Banu Mushtaq’s 2025 International Booker Prize-acclaimed anthology “Heart Lamp” narrates the stories of Muslim women in their joys, sorrows, struggles, miseries, and all things in between. Mushtaq is ...

It has been a while since 2024 is over–and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we tend to reflect on how our previous year was—and what we wish the next year to be: ...

It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on life and my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD. It’s been over a year since I started my PhD ...

And then, there is Manuel’s sister, who is settled in New Zealand and visits them in India. The doctor character (played by Siddharth Bharathan) is the funniest and most relatable. Despite all the ...

Dinjith Ayyathan’s ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’, a 2024 Malayalam thriller, enmeshes emotions, familial relations, and mystery in his storytelling. Monikered after Ramayana’s Kishkindha Kaandam, where Lord ...

Unlike what our politicians tell us about ‘unity in diversity’, Mehta suggests that we are “diverse in our unities” which has allowed “each of us to imagine the connection with the others in his/her ...

Even the educated ones, the educated ones mainly, follow these dictums religiously. And so, when I watched Jeo Baby’s directional 2021 Malayalam -language movie “The Great Indian Kitchen”, I felt a ...

‘Conclave’ is a political thriller that revolves around papal elections, which are woven together with a tinge of ambition, intrigue, envy, and mystery—keeping you at the edge of your seat. The story ...

DeepSeek and the Politics of Knowledge It seems a new AI player was in town. Founded two years ago, in 2023, the Chinese AI company DeepSeek had already achieved what would have seemed almost ...

Traffic signals halt our movement and absorb us into the world for a moment. Just as we wait for signals to start blinking, we feel, observe, smell, rationalise, envy, smile, and smirk all at once or ...

Murder Mindfully, two seemingly opposite words strung together, makes for a good TV story. At one end, there is a murder; at the other, there is mindfulness—a sense of calm one craves but struggles ...