amid this, the pack of foreign correspondents and their ...
It is a sunny afternoon when Ravi gets a call on his phone. The caller on the other side shares the sad news of his oldest colleague passing away due to a heart attack. Ravi goes silent for a moment; ...
Here is a small story/thought experiment. Imagine we have a nuclear holocaust sometime in the future. Mankind is completely obliterated and we are down to our last few millions scattered across the planet earth. All our technology is destroyed along ...
Religion is all around us, we wake up in the morning to the sound of a temple bell ringing or a late-night azaan depending on our preference 🙂 Many of us are used to the sight of getting up early ...
Anger is an old ally/foe of the human species. It has accompanied us since the earliest times and from time immemorial. As per the Scientists at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology (University of California Santa Barbara) Anger is an “evolved ...
The world of Indian English Language Stand-Up Comedy is on fire again. In the last few days, we have seen a number of comics suspend their Twitter accounts faster than the speed of light. It all started with a clip ...
Days come and days go but nothing really changes. If you are one of the millions of users on social media in India, your daily experience ranges from recreational outrage to sob stories where every single irrelevant topic is discussed ...
As we anticipate probably a second lockdown, India finds itself staring deep into the abyss of a fractured economy. The maximum city of Mumbai, once hustling and bustling, seems like a minimalist nightmare. Traders and manufacturers have lost a month ...