The Complicated History of Gay Pride, and Why Violence Still Reigns Supreme
Many countries around the world are celebrating Pride Month this June. Gay pride’s history spans back to 1969, where 200 patrons resisted arrest and rioted at the Stonewall bar in New York City. By the time Britain decriminalized in 1969,…
Are Matches really Made in Heaven?
To brown millennials, marriage has two meanings: a legal license to live with the love of your life, or the ticket to being partly socially acceptable. What it isn’t usually, though, is a congregation of hearts, a timeless bond and…
Leila tells a Timely Story of Segregation, Paranoia and Hope
Netflix’s latest Indian series, Leila, is based on a 2017 novel by Prayaag Akbar. Although the adaptation (helmed by director Deepa Mehta) is more political than the source material, it gets some timely ideas across about dystopian autocracies. Shalini Rizwan…
Could Cricket World Cup 2019 be any less exciting?
ICC Cricket World 2019 was inaugurated on the same day as the Europa League final where the two major London clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal faced each other. Naturally Londoners were more excited about the European football encounter than the opening…
Why India is a Favorite to Win the World Cup
Just like any other tournament, ICC CWC19 has India in its hot favorite list. England are unarguably the overwhelming favorites for this edition considering their unbelievable run at home in the last few years, but apart from them, no other…
ICC World Cup 2019: 10 Cricketing Nations Ready for Battle
This year’s cricket World Cup will be held in England and Wales. Ten teams will each play nine matches before the semi-finalists are decided. The last ICC World Cup was held jointly in New Zealand and Australia. The home teams…
Delhi Crime is a Charged, Feminist Take on a True Story, Raising Important Questions about Society
It’s hard to objectively judge a show that blends fact and fiction, especially when the facts stem from a case as harrowing as the 2012 Delhi rape case. It would be disingenuous of us to suggest that Delhi Crime is an entirely…
Memoirs of Inter-faith Festivities
Not every sense of belonging comes from adoption- try adaptation. It was in 2002, I was merely two and half years old, when I went on my first abroad trip to Uttar Pradesh, India. That year, Ramadhan and Diwali came…
Where is International Cricket Headed?
“Certainly not happy at all.” - This is what Sikandar Raza had to say after winning the man of the tournament award. Sikandar Raja is a Zimbabwean cricketer and receiver of the Man of the Tournament award of the World…
Netflix’s Ghoul: Guilt, Tyranny and the Monsters among Men
Quietly released on 24th August, Ghoul is a sharply directed, enigmatically paced political allegory, with a dash of supernatural spices thrown in for good measure. The little ads and marketing you may have seen for the miniseries suggests the reverse…
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