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Being Indian, and being seen as one

India, Oct. 12 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attraction... Read More


Being Indian, and being seen as one

India, Oct. 11 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attract... Read More


Are we the most health-conscious unhealthy generation?

India, Sept. 28 -- In a twist of irony, in my 40th year on this planet, I received a Barbie Doll from my daughter. I never bought her one in my joyless, righteous, feminist young mother avatar. I may ... Read More


Our roads as mirrors of our lack of civic sense

India, Sept. 21 -- Nobody cares for the feelings of a road. With each pothole on the highways, every single traffic jam in the city, and every has-been trail-like shadow in the hills, a road gets curs... Read More


Our roads as mirrors of our lack of civic sense

India, Sept. 20 -- Nobody cares for the feelings of a road. With each pothole on the highways, every single traffic jam in the city, and every has-been trail-like shadow in the hills, a road gets curs... Read More


Is charity the opium of the privileged?

India, Sept. 14 -- This author needed a breakdown in a small Pennsylvania town earlier this year when the world was still in the throes of New Year's festivities. Some epiphanies can only occur when o... Read More


Giorgio Armani's secret code of Fashion

India, Sept. 7 -- "I put on the clothes, I put on the shoes, and I can just be him. And he does what he's gotta do." For forty-five years, American Gigolo has been inspiring men to do what they gotta... Read More


How the wedding market perpetuates dowry culture

India, Aug. 30 -- If Donald Trump has tariffs, India has weddings. The upcoming wedding season bodes well for the Indian economy, with the wedding industry pegged at $130 billion. Government data sugg... Read More


Cancel me at your own risk

India, Aug. 24 -- "You can't be cancelled if you haven't signed up. Don't sign up." Hollywood actor Denzel Washington's advice sounds like the gospel, but does it really work in real life? Whether a ... Read More


India's fashion industry is starved for innovation

India, Aug. 10 -- In India, the Global North and, before that, Eurocentrism have been convenient pegs to hang every failure to innovate or revolutionise. We haven't got our due only because the world ... Read More