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'Breakfast isn't colonial. It finds mention in the Ramayana': Wknd interviews the author of First Bite

India, July 11 -- For Mumbai food writer Priyadarshini Chatterjee, 39, breakfast has always been the best meal of the day. It irritated her when people called it a foreign import and argued that Indi... Read More


From YouTube to cinema: Horror tales are bypassing studios, exploding on the big screen

India, July 4 -- Would you watch a movie, promote it and post online about it, if you had helped write the script? Of course you would. How about if you had been chatting with the director-producer f... Read More


From YouTube to cinemas: Horror tales are bypassing studios, exploding onto the big screen

India, July 4 -- Would you watch a movie, promote it and post online about it, if you had helped write the script? Of course you would. How about if you had been chatting with the director-producer f... Read More


Wicked little letters: Some of the world's worst, and best, typos are now on display

India, June 20 -- Million-dollar lawsuits have been lost because of a missing comma, so we know how expensive a typo can be. A missing Oxford comma, in a 2017 suit against Oakhurst Dairy in Maine, ca... Read More


Revolt aboard a floating brothel?: Tahmima Anam discusses her new book

India, June 12 -- What forms can rebellion take on a fast-sinking desolate island? Inspired by Banishanta, a real-life "floating" brothel settlement in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam's new novel, Uprising ... Read More


Continuity error: Welcome to the age of the anti-romcom

India, June 5 -- "I want to say this thing about her laugh. You know how it's... very cute, but it's also kind of... repulsive, even?" It's not the kind of thing one expects to hear from a groom draf... Read More


'Tell me where it hurts'

India, May 17 -- When players tell Priya Goswami they find her game exhausting, "it makes me happy," she says. "That's exactly what I'm aiming for." Super Asha, about a day in the life of an Indian he... Read More


'Tell me where it hurts': Inside a videogame about life as a health worker

India, May 16 -- When players tell Priya Goswami they find her game exhausting, "it makes me oddly happy," she says. "That's exactly what I'm aiming for." Super Asha, about a day in the life of an In... Read More


In an alternate universe

India, April 26 -- For decades, entire groups of people have misremembered the same specific things. This unsettling glitch-in-the-matrix-style phenomenon is called the Mandela Effect, from the fact t... Read More


In an alternate universe: How will the Mandela Effect evolve, in the age of AI?

India, April 25 -- * The evil stepmother never said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall.". (The line from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is "Magic Mirror on the wall") * Darth Vader didn't say, "L... Read More