Living

Wit Com

Sudha G Tilak

Two new laughter TV channels are doing well in Tamil Nadu. Similar fare awaits Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam viewers. Comedy is serious business in the south

It’s Only Words

Rahul Bhatia

Waiters, drivers and watchmen in Mumbai are all writing Hindi film scripts. And they are waiting for that call that will change their lives forever. The one that never comes

For a Holiday from Men

Shubhangi Swarup

Many Indian women nurse a desire to travel alone, without boyfriends, husbands or fathers ‘guarding’ them. But why is that so hard?

Drinking the World

Ninad D. Sheth

Foreign brews are filling up our cellars, uncorking a new drinking culture and giving the industry a peg up

Something Fishy

arindam

Tandoori pomfret, tuna sushi, bhapa ilish and sardine sandwiches. Meal time may never be the same with all these species vanishing

The World according to Children

Madhavankutty Pillai

Life, love, India, world, violence, politics, ice-cream: what’s on their minds

Hot Steppers

Shubhangi Swarup

More people in Indian cities are learning erotic moves like belly dancing and lap dancing, apart from eternal favourites like Salsa and Tango. But why?

Image Bombing

CP Surendran

Our visual reality is shaped by 50 odd celebs. We see them day and night. Shouldn’t our world be more than the sum total of these done-to-death faces?

In Pursuit of the Perfect Blouse

Manju Sara Rajan

Indian women wait for many years to find The One. The One who fully understands a blouse

Brotherhood of Urchins

Shubhangi Swarup

On the streets, boys survive on a powerful code of absolute friendship. They become one, a swarm, a super organism that sometimes gapes through your car window