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Culture Couch

How Dracula Became the Freshest Internet Phenomenon

Pritha Deshpande -
If I were to tell you that in May of 2022 the #1 trending topic on social media for two weeks straight has been...
Essays

Kalkattewali: The Goddess and Her City

Souraja Chakraborty -
A temple in the northern part of Kolkata, the Thanthania Kalibari has a marble slab, on which “Shankar’er hridoy majhe, Kali biraje,” (Kali reigns...
Culture Couch

Queen Victoria, ‘Consumption’ and Goth Culture

Harshit Verma -
The first thing that many will visualise upon the mention of ‘Goth’ is the mohawk, black lace, powdered faces, spikes and metal on ‘uncivilised’...
Reflections

On The Pursuit of a Room of One’s Own

Sneha Roychoudhury -
“Woolf is right. Women need a room. Women need floors to kick, walls to beat, air to scream into or they will wind up dead.”
Reflections

Walking

Shanna Jain -
“Is the neck of my top too low, are my breasts moving a lot, is there a bike ready to knock me down, are the neighbours noticing me too much?"
Essays

83 and Lessons on Sporting Victories

Sneha Roychoudhury -
Kabir Khan’s 83 showcases how a record of the past responds to the cultural context of the present.
Ends of the Earth

Coral Warriors: Keeping Corals from Losing their Colour

Anoop Keshari -
An Initiative to understand the recurrent mass bleaching of corals and make diving accessible.
Armchair Arbiters

Sir: Of Domestic Workers Who Risk Dreaming And Falling In Love

Saumya Singh -
Rohena Gera’s ‘Sir’, while subverting the popular portrayal of domestic workers in Indian Cinema, is authentic to the core.
Essays

On Reboots, Reunions and Manufactured Nostalgia

Devika Goswami -
“As a show or movie completes its run, viewers get to imagine the ending they like best. Reboots risk sinking this imagined ending and the franchise with it.”
Armchair Arbiters

MANU JOSEPH’S ‘DECOUPLED’ REVIEWS THE CRITIC

Joseph Antony -
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.
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