“Disrespectful” – a label I’ve earned more times than I’d like to admit. On why respect in India functions less like a value and more like a currency. … More Respect – an Indian perspective
A day-one FMCG internship safety orientation sparked a bigger question: why does India treat safety as an afterthought instead of a given? … More India’s complicated relationship with ‘Safety’
“Just collecting twigs.” “Why?” A tongue-in-cheek dig into why humans have hobbies at all, and what that says about us as a species. … More Hobbies – weirder than you think!
A frantic “Mummy, what day is it on Monday?” before an office visit turns into a reflection on festivals, tradition, and losing track of both. … More The Great Hindu Festival
Zuckerberg’s Congressional haircut, Buffon’s last Champions League red card, and a mom who knows about the smoking – a scattered dispatch from April 2018. … More I don’t care about your politics
Remember boring, unemotional Doordarshan news? Turns out we should have appreciated it more. On how Indian media lost its way. … More Ye bik gai hai Media
Watched late, after Dangal had already dethroned PK as Bollywood’s highest grosser. A review of the film that skipped the usual item-number playbook. … More Dangal – A dhaakad review!
A lifelong morning person on the one wake-up call that never needed convincing – 5am Diwali mornings, and the nostalgia that still comes with them. … More The ghost of Diwali past
After the Paris attacks, a wave of profile-picture solidarity swept social media. A hard look at how tragedy gets turned into performance online. … More Terrorism and the social media circus
Punched, twisted, bruised – all within the first two seconds. A darkly funny account of boarding a Mumbai local from Kurla station at peak hour. … More Kurla
