New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- As the lights dim and the trailers start rolling, you sink into your seat, in complete communion with the screen. It's a focus and a withdrawal rarely achieved in any other setti... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- In his preface to the The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, the first volume of a planned series of speculative fiction anthologies by Westland Books, editor Gautam Bhatia admits ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- Pan Pasand ice cream. Cadbury's Fruit & Nut granola bhel. Restaurants named, unironically, "Nostalgia XYZ" (insert name of a city people have escaped because it was unliveable).... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Food discourse has gotten out of hand. Protein bros name and shame people for their carb-laden plates, nutritionists talk about plant-based diets with cultish fervour, chefs can'... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Abodh Aras recalls an incident from 15 years ago when a posh Mumbai club, which had around 38 sterilised stray dogs in its grounds, got rid of them illegally overnight. No one kn... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Preparing for this meeting with Lal Chand Bisu, co-founder of digital entertainment company Kuku FM, I started watching a popular microdrama on Kuku TV, an app launched by the co... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Akhila Srinivas recalls that the two things she associated with Bengaluru during her college days were beer and music. In the 1980s and 1990s, long before pub culture became mains... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- Dark academia is a sub-genre in fantasy fiction, often involving schools of magic, secret societies and evil experiments in the backdrop of a scholarly environment. But the darke... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- "Can we set a date for the collaboration?" a public relations executive asked me recently about fixing an interview slot with a business leader they were representing. Something ... Read More
New Delhi, July 13 -- You could call it a double peak Bengaluru moment, combining as it did two of the city's abiding passions-technology and citizen activism. Early in May, around 20 people assembled... Read More