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Nudity in cinema: Benedict bares a bit
Benedict Cumberbatch has been an audio-visual treat, from top to bottom.
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Harry Potter returns: Nostalgia casts a spell
Just like 'Friends: The Reunion', this after-party is also all set to play with our psyche. Will we demystify a trick, follow another star, fall deeper in love with the series?
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’Tis the season for book prizes
With translations now an organic part of the Indian writing in English firmament and gender parity being not just rued but rectified one step at a time, the world of letters is seeing its own revolutions.
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The sexiest man alive is Rudd, Paul Rudd
‘Sexy’ is not a static word in the sapiosexually charged world of ours. It is a word that casually changes clothes in public, going from worked out calves to twinkling eyes…
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Beauty over everything else: The fringe benefits of fringes
In some cases, bangs go over the eyes, covering vision lightly but attractively. Not seeing where you are going is considered a small sacrifice for the purpose of beautification.
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Meta narrative: Facebook by any other name
A fashionable self-referencing nuance, very self-aware, an uber neo act of futuristic navel gazing, yes, but Meta also shouts down the chorus of ‘But, Mark…’
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Diwali ads, watch out! Trolls are on the prowl
Sometimes in their eagerness to ‘sell, sell, sell’, companies end up burning their own fingers. Saying the wrong thing can overwrite that painfully cultivated caring vibe.
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German author’s new novel tours old India
Author Christopher Kloeble who lives in Berlin writes about Bombay, Madras and Calcutta in 'The Museum of the World'.
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Aryan Khan is everyone's child
Vast parental guilt exists in an enormous quantity in all of us at all times.
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Why the most vicious RWA fights are fought remotely, in WhatsApp groups and group emails
Uncles and aunties who smile politely behind their masks in elevators and corridors turn into bloodthirsty werewolves when crossed in the ether, this is a fact of life.
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The English in your Malayalam
Office becomes ‘aapis’. Bribe becomes ‘something’, as in ‘something kodukendi varum’ – you will have to give something/bribe.
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The art of self-forgiveness
Two words that suck out all joy from existence are ‘if only’.
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No healing from 9/11
After most global calamities, there is a catching of breath, a gathering of the human spirit and then a slow outpouring of grief in artistic or cultural spellings. But this was no ordinary tragedy.
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The warm blanket of yore
If time machines were available, we’d queue up for a quick tour of our own back stories, a rewind of our childhood and youth.
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This week in women
From the announcement of an all-female road-trip movie to Amitabh Bachchan's baritone replacing Alexa's voice - some highlights.
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Get off on the right foot
In our homes, the coffee table is used for board exam studies, tuitions and putting feet up.
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Happy birthday, India
How to observe Independence Day in a pandemic year, marked by loss and suffering.
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Please be seated
To be able to slump into a luxurious arrangement of well-placed cushions is a carnal event.
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Mimi the mommy: the image of the mother who smiles through sacrifices is reaching its expiry date
Mummying is an individual journey each person undertakes for herself.
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Why mythology will always sell
Our past is just too rich with fables and folklores, too relevant to modern contexts to dry up as source material anytime soon.
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How sexism pokes its nose into the matter of humour too
To find a man who makes you laugh is one of the things on a woman’s wish list; to find a woman who finds him funny is on his. Humour is foreplay man to woman; woman to man, it walks a platonic path.
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What I am is what I am
As we confront our own existential angst, whatever spills out as understandings, as a listening, as practical help to others, to anyone, that is what our humaneness is made up of.
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#MeToo: What we can learn from the Bill Cosby case
To learn that comedian Bill Cosby, 83, has gotten away because of a legal loophole feels like a giant leap backwards.
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What do I wear?
The work from home collection, our Covid couture, has brought those clothes out of our cupboards that we thought had died.
