Tiffin

A New Era for Women’s Cricket or a Poor Sequel?

The ongoing Women’s Premier League shows that creating a tournament with a high standard of competition has taken a backseat as gimmickry takes over cricket.…
▶22-Mar-2023
Priyansh

Of Speech and Song in the Shadow of Krishna

“Vrindavan devotee publics seem to have relegated desire and descended fully into the sadness of Radha.”
▶20-Feb-2023
Atreyee Majumder

Humans and Wildlife at the Forest's Edge

Questions of human-wildlife coexistence are invariably also questions of development. A spar between villagers and foresters over trapping a leopard outside a…
▶13-Feb-2023
Rekha Warrier

Hockey World Cup 2023: An Enthusiastic Novice at Bhubaneshwar

If you know little of hockey and you watch an international game with a group of spectators who know just as little, it is a special experience especially when…
▶24-Jan-2023
Kalyani Raghunathan

The Civil Servant’s New Bible: How to cook a DOSA

When the political times change, the civil servants learn to adapt. In the Old Testament the rule was to do nothing; in the new you learn to cook (not fry) a…
▶20-Dec-2022
Alok Sheel

The Indian Chess Spring and the Sagar Shah Phenomenon

A YouTube channel with more than a million followers is participating in the current surge in competitiveness of Indian chess. Chessbase India has a host,…
▶12-Dec-2022
Arvind Subramanian

Bulldog Drummond and Britain’s Hour of Peril

The (erstwhile) Empire is under threat and the old heroes are recruited once more to vanquish the enemy. Their bravery is not to be questioned but there is a…
▶23-Nov-2022
S. Unian Sambar

Play. Stop. Rewind. Record.

"We were, in many ways, coached into listening—casually, closely, intimately, itinerantly—by the cassette tape. It made sound available to us beyond…
▶02-Oct-2022
Usha Raman

Making a Living in Urban India: A Photo Essay

A photo essay on the struggles of Indians in cities and towns for existence and dignity as they negotiate their lives every day.
▶16-Sep-2022
Zaheer Baber

Sahir Ludhianvi's Song for a 'New India': Circa 2022

Sahir's lyrics for the Hindi film 'Didi' (1959) continue to have great contemporary relevance.
▶27-Jul-2022
Alok Sheel

Writers, Literatures, and Lessons from the Margins

Conversations between writers across India reveal similar processes of marginalisation spanning multiple communities. These insights offer ways for mutually…
▶05-Jul-2022
Uddipana Goswami

Talking Film Icons, Understanding Society

What can social science researchers discover if they stepped out of rigid frameworks of understanding deprivation and asked ‘subjects’ about their joys and…
▶04-May-2022
Shrayana Bhattacharya