Essays

MANU JOSEPH’S ‘DECOUPLED’ REVIEWS THE CRITIC

Characters are revived in each episode and the central predicament of the separating couple lives on even as the story makes excursions into Indian political life.

More Misses than Hits: “The Chair” on Cancel Culture

“The show attacks a bunch of little-over-teenage youths who really are the least of cancel culture’s problems, but are the most fashionable to attack.”

‘The Half of It’ and the Language of Love

Alice Wu’s second feature film is about finding the right words.

Lost and Found: A Tale of Goenchi Feni

Capturing the process of making traditional cashew feni in Goa

My Sustainable Wanderlust

What cycling through a never-ending pandemic taught me about eco-travel

The Little Women of A New Age

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s nineteenth-century novel is still both radical and relevant.

On Grief and Mortality

“As a woman of science, my mother is relentless in her search for answers. Why must we die? If we are to die, why do we ever live? Who designed this system?”

D.H. LAWRENCE, ONE OF OUR OWN

“But the coal miner’s son was certainly not a half-wit; he never looked back at the past, as Woolf accuses him, for his own good.”

‘Gutawa Khich’ by Gia Singh Arora

"Filming ma while cooking in Falmouth, UK." A short film by Gia Singh Arora

Juice: On Indian Dinners Where Families (Mistr)eat Together

Neeraj Ghaywan’s short film unflinchingly sheds light on everyday misogyny through an intimate, Indian family get-together.
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