"They tell me that good Indian girls shouldn’t be writing books like mine," says bestselling author Ira Trivedi, as she talks about the conservatives and members of khap panchayats who have complained against and threatened to ban her latest book India in Love. To gauge the extent
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
The opinions that were gathered by newspapers when Ramanand Sagar’s T.V. serial on the Ramayana ended revealed what an extraordinary media success it had been. The show’s popularity reached out across religions, castes, occupations, and languages. Was this because it was an emotion-filled story narrated in the
The idea of the “Grand Mnemonic” derived from The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol by Laird Scranton.
Mumbai-based electro-pop/rock outfit Laxmi Bomb released their debut E.P. last month. Titled Hॐ, it features all of four tracks and is available for download here. We caught up with vocalist Keegan Pereira for a quick chat about the E.P. and their very first music video. Read on
In their almost nine years of existence as electro-rock act Shaa'ir + Func, Monica Dogra and Randolph Correia have seen their share of ups and downs: they have released three albums together, won a number of awards, been through various line-up changes, and performed at pubs, colleges, and music
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
In India, entire childhoods are spent listening to stories of Rama, Krishna, Hanuman, and Draupadi. Each night, children climb into their beds, nestling up against their grandparents, demanding a retelling of the adventures of their favourite religious heroes. Clearly, we are a society obsessed with its mythologies. John Jackson'
Our tale begins in colonial India, where a brilliant storyteller becomes a cunning dubashi, a mateen becomes an ansari with a pompously glorified and contorted past, and a kathua---Kalaam---falsely ousted from his yarn-weaving profession, discovers a rare talent for cooking. Vikram Nair's Gone with the Vindaloo (Purchase) Vikram
"Algomantra" coined by Rohit Gupta.
Stalked: Scars in Time & Space is an essay of black-and-white photographs by Mumbai-based filmmaker Aishwarya Arumbakkam that aims to portray the violation, humiliation, and trauma experienced by victims of stalking; to encourage understanding and dialogue about the same. Stalked: Scars in Time & Space will be exhibited at Atta