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Essays

From glowing reviews to zany histories

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.
Culture Couch

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

Sneha Roychoudhury -
“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.”
Armchair Arbiters

‘The Half of It’ and the Language of Love

Shanna Jain -
Alice Wu’s second feature film is about finding the right words.
Photo Essays

Lost and Found: A Tale of Goenchi Feni

Roshan R -
Capturing the process of making traditional cashew feni in Goa
Ends of the Earth

My Sustainable Wanderlust

Megha Varier -
What cycling through a never-ending pandemic taught me about eco-travel
Armchair Arbiters

The Little Women of A New Age

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

On Grief and Mortality

Abhishek Kar -
“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?”
Inkblots

D.H. LAWRENCE, ONE OF OUR OWN

Joseph Antony -
“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.”
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