The land owner of the place I am currently staying at, Mr Raju, is a nice man. We have had a long association. I am the oldest tenant in this particular building, and he does not want me to leave his house. Why? I will...
As one enters Chennai from the Bangalore highway, one cannot miss Dr. MGR Engineering College standing tall and welcoming everyone to the city. The college also stands tall for being one of the few educational institutions in the city that embraces and adapts to new...
THE INTERLUDE by Fardeen Naushad It’s everywhere. Everybody’s always talking about it. There’s not a single person on earth who doesn’t know someone who hasn’t attempted it or succeeded at it. It’s hot news. Always. And yet we do so little about it. I walk...
A BEACH BABE WITH A PURPOSE If you’re looking for a great story, it’s usually a tale from the past or well, from science fiction. Nobody ever speaks of great stories from today. Stories created every day by ordinary people around us. One such story...
If you are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, or interested in its history and activism, you have probably heard of Hoshang Merchant. He is one of our most famous poets, critics, academics. In 1999, he edited the first mainstream publication of gay writings in...
Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter… I might tweak this proverb to read ‘direct’ rather than ‘write’ and ‘lioness’ instead of ‘lion’. At the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, female directors were showcased in the main...
THE 2018 floods which hit Kerala was termed the disaster of the century for the State. Something on that scale had occurred last in the year 1924. Of course, it won’t happen again in another 100 years, everyone thought. Until August 2019. While the worst...
The Provoke Awards 3.0 was the talk of the town all of last month and for good reason too. It wouldn’t be wrong for us to call our three-year -old baby the best awards show in Chennai! And this is not something we’re assuming. We’ve...
How would you define yourself? I would define myself as a passionate, loyal, emotional, focused, sensitive, straight-forward and adventurous girl who is a dreamer with a do or die attitude. If someone tells me I can’t do something, I’m definitely going to do it. The...
Hurrah! We, as a nation, turn 73 this month and I for one am all geared up to see the sudden one-day-long patriotic surge that will explode all around me. It’s going to be everywhere — television, social media, radio and even within my close...
