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The quiet ones among us
April 3, 2026, 10:30 PM IST
In India, the loud child inherits the room. He answers before the question is finished. He laughs before the joke has landed. He shakes hands with a confidence that feels older than his years. Adults…
April 3, 2026, 10:30 PM IST
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An ode to Gen Z: Children of the perpetual now
March 15, 2026, 12:59 PM IST
Who are the Gen Z we keep hearing about in workplace surveys, social media discourse, and slightly bewildered dinner-table conversations? Are they simply those born after the late 1990s, fluent in TikTok, allergic to corporate…
March 15, 2026, 12:59 PM IST
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What the Foundation Course (FC) at LBSNAA teaches us about friendship
December 12, 2025, 1:10 PM IST
Friendship is the most human of miracles. It is a chosen family that brings with it the silent comfort of knowing that a stranger understands you without explanation. It is simultaneously the relief of being…
December 12, 2025, 1:10 PM IST
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India’s enduring love affair with hill stations
October 15, 2025, 10:18 PM IST
There is a certain romance in the Indian imagination when it comes to hill stations – a decadent kind of feverish nostalgia entwined with the entrails of colonial melancholy. The very word ‘hill station’ evokes…
October 15, 2025, 10:18 PM IST
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From Cyber Cafes to Reels: Growing up with social media in India
August 18, 2025, 12:00 PM IST
The early and mid-2000s were truly heady times. The much-feared Y2K bug was a dud, and despite protestations by Paul Krugman, the internet was slowly becoming the norm of modern life. In India, however, like…
August 18, 2025, 12:00 PM IST
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Chashni and chaos: An ode to the Indian mithai ki dukaan
August 11, 2025, 8:42 PM IST
Hazaaron Khwashein Aisi Ki Har Khwaish Pe Dam Nikle; Bahut Nikle Mere Armaan Lekin Phir Bhi Kam Nikle… – Mirza Ghalib (perhaps, when he could not get his hands on his favourite sohan halwa from…
August 11, 2025, 8:42 PM IST
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Dumbbells and gossip: A look inside the hood of India’s gyms
August 4, 2025, 3:26 PM IST
“He who has a why to lift can bear almost any how” – Friedrich Nietzsche (if he ever went to the gym) The gym, in India, is a microcosm of Indian society. The only material…
August 4, 2025, 3:26 PM IST
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Inside Delhi’s middle class homes: Cut, copy, paste !
July 21, 2025, 2:16 PM IST
Delhi, in many ways, is a sui-generis city. It is defined by its irreverent ambitions, petulant messiness, insoluble contradictions, and brutalist concrete. And nothing reflects its collective subconscious more clearly than the ubiquitous middle-class homes…
July 21, 2025, 2:16 PM IST
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Nostalgia
July 14, 2025, 9:31 AM IST
The idea for this article began, as many important quests do, with a VHS tape. I had found it while I was clearing out my old almirah. The tape labelled ‘Hyderabad Trip and Quiz Broadcast’…
July 14, 2025, 9:31 AM IST
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When everyone is an expert, no one is!
July 4, 2025, 10:34 AM IST
An old school friend recently sent me a detailed analysis of why Virat Kohli keeps getting out to deliveries around the fourth stump. It had something to do with certain planetary motions and Anushka Sharma’s…
July 4, 2025, 10:34 AM IST
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An ode to the National Capital Region: Memories of Noida and Vaishali
June 27, 2025, 3:51 PM IST
There are cities that arrive in the world fully formed, like Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, New York, and Rome. And then there are places like the National Capital Region (NCR) where cities are still building themselves,…
June 27, 2025, 3:51 PM IST
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A cultural autopsy of the death of hobbies in India
June 20, 2025, 9:39 AM IST
Somewhere in the second half of the Kala Kendra’s nritya-natakam on Karna’s life, just after the scene where he donates his kavach and kundal to Indra, I caught myself zoning out. I was sitting in…
June 20, 2025, 9:39 AM IST
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What the boys ate: The gastronomy of growing up in Delhi
June 13, 2025, 12:06 PM IST
There are two types of food stories in Delhi. The first is about Mughlai gravies, royal khansamahs, and secret spice mixes. The kind you see on the Epic channel narrated by Prof. Pushpesh Pant, or…
June 13, 2025, 12:06 PM IST
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The grocery list is dead. Long live the grocery app
June 4, 2025, 10:49 PM IST
A few years ago, when my mother first learned that tomatoes could arrive at our door in under ten minutes, she did not believe me. “Ten minutes? From where?” she asked, as if I had…
June 4, 2025, 10:49 PM IST
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