Gunjan Saxena, Netflix’s recent release about the first female to become an Indian IAF officer couldn’t have been timed better. There has been a cloudburst of ‘firsts’ in the cultural, social, and political spheres of our world for a couple of years, now. The ‘Me Too’...
When Covid closed down Jaipur’s teeming streets, Harmendra Singh, like many other daily wage laborers, panicked. How would he feed his family of six? For Harmendra, a blacksmith who makes INR 300.00 per day and lives in Jaipur’s Dhoongri slum, the shutdown in India...
With the world wide furore created by the Black Lives Matter movement and the soul searching about discrimination and xenophobia in countries around the globe, it’s time that Indians look themselves in the mirror and ask an honest question. How racist are we as a...
This weekend I watched two shows on Amazon Prime which were like cultural inversions of each other – Four More Shots Please and A Suitable Girl. They reinforced my beliefs that Indian culture is a tale of at least two (if not more) civilizations, that coexist...
A new bride, fresh off the boat, suddenly feels she’s being stalked by a stranger in her new country, but her husband dismisses her fears as exaggerated. A devoted acolyte of video games wakes up one morning with a black eye and has no idea what happened. Ugly...
