- The pursuit of beauty has always been a royal pain in the posterior. I first made this discovery at seventeen when I wore a jersey dress embellished with gold safety pins in place of sequins,…
- Can I have Maggi tonight?’ my daughter asks me as she leaves for her math tuition. That yellow packet with its red logo has an inexplicable power over me. When I look at it, I…
- The first nudist colony in the world was reportedly based in Thane in 1891. At The Fellowship of the Naked Trust, clothes were not allowed, though you were kindly permitted to wear your eyeglasses and…
- Every fall, the Monarch butterfly begins a 3,000-mile journey to Mexico. In spring, Sandhill cranes converge in Nebraska. During summer, a large population of two-legged creatures clamber into metal tubes, change longitudes and latitudes, and…
- 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…
- There was an article in the Washington Post recently about the long-running feud between Argentina and Brazil fans in Bangladesh. This apparently amuses and befuddles their readers, as it would if they came to know…
- When LK Advani’s rath yatra rolled through his Gandhinagar constituency, Ahmedabad was declared ‘the experimental theatre of Hindutva’. However, in its 40+ years as my town-in-law, it has proved that it is actually the experimental…
- The Great Disruptor has set up more ventures than even the number of characters permitted in a tweet. This record has been extended to the controversies which have swamped his buying-up of Twitter Inc for…
- Everyone’s been banging on about ‘our’ man in ‘10 Browning Street’, but these are just our usual ‘insurance claims’ – ensuring that we are the first with everything, from nose jobs to the British PM’s…
- The launch of 5G hijacked the headlines because it is expected to improve the whole spectrum of our lives as speedily. It’s a Big deal. Really? The ‘G’ has been around forever. At the top…
- The PM’s sleek and spotted 72nd ‘budday’ present was a showstopper worthy of India’s own 75th. So, rather than the usual caterwauling let us wish Oban, Tbilisi, Siyaya, Sasha & Co a quick recovery from…
- The sandwich can be well-bread or working class, white, brown or almost black. Any which way, it’s always filling, whatever the filling. Let no toadie tell us that the Raj introduced this frog into our…
- Our present leaders are more obsessed with wiping out an earlier empire (along with a later dynasty) so, other than dismantling Macaulay’s ‘babu-creating’ education system, there’s some respite from the ‘Tharoorymple’ brand of Raj-bashing. However,…
- Say I am a Bollywood movie mogul. Life used to be great once. And that was when we would get phone calls from Dubai ka don, have to pay extortion money, and even then have…
- … comes in its original material and accompanied with due ceremony. The inspired idea of Har Ghar Tiranga has bowed to crass convenience. First they said it no longer has to be made only from…
- 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 peeks at the fun and interesting happenings in the Imgur community. We’re rapidly approaching the summer,…
- 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:…