HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
World Health Day 2023 | Who's afraid of the annual medical check-up?
‘Please relax’ is the scariest sentence, with or without eye contact. What follows is an undignified tug of war, with medical instruments pulling, scraping, drawing and finally clanging.
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April Fool's Day: Pranks corporates play
Lay’s India once announced chips in a no-share pack, installed with fingerprint sensors. Amazon launched Petlexa, to have Alexa chat with dogs and cats. And remember Expedia's tickets to Mars?
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The Innocent school of comedy: How the Malayalam actor owned his Thrissur accent
Innocent neither exaggerated the accent nor overplayed it. It was just his thing, like a down to earth vocabulary, the way he had of turning his head and trademark facial expressions.
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From Julius Caesar to Paris Hilton and Prince Harry, the perks of being a memoirist
Spilling the beans about oneself is an ego trip no one can resist.
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International Booker longlist | Why Perumal Murugan’s Pyre is poised to set the world on fire
Written by Perumal Murugan and translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, 'Pyre' is the first Tamil novel to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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Gulmohar film review: Singing ‘We are family’ in a new, melodious tune
After a long, long time, has come a family drama that explores blood ties and non-blood ties with depth and backstory.
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International Women's Day 2023 | Carpe diem, women tell women
From pay parity to a sense of safety, women are fighting the good fight to secure their future.
LIFESTYLE
Gossip girl, gossip boy and why we love to gossip
Gossip, the oldest entertainment industry, the openly delicious form of public discourse, cuts across all genders.
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Why we love (Indian) horror stories and films
Our ghosts, shaped out of folklores and legends, were never shy of the spotlight, and were in their haunting element more readily than foreign ghosts.
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Spadikam re-release: Bringing abracadabra back
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Trial by Fire: Uphaar fire and its human toll
The dramatised version of events in Trial by Fire, created by Kevin Luperchio and Prashant Nair, takes viewers through the truths and brutalities that mark an incident that is personal and yet a public one.
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Hair loss, and other troubles with tresses
Gone are the days when you bought a simple shampoo and conditioner. Now there's gel, mask, leave-in conditioner, serum, Biotin pills, Ayurveda oils and even eggs and onion juice.
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Mind of the unruly airline passenger
Once they board the plane, they take great pleasure in creating a queue behind them as they look at the ticket and then at each seat number in slow motion, like they have just regained sight.
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Harry and the half-price prince
Spare details Prince Harry's angst, pangs, traumatic past, tumultuous present and everything in between in a verbose bonfire of fraught moments overshooting 400 pages.
INDIA
Accident or suicide, time for blame game
As a nation we’d rather bury our head in the sand than go for a forensic examination of what went wrong. Ignoring the ‘why’ is a habit, leading to faulty diagnosis.
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Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey vs Darlings vs Thappad: Goose, gander, sauce
How men come off in these stories, where the heroism is completely reserved for the female protagonist, has to be convincing and that particular empathy walks the tightrope.
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Daniel Craig is back as Detective Benoit in 'Glass Onion - A Knives Out Mystery': Peel away with pleasure
There is suspense in 'Glass Onion'. There is a body count. There is opulence. And there is idiocy – a mix that does not talk down to its audience.
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Knock, knock – it’s me, Covid
Is Covid going to reuse the planet as a deadly dance floor? Nah, we shake our head and go about our day.
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The White Lotus season 2: A scenic route to human foibles
The White Lotus can be viewed as a contemporary Jane Austen look at social follies.
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Net ninjas fighting revenge porn
Revenge porn is a tool and toy in the hands of a jilted Romeo. Helplines and NGOs fighting non-consensual intimate image abuse are slowly coming up in the world.
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Charlie Brown, Snoopy & Co wish Charles Schulz on his 100th birthday
Charles Schulz drew the Peanuts comic strip every day from 1950 until his death in 2000. Schulz would have been a hundred today.
WORLD
People of the world: 8 billion and counting
From the Catholic church’s displeasure with birth control to China’s one-child policy, somehow this is a place that balances itself when it comes to numerals.
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Blue ticks: Trick or treat?
Twitter being Twitter is full of tweets about the tick – for, against, mocking and memes.
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‘Happy birthday, papa’: Virat Kohli’s daughter to wish him from India
Vamika may wonder why Virat Kohli is playing peekaboo on his birthday of all days. Between dads and daughters, though, this is okay – blood is thicker than birthdays after all.
