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That Badshah is misogynistic is not a particularly illuminating observation. The misogyny is a creative condition of his music, as fundamental to it...
Maybe the only way to truly police Indian men’s behaviour is to have their mothers accompany them on every trip. Should they want to approach a...
Young boys who should be sweating about schoolwork are learning how to corner women. Are we now supposed to add children to the list of people we need...
‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at...
I hope the Indian students in Iran make it back home safe. They have suffered enough, at home and abroad. But a culture that can only accept two...
I hope the Indian students in Iran make it back home safe. They have suffered enough, at home and abroad. But a culture that can only accept two...
For settlers who arrived before the latest wave, watching the transformation unfold has been disorienting. 'Suddenly, Goa is a rich person’s place.'
Platforms that manufactured a culture of 10-minute delivery have now made consumers an equal party to the exploitation of workers.
A little over a year into operation, after opening in early 2024, Grumps has become one of Goa’s most coveted dining destinations.
These were the battles we thought we’d already fought. The slow recognition that caste is a plague upon Indian society. The hard-won right to choose...
The more we get to know about Birch, the more it becomes clear that it was operating in the gaps between jurisdictions.
Kabir Singh started Bollywood's misogyny Olympics. 2025's top contender is Dhanush and Kriti Sanon-starrer Tere Ishk Mein.
Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title...
If Sanjeev Nanda and his BMW represented the entitled carelessness of wealth, today’s drivers represent its weaponised rage.
The real acrimony in Goa is against tourists and wealthy land buyers from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Yet, the fury gets channelled downward against...
Karnataka’s menstrual leave policy is worthy of applause. But it exists in a country where menstruating women can be stripped and humiliated any...
Rhea Chakraborty’s steadfastness is real, but so is the wreckage. She might have made peace with it, but her life was stolen from her.
The institutional default is not the protection of students and staff, but damage control. You see it play out at SAU, IIT-BHU, RG Kar, and Durgapur.
Babas fill a gap in society—the dignity and sense of belonging, however illusory, that organised religion has failed to provide so many Indians.
Remote workers who arrived in Goa after 2020 are now leaving their sunshine dreams behind. They are questioning whether the infrastructure ever...
Bengaluru, which cannot manage its waste or water, has no problem setting up a FASTag system to deduct congestion tax.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the...
Drunk on the Kool-Aid of India’s imminent Vishwaguru status and the Madison Square Garden rallies, we’re convinced that our obnoxious behaviour...
India is hardly alone in this. Across the world, those who cheer authoritarian overreach discover that the bulldozer eventually comes for them, too.
Critics see the two Bills as a means to reorder Goa’s centuries-old land ownership patterns under the guise of efficiency.
There is terrible news for India’s one-percenters, who control '60% of India’s total wealth' — or $11.6 trillion in assets.
Gomes cooks all day long, and undertakes two rounds: The first at 5 am, when she takes an autorickshaw around and makes 22 stops; the second at 5 pm,...
Civics textbooks need an upgrade, considering that RWAs enforce laws they’ve devised themselves – no matter if it violates a fundamental right or two.
Buyers rarely bother with details like health clearances or the breeder’s credentials when their primary goal is to achieve a specific,...
Gurugram has a problem of structural abandonment, whether you’re a domestic worker speaking an alien language, or the much-celebrated CEO of the new...
In declaring victory over the khap panchayat, we misunderstood the power structure. The real machinery of 'honour killings' never needed a banyan...
These YouTubers are simply the latest iteration of a racism so normalised that it erupts predictably whenever Northeast India enters national...
It’s especially infuriating when you know that Punjab has provided Bollywood with decades of ‘content’ – a salubrious background for filmy...
English is now code for a clever adversary we’ve known in the past, variously as ‘anti-national’, ‘tukde-tukde gang’, ‘Lutyens’...
Kanchan Kumari’s murder represents the lethal endpoint of India’s broader moral policing epidemic. It extends far beyond religious vigilantism...
In a state where hotel ownership, restaurant businesses, and even beach shack operations have increasingly moved to outside investors, the taxi sector...
The informal economy’s most vulnerable become convenient scapegoats for attendant concerns about jobs and cultural change. The backlash against...
Attari-Wagah border parade is just too undignified to survive. Some wounds require reverence, not a carnival.
Our Foreign Secretary said citizens criticising their own government is the hallmark of any open and functioning democracy. And yet here we are.
In Bahishkrut Gomantak, Dadu Mandrekar shows a Goa that exists far away from the dive bars, heritage tours, and laid back beach shacks.
It would have been understandable if Himanshi Narwal and Aarti R Menon demanded vengeance or gave in to communal hatred. Instead, they chose something...
The myth that casino development represented some organic evolution of Goa’s character has been demolished. Now, Panjim stands alienated from...
Mumbai’s vegetarian supremacy extends beyond residential buildings. From Nepean Sea Road to Chowpatty, restaurants serving non-vegetarian food have...
Japanese bartender Hiroyasu Kayama’s interest in Goan urrak is a recognition that certain traditions carry weight in their resistance to...
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court recently ruled that a woman who was sexually assaulted 'invited trouble' by drinking alcohol...
There’s something deliciously mordant about minister Piyush Goyal standing before India’s most successful non-conformists, only to scold them for...
Indian liberals find themselves in a bewildering reality—having to appreciate something created by Musk, a man who wears his anti-woke credentials...
What unfolded that night at Uday Bhembre’s residence was the visible edge of a trend: Who controls the past, and through it, public imagination.
The Israeli tourist in Karnataka did everything India asks of women to be safe—and yet she carries home the scars of a brutal sexual assault.
Every few months, someone sounds the alarm on Goa’s imperiled identity—sometimes it’s idli-sambar, sometimes gobi manchurian.
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