Culture

Being Gen Z isn’t a free pass to do anything

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - August 21, 2026

In the high-altitude, strategically sensitive terrain of Ladakh, near the Minimarg checkpoint on the Kargil route, a viral video captured something far more disturbing...

How soft power flipped the rules of global influence

Anoushka Pathak - July 5, 2026

In September 2021, BTS stood before the United Nations General Assembly—not as entertainers invited to perform, but as representatives of a generation. Their appearance...

The ‘Rs 370 biryani’ remark reveals why modern relationships are failing

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - June 11, 2026

What is the least a man should hope for after a date? A memorable conversation? A few genuine laughs? The possibility that the girl...

Chicken mandi poster featuring Lord Krishna was not a ‘designer’s mistake’

S Shiva - April 21, 2026

I'm sorry that I'm late in telling you this, but this is what happens when you don't know a language. At the outset, I...

Chiraiya shows something that doesn’t exist

Kaushlesh Rai - April 4, 2026

Sorry to the fans of Chiraiya, but what you have been told is a lie. To those who don’t know, at the end of...

The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now

Uday Bhadoriya - March 26, 2026

This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking...

Why Raulane’s takeover by content creators must concern us

Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi - March 16, 2026

Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show. In November 2025, these words, paired with mesmerising photographs, flooded timelines across Instagram, X...

De-Macaulayising the mind: Rajaji, the NEP and Bharat’s structural reorientation

Rudraksh Aneja And Aastha Gupta - March 13, 2026

In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation...

Gone are the freedoms of self-sufficiency, the peace of self-dependence

Pankaj Saxena - February 2, 2026

Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside....

Your gateway to revisiting oral traditions

Aditya Gupta - January 13, 2026

Reimagining the Myths of Himalayan Birds

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