New Delhi, March 28 -- ​​As children, my sister and I were taught to weave baskets from plastic wire, sitting for hours to fold, insert and tug the strips into squares or little ​nel... Read More
New Delhi, March 21 -- In Bengaluru's Terminal 2 (where I spend far too many hours) is a corridor leading to the restrooms that's lined with vintage posters from "the golden age of travel". Air India'... Read More
New Delhi, March 14 -- It's often been a complaint about history that we know how the kings and nobility lived but rarely hear of the lives of their subjects, the ordinary folk who cut wood for their ... Read More
New Delhi, March 7 -- Until my colleague Uday Bhatia sent me a list of lesser hits and insisted I listen to them, I'd found Arijit Singh somewhat formulaic, too much guitar, too much weepy heartbreak.... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- As much as we are bound to deadlines, page views, news cycles and the other perennial challenges of magazine and culture journalism, to work at Lounge is to take the longer view,... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There's so much about the Winter Olympics that's baffling-why "skimo"; who thought skiing and shooting together is a good idea (biathlon); how does curling, which looks like some... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- They're simple lines and strokes, but each of the birds that veteran Cholamandal artist Premalatha Seshadri sketches express a different mood. I came across her work many years a... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Art often seems baffling because as human beings we seek firm logic. We want things to 'make sense', but art can leave us unmoored simply because it does not make sense in the way... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Before it was banned in India, TikTok ate up unhealthy amounts of my day. I got a lot of eye-rolls when I said it but I loved the humour, the carefree attitude and the reality of... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- In a surprisingly short period of time, Artificial Intelligence has ripped into every aspect of life, business, arts, leisure, society, entertainment. Every so often, Lounge repo... Read More