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The Museum of Innocence and the question(s) of love

India, March 1 -- "I can physically not deal with the intensity of this show," pressing the pause button, I texted my fellow screen addict. Needless to add, I spent an entire day binge-watching The Mu... Read More


Let's talk about punch, the abandoned monkey

India, Feb. 22 -- Punch, the abandoned monkey carrying his foster mama, an orangutan plushie, around in a Japanese zoo, has pierced deep emotional holes into the global internet audience's conscience.... Read More


This script of sexuality demands radical edits

India, Feb. 14 -- 'Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism: that which is most one's own, yet most taken away,' Catherine MacKinnon, feminist legal scholar, laid it bare. Yet, the idea that s... Read More


Frankly, my dear, we all need therapy

India, Feb. 8 -- You trust me, Sean? Sean: (Expletive) no! Jimmy: Doesn't matter. I'm a psychological vigilante. This, and countless other such exchanges, is the reason I'm hooked to Shrinking, cur... Read More


Why celebrate the grindcore culture?

India, Feb. 1 -- 'I am beginning to think God indeed exists.' Daddy, turning 70 this year, drops this bomb with his characteristic nonchalance. Munching on something, possibly gesturing to someone, he... Read More


Celebrating the world of grindcore culture

India, Jan. 31 -- 'I am beginning to think God indeed exists.' Daddy, turning 70 this year, drops this bomb with his characteristic nonchalance. Munching on something, possibly gesturing to someone, h... Read More


Why celebrate the grindcore culture?

India, Jan. 31 -- 'I am beginning to think God indeed exists.' Daddy, turning 70 this year, drops this bomb with his characteristic nonchalance. Munching on something, possibly gesturing to someone, h... Read More


The quiet revolution of lovers in the park

India, Jan. 25 -- There is no social rebellion bigger than the one nonchalantly mounted by the lovers in a park. Occupying benches, nestled against shady bushes, resting next to archaic trees, lying d... Read More


Zohran Mamdani & Rama Duwaji: How the wife rewrites rules of public life

India, Jan. 5 -- Rama Duwaji, the artist-wife of a young man who's created history, is making many of us nervous. How dare she not play second fiddle to Zohran Mamdani, the first ever Muslim mayor of ... Read More


New Year's Eve, Hope, and Some Rose Petals

India, Dec. 28 -- The outfit is ready, the tickets are booked, conveyance is mostly sorted, and if all goes well and no hooligans disrupt the festivities, it will be a happy New Year's Eve. In another... Read More