New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- It's 10am and Kumudha, whom everyone calls Kumudha Ma, is at the Dry Waste Collection Centre (DWCC) in the JP Nagar area of south Bengaluru, separating bundles of old clothes fro... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- The search for that perfect evening hangout, where the music is low and the vibe high, never ends. Speaking for Bengaluru, you'd think this would be easy-there seems to be a new ... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- A man and a woman stand near the doors of a local train, waiting to get off. The woman is 40, the man in his late 20s. They are former colleagues from the newsroom of a mainstrea... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- The way we use the internet has changed completely since generative AI became mainstream. Where we would previously put a keyword-based query into a search box, we now seek more c... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- We eat century eggs standing in the alleyway next to a building that holds a warren of individual one-room homes-much like Mumbai's chawls, though these only occupy the ground flo... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- As the lights dim and the trailers start rolling, you sink into your seat, in complete communion with the screen. It's a focus and a withdrawal rarely achieved in any other setti... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- In his preface to the The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, the first volume of a planned series of speculative fiction anthologies by Westland Books, editor Gautam Bhatia admits ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- Pan Pasand ice cream. Cadbury's Fruit & Nut granola bhel. Restaurants named, unironically, "Nostalgia XYZ" (insert name of a city people have escaped because it was unliveable).... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Food discourse has gotten out of hand. Protein bros name and shame people for their carb-laden plates, nutritionists talk about plant-based diets with cultish fervour, chefs can'... Read More