Hope I Die Before I Get Old
Amitabh Bachchan chews the scenery in Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Piku’, but provides a compelling portrait of a…
The Magazine
Get Back To Where You Once Belonged!
In this month’s satire, Muhammad Tahir analyses the semiotics of a middle-finger protest, and a controversial…
The Prickly Politics of the Ladies’ Seat
Is it discriminatory to reserve seats for able-bodied women in public transport? Recently, I travelled on…
The Secret to Success
Madhuri Banerjee was irked at being labelled a chick-lit author, until she realised that it was…
Lynch Mob
Great cinema points out the ugliness in our society. ‘Gabbar is Back’ is the ugliness, says…
Food Fights
The manufactured controversy around Shobhaa Dé’s tweets reveals the extent to which the political discourse in…
Mother Wit
Nitasha Kaul writes a short story about a woman seeking to escape excruciating pain through the…
A Capital Affair
Struggling to call it her own, Abhilasha Kumar writes about her complicated relationship with that most…
The Pakoda-Frying Feminist
It’s okay to not question whether every move we make furthers the cause of women worldwide,…
Fault(y) Lines
Women, and not the divisions between them, should be the focus of discussions about the women’s…