Essays

Who’s Laughing Now?

Michael Edison Hayden

Personal liberty is an undervalued commodity; we often do not appreciate it until we find someone has taken it away

Laxatives for Dessert

Saru Gupta

Eating disorders like anorexia have become a real problem in India, among not just teenagers, but also girls as young as 12

A Life Aromatic

Deepa Bhasthi

Coffee taster Sunalini Menon is the brain behind Coffeelab. She also loves Ethiopian beans

Saying No to St Stephen’s

Samir Chopra

Why rejecting one of the country’s premier educational institutes has had a long-lasting effect on me

No More Goddesses, Please. Bring in the Sluts

Brinda Bose

The ‘Abused Goddesses’ ad campaign on domestic violence is appalling and terrifying. By deifying women, it strips them of individuality, sexuality and power

The One and Only

Chinki Sinha

Will Patna’s first nightclub be able to survive? So wonders Chinki Sinha on a visit to Disc Man

A Terrorist’s Body

Gunjeet Sra

Gunjeet Sra recounts her memories of heading out with her grandfather as a child to join the village in a celebration at the spot where a Khalistani separatist had been gunned down

‘Let’s Share the Cock’

Nandini Krishnan

Prospective grooms say the darndest things. Nandini Krishnan gathers stories of hilarious adventures of women in the bizarre world of marriage arrangement