- Winter has swallowed the sun and the sky is the colour of stubbed-out ash. If that is not gloomy enough, then I read some statistics and come to a profoundly depressing truth: Human beings are…
- 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,…
- Around a year ago, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for a joke at his wife Jada Pinket Smith, a joke that ironically Will had initially laughed at. Still, like all husbands dreading…
- Bread is said to be the staff of life. And, by that token, the Indian thali is very well-staffed indeed. In Hindustani, roti is the generic term for all kinds of bread, and India plays…
- The British Broadcasting Corporation – the BBC – earned itself the nickname of ‘Auntie Beeb’ because, like a good, old-fashioned Auntieji she knew what was best for everyone, and took pride in her ‘high standards’….
- Taking offence is a fulltime job. And reaching far into the past to whitewash – or is it blackwash? – what is considered inappropriate today is a new-age makeup trick. While we go about giving…
- The acclaimed author of children’s books, Roald Dahl, fell foul of PC. The initials stand not for P Chidambaram, or Priyanka Chopra, but a force more formidable than both of those public personages put together:…
- New settlers in Goa begin to slur within hours. Now don’t drink neat from the bottle of jejune assumptions. The lurching speech is caused by waves of Portuguese and Konkani names that froth like an…
- A note of warning is doing the rounds of social media and the gossiping grapevine, a warning about currency notes of high denomination. One rumour concerns Rs 500 notes, many of which are believed to…
- ‘I am thrilled’ was the statutory gush of beauty queens just before they launched into their burning desire to remove world poverty. Now, from uncrowned heads downwards it’s all about being ‘trilled’ over the imminence…
- For all those who are Michelangelo and Picasso with lettuce and olives, taking salad and its dressing to art gallery orbit, it’s routine to sniff a carrot and break down its ancestry and sexual orientation….
- Should Gautam Adani take a business tip from Vallabh, an amiable young man who owns and runs a small eatery in Panjim, Goa? In 1988 Gautam Adani founded Adani Enterprises which, in the span of…
- Welcome back for another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look into the happenings in the Imgur community. We’ll cover community events, heartwarming stories, unique creations,…
- Howdy, Imgurians! Welcome to 2023. 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…
- The 2023 Art Crawl came to a close on Monday January 30th, and with thousands of entries to consider, our judges had their work cut out for them. Before we…
- Welcome back for another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look into the happenings in the Imgur community. We’ll cover community events, heartwarming stories, unique creations,…
- Welcome back for another edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look into the happenings in the Imgur community. We’ll cover community events, heartwarming stories, unique creations,…
- Welcome back for the twenty-third edition of In Case You Missed It, our monthly retrospective look at the fun and noteworthy happenings in the Imgur community. We’ll cover community events,…
- Welcome back to In Case You Missed It, our monthly roundup of all the neat goings on that have been happening in the Imgur community. We’ll cover highlights from Imgurians,…
- Welcome back to In Case You Missed It, Issue number TWO ONE. PARTY TIME! For the uninitiated, ICYMI is our monthly retrospective recap of the haps in the Imgur Community,…
- 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,…