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Homophobia Has No Place In Sikhism
By Sukhdeep Singh On 26 January, India's first transgender band launched their second song along with Sonu Nigam. The song titled "Sab Rab De Bande", was derived from a famous shabad from the Guru...
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Drought, Dosa Economics And The Dire Subtext Of RBI Governor's Speech
That the government and the Central Bank differ on how to manage the economy is a well-known trope in economics. It is no different in India. The current governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram...
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Not Business As Usual: Feeling The Reverberations Of The Kunduz Hospital Bombing
The first thing that you see from the airplane as it descends is Kabul's barren landscape -- both beautiful and breathtaking. I have mixed feelings as I enter Afghanistan. My family and friends could...
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Why True Freedom Is Being Able To Walk To School
Recently, I ran a mini-survey of my friends in India. I asked them what a 24-hour day looked like for their children. Below is a synthesis of the various activities in a day: As you can see, the child...
View Article4 Interesting News Media Trends To Watch
The year 2015 saw a whole lot of changes in the media and entertainment industry, and we witnessed tectonic shifts in the way news is delivered and consumed. Real-time news became immensely popular...
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Three Cheers For Our Sweaty, Sassy, Sporty Padmas
Oh, dashing devilish daring Djoko... no, no, no, no... hang, on let's talk about him later. It's the girls who are my champions right now. Do I need to say who? The invincible Martina Hingis and Sania...
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Go Vegan To Cut Your Cancer Risk
Each year, about 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer and 8 million people die of the disease worldwide. This year's World Cancer Day on 4 February takes an inspiring approach to tackling the...
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5 'Airlift' Reasons Why Indians Rock
This year I will complete three years in the US. There is much to love about my new home. A nice suburban house with landscaped gardens, taps with running hot water all 24 hours, orderly traffic,...
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Judgments On The Roads: The Chilling Culture Of Vigilantism In India
The concept of frontier justice or vigilantism is as old as human civilisation itself. The mob becoming judge, jury and executioner is a phenomenon with a long and tragic past and no part of the globe...
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How I Became (And Unbecame) A Slut-Shamer
I do not remember having a 'bird and bees' talk with my mother. My first 'sex' lesson came from Bollywood films. We were not frequent visitors to the cinema halls and had an on-and-off relationship...
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The Return Of India Shining
On 16 May 2014, the stock markets caroused wildly, expecting an exhilarating acceleration on a glistening expressway as the harbingers of "acchhe din", the BJP and Narendra Modi, overwhelmed political...
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My Fight Against The Cultural Appropriation of Samosas
Last week, I fell in love with a new song, and feeling that my flatmates deserved to hear me sing it 24x7 for the next three months, I decided to learn it. But I'd only just typed "Hymn for the Weekend...
View ArticleWhy Consciousness Is The 'Guarantor Of All We Hold To Be Human And Precious'
In the preface to his book, Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness, Nobel laureate and neuroscientist Gerald M Edelman says, "Consciousness is the guarantor of all we hold to be human...
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Dear Independent, You've Got To Be Kidding Us About Bombay
A British newspaper has decided to cease referring to the city of Mumbai as that and will instead fall back to Bombay, the colonial-era name for India's greatest metropolis. The decision, the paper's...
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Don't Try After Sunset: The Most Haunted Places In Delhi (Part 1)
By: Arjun Pandey, founder, Delhipedia Delhi, the capital city of India, has more than 1300 monuments. Some of them have deep dark secrets. It is also widely believed that many of them are haunted,...
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Leap of Faith: What A Water Slide Taught Me About Fear
The "Leap of Faith" at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai is a water slide located at the resort's in-house water park, Aquaventure. It is at a height of about 60 feet, almost vertical in angle, thus resulting...
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TRAI Let Down Millions By Saying No To Free Basics
At last, the much awaited decision on adapting Facebook's concept of Free Basics is over. The Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) ruled in favour of net neutrality and rejected Free Basics (wherein free...
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Pink And Blue: The Colours Of Gender Stereotyping
Have you seen a newborn baby recently? Chances are that you'd guess their gender right if they were wearing pink or blue clothes. After all, it is almost universally accepted that blue is for boys and...
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Aamir Khan And Brand Intolerance
Aamir Khan has no brand endorsements left in his kitty. Ostensibly because of his recent statement on 'intolerance'. There were lots of initial reactions, including that Aamir's statement was... Poorly...
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What It Will Take For Video On Demand To Succeed In India
The on-demand video streaming industry in India has been well and truly percolating, with a host of developments since the latter half of last year. Production houses have ventured into this space and...
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