- Sweet. The word is often used as a barometer for likeability. As in, ‘Oh she is so nice, so sweet!’ The dictionary also considers it as a synonym for likeable. Along with affable, amiable and…
- Hurtling over the compound wall, a yellow ball lands in the garden as I am strolling with my sister-in-law. It is followed by a gangly boy in swift pursuit. I sprint to the hedge, bend…
- 9am: Coffee in hand, I sit in the balcony trying to analyse the cognitive dissonance that led to the moment when Will Smith, in the pursuit of his wife’s happiness, clambered onto the stage and…
- This scam hinged on ten beers and a bottle of gin ordered on the phone from our regular wine shop. Being long-standing customers, we had an arrangement that bills would be settled monthly. One month,…
- 11am Preparations are rife for Women’s Day. There are events and discussions lined up. More than feeling like an empowered woman though, I have started feeling like Ganpati bappa, who is put on a dais,…
- I want you to be my carrot and my turnip Taste of ice apples in spring and watermelon in summer I want to stir you into a cup like crystalline molecules sweetening my tea Use…
- The word ‘loss’ is clumsy. Adequate for weight, investments and clothes that don’t come back from the dhobi. It doesn’t convey the decaying of hope, of holes that emerge within your mind, like you are…
- This is the time of year I send my wish-list off to Santa. But this practice slowly came to a halt as it’s been quite a few years since I last had faith in roly-poly,…
- Up on the round table, the birthday girl was dancing to ‘Kala Chashma’. She suddenly bent down to pick up a bottle of mineral water set out for guests and began pouring it on herself….
- It’s an anaconda of a voice. Jaws wide open, she draws you in. Octave by octave you surrender, cradled within a network of vocal cords. When you hear Adele performing, ‘Easy on Me,’ the phantom…
- It began with ‘laughter’. Adding an ‘s’ at the beginning of the word, turned it into distinctly unfunny ‘slaughter’. So, I started making a list of these single-letter metamorphoses – saving it for a rainy…
- If one party stages a protest; the other is sure to dismiss it as natak-bazi. Congress workers put up a ‘Full House’ board outside the ED office where Rahul Gandhi was summoned in the National…
- This April was unlike any other. As Covid receded, the mayhem of a new school session loomed large – the real school, not a dining table or the bedroom. It was greeted with wildly mixed…
- Skin is in. Expose it, and you are hot. Consume it, and you are cool. The infallibly readable Sandip Roy informs us that Cascara, brewed from the skin of coffee berries, is what cafe society…
- How great it must be to be Elon Musk. While most of us, when dealt with bad service, can only shout impotently into the phone, ‘I want to speak to your manager,’ he can simply…
- For the longest time Indians sang only about the theft of hearts: Chura ke dil mera, Dil chori sada ho gaya etc. Which involved sub-robberies, like that of sleep – Neend churayi meri – or…
- In 1993 Bunny and I were in St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, built by Peter the Great and lauded as the ‘Venice of the North’ because of its Italianate architecture designed by Domenico Trezzini…
- ‘Headmistress’ is the latest victim of official/ officious morality. Maharashtra’s education officer, Ravindra Katolkar, recently ordered it replaced with ‘headmaster’ regardless of gender since that’s the only term recognised by the rule book. He cited…
- Costly combos: Supposedly cost-cutting package deals can give you more than what you bargained for 😊Buying some instant coffee for me online, Bunny came across an economic anomaly. If she bought one packet of the product it would cost x rupees. If she bought 2 packets, the cost would be…
- These hardy perennials of public gardens cannot be uprooted. Good. Romance shouldn’t become woe-mance. Take these tales from two cities. Mumbai’s Victoria Terminus is now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Kolkata’s as-unmissable Victoria Memorial retains its…
- Welcome back for another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look at all the amazing happenings in the Imgur community. We’ll cover highlights from Imgurians, heartwarming…
- Welcome back for another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective roundup of community moments you may have missed. We’ll cover highlights from Imgurians, heartwarming stories, crafty…
- Welcome back to In Case You Missed It, our monthly roundup of neat goings-on and notable moments from the Imgur community. We’ll cover a few events, heartwarming stories, super neat…
- Howdy, Imgurians! Welcome to 2022. We’re back with another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look at the happenings in the Imgur Community. As always, we’ll…
- In January we wrapped up the 2022 Art Crawl and announced the winners as decided by our judges. A few weeks ago we had the chance to sit down and…
- What an awe-inspiring week we’ve had. The 2022 Art Crawl came to a close on Tuesday, and with over 4,000 submissions, it’s safe to say that the artists of Imgur…
- Imgur is home to amazing creators, contributors, and talented people galore. Today’s post showcases just a few of those excellent Imgurians to get to know better and add to your…
- Ahoy, Imgurians! Team Imgur here to bring you some news about the business side of Imgur happenings. Tradition is tradition, so as is customary, we’ll share the final product first:…
- Wow! What a two weeks it has been. Thousands of pets have battled it out across five categories to make this the BIGGEST PET SHOW EVER. 8,709 entries were submitted…
- Cast your mind back ten years, it’s any average Thursday in 2011. Space Shuttle Endeavor had just landed for the final time, Rolling in the Deep was blasting on your…