Animated female figures in video games and movies are still being objectified, to appease the male gaze. How long will women just cringe and bear it, as if time stands still? In November 2017, Warner Brothers came out with a movie based on DC’s comic book series Justice League. The costumes for the women were […]

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The scrapping of Section 377 is a huge victory for the LGBTQA+ community. their voices have been heard On Thursday morning, India woke up to one of the most historic, pragmatic verdicts the country’s apex court ever passed. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra unanimously struck down the […]

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Medical colleges can no longer shut the door on students with certain types of disability, as the Medical Council of India sought to do. The High Court has upheld their rights In August this year, four aspiring medical students with low vision, hearing impairments, specific learning disabilities and disabilities to do with blood disorder were […]

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India is infamous for its food wastage. Delhi restaurants are trying to stop the criminal waste of food that could feed hungry people “Wastage of food is unfortunate. It is a justice against the poor.” -Prime Minister Narendra Modi, (Mann ki Baat) Given the fact that India is routinely churning out four times the waste […]

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Yachts have been Varsha Gautham’s vessel of choice since she was six. Now she’s in the team trying to bring laurels for India from Jakarta Unlike most other millennials, Varsha Gautham, possibly unbeknownst to herself, had already begun following her dream at the age of six. Soon after she moved to Chennai from Coimbatore with […]

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Navroz, or the Parsi New Year, was celebrated quietly on August 17, the day all attention was on Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s last rites. That’s how Delhi’s tiny minorities always celebrate their festivals, away from the public eye With Hinduism, Islam and Christianity constantly dominating the conversation about religion, the other religious communities that have thrived […]

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Delhi is not just dancing to Indian tunes anymore, it’s dancing to them all. Contemporary dance studios in every neighbourhood are helping them have the time of their lives That’s what I love about dance. It makes you happy, truly happy. — Debbie Reynolds DANCERS IN Delhi have been branching out from Indian classical forms […]

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“He always came across as someone very normal, and humane—but also one who never swayed from his ideologies.” This is what Shakti Sinha said of his friend and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, minutes before Vajpayee passed away. Sinha, currently the director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, was more than glad to […]

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