Initially when people used to tell me, ‘Oh how can you be so selfish’ I used to wonder, what I did wrong? As time passed, I started giving much less weightage to people’s opinions but I started analysing the situations that lead people to think...
A seven-year-old cannot sit still in class. An eight-year-old cries before school every morning. A ten-year-old struggles to read. A teenager spends hours alone in their room. Increasingly, the first question many adults ask is not, "What happened?" or "What does this child need?" Instead,...
Every generation inherits a free nation, but inheritance is passive. It falls to each of us to decide whether we will guard that freedom or quietly surrender it to new, subtler powers. There is a silence unique to the hour before dawn — different from...
There's a long-standing joke that Madras is a grand old dame… that she is too placid, stuck and reluctant to change. Well, in a number of ways, she is old. Founded in the 17th century as one of the earliest British settlements in India, Madras...
From activewear and lab-grown diamonds to luxury real estate and wellness, four entrepreneurs are building brands that reflect the evolving aspirations of India’s modern consumer. India’s luxury and lifestyle landscape is entering an exciting new phase, driven by consumers who increasingly value design, quality, transparency...
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...
