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Removing strays has never worked and never will, as these cities show

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Abodh Aras recalls an incident from 15 years ago when a posh Mumbai club, which had around 38 sterilised stray dogs in its grounds, got rid of them illegally overnight. No one kn... Read More


Lal Chand Bisu of Kuku FM believes in pumping up the volume

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Preparing for this meeting with Lal Chand Bisu, co-founder of digital entertainment company Kuku FM, I started watching a popular microdrama on Kuku TV, an app launched by the co... Read More


Let's hear it for the new music bars

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Akhila Srinivas recalls that the two things she associated with Bengaluru during her college days were beer and music. In the 1980s and 1990s, long before pub culture became mains... Read More


In Katabasis, R.F. Kuang serves dark academia as literal hell

New Delhi, July 27 -- Dark academia is a sub-genre in fantasy fiction, often involving schools of magic, secret societies and evil experiments in the backdrop of a scholarly environment. But the darke... Read More


Journalists don't 'collaborate', influencers do

New Delhi, July 27 -- "Can we set a date for the collaboration?" a public relations executive asked me recently about fixing an interview slot with a business leader they were representing. Something ... Read More


Meet the footpath warriors of Bengaluru

New Delhi, July 13 -- You could call it a double peak Bengaluru moment, combining as it did two of the city's abiding passions-technology and citizen activism. Early in May, around 20 people assembled... Read More


Zarna Garg's memoir: The super-sad story of an immigrant comedian

New Delhi, June 29 -- It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you are a female American comedian of any standing, you must write a memoir. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have written best-selling one... Read More


Why Gen Z loves fake weddings

New Delhi, June 27 -- The world may be breathlessly watching all the drama surrounding the Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sanchez wedding in Venice, but in India, a new trend is unfolding: the non-wedding wedding ... Read More


Hemamalini Maiya of MTR Restaurants sees herself as a custodian of stories

New Delhi, June 21 -- You can't imagine it ever being quiet or empty, but on a weekday afternoon, the 100-year-old MTR Restaurant near Bengaluru's Lalbagh is especially loud and lively. Outside the st... Read More


Finding the music that you love

New Delhi, May 25 -- It is a visual that will stay with me for a long time: An abandoned music store, overgrown with plants and weeds, in the middle of a once beautiful and now ruined city; and at the... Read More