- 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,…
- It’s strange, but I water my community roots not at the Mumbai font, but at a tiny stream a subcontinent’s breadth away. Maybe not so strange. After all, Calcutta was where I was born as…
- We are a uri-nation with pissiparous tendencies. Ask any wall in any public space. But airspace and the lap of co-passengers should be more sacrosanct. No surprise then at the incontinent indignation over the indiscretion…
- I recently had my birthday. Or to use the more apposite Indian-English, my ‘happy birthday’. It’s this ‘happy’ thing I find difficult internalising as a middle-aged man. To explain, I will refer to one of…
- Is the bro code in danger of going woke on us? Not on our watch, say Indians! While the jaws of the world went slack upon reading leaked snatches from Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir baldly…
- Hark the pricey Front Page sings Ad-ver-tising deluxe things. Soaring price, cash payment mu-ust. Buyers scalped, and ground to dust. Marble lobby, golf course lu-ush Potties with Italian flush. Villas, pools and towers so h-igh…
- 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,…
- 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…