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Indian society

The White Swan

Kaveree Bamzai

The film Gangubai Kathiawadi wants to valorise sex workers on the margins of society but its morality is confused

How Indians View Gender Roles

A new survey reveals a society divided between tradition and modernity

Amitabh Bachchan: National Coach

Who better than the grand patriarch of Bollywood to make caste visible and audible in his new film?

Scream of India

Have we become a nation of shouters?

The Root Cause II

Hindus are a safe target for stand-up comedians

Pankaj Mishra : Polemist as Novelist

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

Kareena’s Groom Rides a Mare

A small intervention by the police has changed an unwritten code of caste discrimination in a corner of Rajasthan

City Watching

Tales of aspirations and losses

Haute Hijab

When It’s a Fashion Statement

Living Virally

The power of cough in a post-Covid society

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