Culture Chicken mandi poster featuring Lord Krishna was not a ‘designer’s mistake’
I’m sorry that I’m late in telling you this, but this is what happens when you don’t know a language. At the outset, I would...
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Films Chiraiya shows something that doesn’t exist
Sorry to the fans of Chiraiya, but what you have been told is a lie. To those who don’t know, at the end of this...
Culture The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now
This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking and...
Culture Why Raulane’s takeover by content creators must concern us
Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show. In November 2025, these words, paired with mesmerising photographs, flooded timelines across Instagram, X and...
Culture De-Macaulayising the mind: Rajaji, the NEP and Bharat’s structural reorientation
In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation stone...
Culture Gone are the freedoms of self-sufficiency, the peace of self-dependence
Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside. The...
Books Your gateway to revisiting oral traditions
Reimagining the Myths of Himalayan Birds
