Cheap thrills

Let us unwrap our shiny new material pleasures and enjoy them thoroughly. (iStockphoto)

Perfect love may not exist but perfect gifts do

4 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Among all adulterated substances, the most panic-inducing are counterfeited drugs. (iStockphoto)

‘Laddus’ to drugs, adulteration is a national crisis

4 min read . 28 Sep 2024

Mahila Congress activists protesting in Thiruvananthapuram (PTI)

Skip bombast, build solidarities

5 min read . 30 Aug 2024

Manorama Khedkar, mother of IAS trainee Puja Khedkar, in Pune. (PTI)

Why does the accusing finger always turn towards the oppressed?

5 min read . 28 Jul 2024

Samajwadi Party workers protesting the NEET fiasco in Lucknow (HT)

The runaway train of crime in India

5 min read . 29 Jun 2024

As hard as it is to keep your child alive, it's hard for mothers to stay alive too. (iStockphoto)

When shame and judgement follow motherhood

5 min read . 25 May 2024

There is a tendency to analyse public relationships as pieces of pop culture. (iStockphoto)

The relentless energy of amateur online sleuths

4 min read . 29 Mar 2024

South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. (iStockphoto)

K-drama is far from the real lives of Korean women

5 min read . 01 Mar 2024

Advice columns have drama, and conflict. (iStockphoto)

Where everyone gets to be an agony aunt

5 min read . 22 Dec 2023

A still from the TV series ‘Frozen Planet’ (2011), narrated by David Attenborough and actor Alec Baldwin.

Hanging out with the Attenbros

6 min read . 24 Nov 2023

Accessing any kind of cash subsidy in India is not easy. (iStockphoto)

Why not try no strings attached cash transfers?

4 min read . 27 Oct 2023

When Gwyneth Paltrow used the phrase ‘conscious uncoupling’ for her break-up with Chris Martin, it caused much mirth. (Getty Images)

Political uncoupling in the season of break-ups

4 min read . 29 Sep 2023

Having to constantly defend meat-eating sidelines the possibility of meat-eating being a social tradition of your caste and community. (iStockphoto)

Is it raining meatballs in Mandi?

4 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Our school system is one that oppresses and discriminates. (iStockphoto)

Schools offer degrees of humiliation as education

5 min read . 01 Sep 2023

Recent unprecedented orca behaviour has triggered a variety of theories and responses from humans (iStockphoto)

Under the sea, there are all kinds of stories

4 min read . 18 Aug 2023

One way to think about the body is to look at old images of ourselves. (iStockphoto)

How buddies and bodies keep the score

5 min read . 04 Aug 2023

Marriage is still not a jolly place for women. (Unsplash/Benita Elizabeth John)

Marriage is convenient for men

5 min read . 21 Jul 2023

The Karnataka government’s ‘Shakti Yojane’ provides free bus travel for women across the state (PTI)

She’s got a ticket to ride—and he’s ticked off

5 min read . 23 Jun 2023

(from left) Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on 20 May. (Hindustan Times)

Getting tied up in extreme knots

4 min read . 09 Jun 2023

People stranded near the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Chandel district being evacuated. (PTI)

Leaving behind all the things that keep us human

5 min read . 26 May 2023