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There is a difference between having politically opinionated contestants and making their political identities the show’s unofficial content...
India’s athletics campaign in the Asian Games was full of near-misses at Nagoya. Then 4 women delivered gold, preserving a 44-year streak.
Radhika Apte talks about bold, flawed, curious and unapologetic women. She is a perfect example of ‘Indian beauty with brains’. Both Netflix and...
India finds desire sexy in English, but vulgar in Hindi. Lust Stories 3 flips the script.
Kiran Rao gave us Dhobi Ghat 2.0. I wanted another version of Lust Stories.
Social media is flooded with people obsessing over Siddharth’s scenes in the trailer. No one can stop staring at his messy curls, handlebar...
Why punish a performer for decisions not in his control, while the organisers who actually enforced the censorship face no consequences?
It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.
The events lined up in Jammu mostly featured local filmmakers and artists. There is a difference between platforming local artists and making a city...
There is a difference between writing a flawed woman and repeatedly writing a woman whose flaws become her entire personality.
Sunita Ahuja’s appeal lies in that lack of PR training. She contradicts herself, forgives, laughs about things that hurt her. It is not hypocrisy,...
While Bollywood films reduce the enemy to a cartoonishly evil band of military officers, ‘Operation Safed Sagar’ treats Pakistani officers as what...
Not one A-lister asked the government to take accountability. Not one took the education minister's name, leave alone questioning his handling of the...
It's rare for these millennials and Gen-Z to agree on anything on social media, but but Shiv Kumar Batalvi seems to be an exception.
Shabana Azmi has been unbothered by who or which party happens to be in power. Her first recorded protest dates back to 1985 against the demolition of...
Khalid Ke Shivaji is not a film that villainises Hindus or glorifies Muslims. It calls out the machinery of division.
The Odyssey still centres on Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and his long road home after the Trojan War. But, the women around him are no longer just...
The more structured cricket gets, the less room it leaves for the kind of unstructured genius that built Garry Sobers.
Social media's obsession with giant insulated tumblers is over as cool girls ditch the viral merch to make hydration simple again.
If your ‘Pan-Asian’ ambitions begin and end with dumplings and Thai green curry, perhaps it is better you don’t overpromise and then underdeliver.
Defying the industry's usual comeback script, the actor rebuilt her life through a hit podcast, fashion, and reality TV.
One of the early examples of method dressing is when Geena Davis arrived at the 1992 premiere of A League of Their Own in a white dress detailed with...
India suffered a 2-0 defeat to Ireland in the two-match T20I series in Belfast, as the hosts registered their first-ever bilateral T20I series win...
For possibly the first time ever, I will be switching sides in the never-ending tug-of-war between filmmakers and the CBFC. 'Toxic' needs a long, hard...
The sight of British High Commissioner Lindy Cameron paying tribute to the crash victims should force us to ask uncomfortable questions.
Sejal Pawar’s clip began circulating on social media only after Himanshu Jhangra was fired from his job after a social media firestorm over his...
Apoorva Mukhija got rape threats and FIRs for retorting to a comment about her body on India’s Got Latent. Pranit More got a rap on the knuckles for...
Suresh Triveni’s Netflix film wants viewers to believe that a sleeveless blouse attracts judgement in an urban neighbourhood today. Have we all...
A recent viral video from ‘Chand Mera Dil’ featured Ananya Panday performing a fusion of Bharatnatyam with hip-hop and locking. Social media...
For years, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was mocked for gaining weight and oversized sleeves. This was a departure from body-hugging gowns & delicate sarees...
A seasonal menu should capture the mood of summer, not just its most marketable fruit. Summer is floral, smoky, tangy, cooling, sharp, juicy, and...
Tabinda Sanpal owns over 40 kg of gold. And she claims that massaging her husband’s feet, trimming his nails, and ‘pampering’ him brings...
The pacer played a pivotal role in J&K’s historic Ranji Trophy victory, where he single-handedly dismantled Karnataka’s top batting order in the...
In the song, Adnan Sami is not trying to ‘save’ women or become some aggressively woke mascot. He simply changed the lens around a taboo object.
The sequel attempts to humanise ‘the devil’, and surprisingly, it works. Miranda’s emotional exchange with Nigel is the sequel’s most earned moment.
Ube’s sweet, nutty, almost vanilla-like flavour doesn’t need convincing. You don’t have to acquire a taste for it. And matcha fatigue is all too real.
A love triangle, a heartbreak, and some jaw-dropping drama have brought the show straight into social media chatter, memes, and even X’s trending...
A Harry Potter reboot coming barely a decade and a half after the original films ended risks flattening our emotional history.
The song was taken off YouTube a day after its release. But where was this energy when songs like Choli Ke Peeche & Fevicol Se came out? Those songs...
If Indian franchise owners begin excluding Pakistani players in foreign leagues, it could open the door for accusations that India is unfairly...
This also tells that everything that rhymes is music, and everyone who can string together catchy lines is an artist. Badshah’s work is a reminder...
Despite milestones like WPL viewership and Smriti Mandhana’s record‑breaking century run, too many online voices treat athletes like fashion models.
Arijit Singh has the emotional depth and melody the older generation wants. But he also carries the vulnerability that young people can connect with.
It all began one fateful night at an award show in 2014, where Arijit Singh's joke and banter with Salman Khan was interpreted as 'an insult to Salman...
Vishal Mishra’s work includes songs like “Naacho Naacho” from RRR, “Kaise Hua” from Kabir Singh, & “Pehle Bhi Main” from Animal, among other hits.
Publicly, Indians pretend to be conservative, modest, and get deeply offended by any reference to sex. Privately, the same people consume sexual...
From "I don't hold grudges because it affects my skin" to knowing clout doesn't need validation, but direction. Passi concocted the perfect business...
Perhaps the clearest indicator of how shallow the tour was lies in how Luis Suárez and Rodrigo de Paul were treated. These aren’t random names.
Even in India, calling paneer, cottage cheese, causes a mini-identity crisis, and calling a vegetable-loaded rice, biryani, can lead to a full-blown...
Virat Kohli may joke about needing to colour his beard every four days, but age has mattered far less than critics have predicted.