Living

The Frog Stew Debate

Sudeep Chakravarti

Frogs as an outlawed delicacy in the midst of a culture war

The Bikini Virgins

Shubhangi Swarup

Why Indian girls talk so much about bikinis but don’t wear them

The House Collector

Manju Sara Rajan

He stores whole mansions in his warehouses. Might give them to you, for a price, if he likes you

Where Men are from Venus

Pallavi Polanki

The Delhi HC has said men who have consensual sex with men are not criminals anymore. But at Love Life Society, a network of HIV positive homosexual men, liberation means much more

Michelin Slop

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

If mutts could talk, they’d grumble about the boring slop and the dry food that clatters into their bowls

Marching with Pride in Chennai

Avinash Subramaniam

Chennai, considered by many to be a very conservative city, saw its first gay pride parade on 28 June

The Emperor’s Clothes

Sohini Chattopadhyay

S Kumar’s Nationwide Ltd is among those bidding for the bankrupt Hartmarx, the Chicago-based apparel firm that counts US President Obama among its clients

Elephant and the Mahout

Ninad D. Sheth

This man-animal relationship that goes back ages is in danger of being lost forever

Salt of the Chic

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Common salt, did you say? These are boutique crystals, scraped from the Himalayas or harvested in France, bursting with health benefits and snob value. Go on, wake up and smell the salts