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Saturday Feeling: The unexpected joy and chaos of travelling the old-fashioned way

New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- I have to say I find the image we used on the cover of the print issue of Mint Lounge this week (cover below), rather amusing. Not so long ago, those "analogue" items were the e... Read More


Saturday Feeling: How climate change is endangering Indian crafts

New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Traditional Indian methods of creating and making are often held up as an example of sustainable living, of circular practices, and of countering climate change. But we rarely th... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Gulzar's Mumbai and the poetry of cities

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- In this age of hybrid work and unbroken connectivity, we can live anywhere, work elsewhere, direct events in a third place, and take a course that's at the other end of the world... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Goa's got a game plan

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Late last year a friend took her pre-teen twin boys on a road trip to Goa, but their aim wasn't to see the beaches or the forts and churches. The boys are avid chess players and ... Read More


Saturday Feeling: For Gen Z, freedom is about living without fear

New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- One of the first films I watched soon after I finished college and started work-living alone in a new city as a reporter and with friends to take up every free moment-was Dil Cha... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Why writers and filmmakers are sending their main characters to Pakistan

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In the most recent of her popular Butterfly books, Between You, Me & the Four Walls, Moni Mohsin's Butterfly Khan observes, "Some Indians I've seen on Facebook are saying kay haw,... Read More


Saturday Feeling: The language of art, protest and food

New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- It's been a week since Gen Z firebrands ended their protest, but most of the country is still talking about them, their anger and irreverence, their creativity and their joy. Alon... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Bengal's hilsa is swimming against the tide

New Delhi, July 25 -- It may seem like a uniquely Bengali preoccupation-does hilsa from the river or the sea taste better? Yet beneath that seemingly pedantic argument lies a host of issues including ... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Reimagining the idea of the family to encompass all kinds of love

New Delhi, July 18 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories for different kinds of love, understanding that eac... Read More


Saturday Feeling: Reimagining the idea of a family

New Delhi, July 17 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories for different kinds of love, understanding that eac... Read More