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Celebrations and Family: Is Generational Isolation A Good Thing?
Pepsi adverts are usually the pits, stupid writing and empty glitz, but this little short film on the importance of homecoming, family, and celebrations – with the barest glimmer of product placement –...
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Bronze Traceries on Rum: Bored Housewife Crafts
I’ve been very busy being bored lately, and have socialised mainly on social media, letting this blog whimper and slowly die. But fear not! For I am back, with the magic of DIY! And with a lot of...
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Freeing Indian Conscience
A bit late in the day, but still worth recording. Of course, legal practitioners have been arguing on social media that this freedom from declaring a religious affiliation was always present in the...
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From Fourteen Fasting Students Determined to Live
The students of Jadavpur University request humbly that you starve yourself for 24 hours. I pass on their request to you because I am heartened by your passionate outrage about global moral crises:...
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Live-in Ruins Careers
This is one of Markendya Katju’s least popular recent social media commentary. And that’s encouraging, because in India, people are still harassed and assaulted for the ‘indiscretion’ he counsels...
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Rescued Gems
The following is an excerpt from legendary big-game hunter and animal-lover – the two are not necessarily a contradiction in terms – JimCorbette’s “Robin”. I never saw either of his parents. The Knight...
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Victimising the Good Men
There has been a lot of noise in India lately about the banning of BBC’s India’s Daughter, forcing the house to release it virtually on YouTube (which promptly blocked its viewing, at least in India)....
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City Chicks in Sarees
It happens a lot less than people would have you believe. Once, young women moved from their babyhood swaddle straight into sarees, worn around the knee with the aanchol or pally wrapped tightly...
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The Woman Who Sold Us to Australia
“Virat Kohli has shown time and again that he is capable of great cricket. But a man’s skills can hold only for so long against the malicious influence of an unlucky woman. Think about it: every poor...
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Exercising Fire
Here is a PDF version of the story below: Exercising_Fire Exercising Fire Premendra Mitra Original Title: “Khanobdahe Ghonada” First published: July 1978 “No, it is NOT!”, roared Shishir. The...
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