For Fariha, what began as a fun podcast turned into a virtual whirlwind of hostility, criticism, and unprecedented social media fame – everything that she today embraces gracefully to fuel her ambitions of strategic communication, cultural diplomacy, tourism promotion and global dialogue. A bold, feminist...
There is a reason why certain stories refuse to leave us. We encounter them at one stage of life, admire them, and move on. Then, years later, after heartbreak, motherhood, loss, love, reinvention, or healing, we return to them and discover that the story has...
Recently I was watching a series where I heard this term, “may be, he is your bad pancake”. The character goes on to explain, that a bad pancake is someone whom you meet after a long serious relationship, more like a rebound whom you may...
A few Sunday mornings ago, as the first light of dawn began to filter through the canopy of ancient rain trees lining the shaded avenues of IIT Madras, I found myself running not just through space, but through time itself. The air carried the faint,...
I will admit something that may get me into trouble with more serious art people: I do not always know what I am supposed to feel in a gallery. I feel excited at the prospect of viewing some beautiful or unique art, at doing something...
Perception of the LGBTQ+ community comes through whispers, caricatures, laws, and cautionary tales. So, one naturally grows up absorbing them long before learning to examine them. It gets deeply ingrained that there exists a “normal” way to love, a “natural” way to desire, or inhabit...
Parenting adolescents has always been challenging, but parenting adolescents today feels like entering a world for which many parents were never emotionally prepared. The rules seem to change overnight. Conversations that once happened within homes, schools, and neighborhoods now unfold through disappearing messages, gaming chats,...
There was a time, not so very long ago, when human beings knew the secret art of doing nothing at all. Not the polished nothing sold in wellness packages, not the mindful nothing timed by apps. Just pure, unhurried nothing, the kind that arrived unannounced...
Yes, this is a very common heading, it just felt right for the content. Growing up, from all the fairy tales I heard, what I envisioned was there will be a prince and he will marry the princess i.e. man marries a woman and vice...
When Heated Rivalry won the prestigious Peabody Award and joined the hallowed list of queer dramas like Baby Reindeer and Fellow Travellers, more than a few stunned jaws touched floors, especially of those who had dismissed the series after barely two episodes. “People have reduced...
