Stand at ease!

Nobody’s perfect. Body shape should stop being a yardstick to judge people as it affects self-esteem What’s a perfect body shape? A notion that keeps changing with time, depending on the cultural context. There are diverse body types and therefore, varied definitions of an ideal body. And no one body type can claim monopoly on […]

Monthly hiccups

A Netflix documentary nominated for the Oscars recorded the attitudes of Hapur girls, among others, towards menstruation “We feel shy, we can’t say it.” This is the opening scene of Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary — Period. End of Sentence — directed by Rayka Zehtabchi. The teenaged girls of Hapur district, in this scene, feel uncomfortable in […]

Education without bias

In a recent protest rally in the Capital, hundreds of children and activists raised their voice for free and equal education. A system where every student gets the same opportunities For a mid-February day, the blazing sun was not unusual, not for Delhi. For the hundreds marching from Sansad Marg — where they had earlier […]

Delhi’s towering inferno

Delhi’s deadliest fire since 1999 killed 17 people. Was the incident at Hotel Arpit Palace a disaster waiting to happen? Animesh (name changed), an IT professional from Kolkata, was visiting Delhi for the first time. His friend recommended he stay at the swanky Hotel Arpit Palace, so Animesh reserved a room. In the early hours […]

To be or not to be…

…in a government job, that is the question I grapple with every time I have to meet a bureaucrat Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair… In seventy-seven and sixty-nine, revolution was in the air… I was born too late, into a world that doesn’t care Oh I wish […]

Delicacies from Iran

The iconic seven-kitchen restaurant at DLF Emporio, Vasant Kunj, now has another cuisine on its menu. The flavours of Iran include a lot of seafood, besides the popular chicken and lamb Think Iran and to my mind comes the movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: cabanas, sheer curtains and delightful platters. Well, the […]

Merchant of Venus

This is the story of an American merchant banker’s intimacy with a sadhu in Haridwar. She calls their togetherness ‘Krishna-lila’ Georgia (name changed) is a merchant banker in her late 30s who lives in the US, in New York to be precise. She made so much money in the first five years of her career […]

Your belly is targeted to get digital ads

Good journalism needs to dissect bad science Do you want to burn those pesky belly fat? According to NDTV, fruits, tulsi tea, juices, nuts, homemade drinks, laughing, NDTV special belly-shrinking citrusy tea, seeds, hung curd, ghee, vegetables, quinoa, cumin, carbon dioxide, chicken soup, milk, raw garlic, egg and frankly almost anything left in your kitchen […]