NORMALISE DIALOGUES ABOUT LGBTQ+: ANSHUMAN JHA

May 14, 2021

NEW DELHI: A gay man and a lesbian woman take a road trip from Delhi to McLeodganj and figure out the real meaning of friendship and love. This is the plot of Anshuman Jha’s latest release, Hum Bhi Akele Tum Bhi Akele, co-starring Zareen Khan. Jha, who has also turned...

Kampai is recreating sakura season in Delhi

April 24, 2021

It’s that time of the year again—cherry blossoms are blooming across the globe and social media is flooded with photos. Since catching a quick flight to Tokyo to see the sight for ourselves is out of the question this year, Kampai is here to help us usher in spring (or...

Of youthful audacity and Kolkata’s heritage

April 23, 2021

Set in Kolkata, Sutapa Basu’s The Cursed Inheritance is a mystery novel which tells its readers that the past and the present can never be separated, no matter how hard one tries. In an interview with The Sunday Guardian, the author explains what draws her to explore historical elements in...

How to survive in a big fat Indian family business

April 16, 2021

In her new book, Priyanka Gupta Zielinski shares a five-point toolkit to encourage younger generations wishing to enter their family businesses. In an interview with The Sunday Guardian, Priyanka Gupta Zielinski, the executive director of MPIL Steel Structures Ltd and author of The Ultimate Family Business Survival Guide, shared her...

DIAL 99 99 FOR DRAMA: EXPERIENCING THEATRE ON TELEPHONE

March 27, 2021

NEW DELHI: This is not a regular phone call, you are duly informed before the performance begins. And it, in fact, isn’t, because when you dial in the number for Lifeline 99 99, you are signing up for an interactive theatre experience on the phone, the first of its kind...

India can never turn eyes away from racism: Jaishankar on Oxford row

March 16, 2021

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Monday that India can “never turn away its eyes from racism” and will “champion the fight against it” after the issue of Oxford University student Rashmi Samant was brought up by a BJP MP in Parliament. Twenty-two-year-old Samant, a president-elect for the students’...

CALLER ON BBC LIVE RADIO SHOW ABUSES PM MODI’S MOTHER, CAUSES OUTRAGE

March 4, 2021

BBC Asian Network’s “Big Debate” drew massive flak and caused outrage across social media after a clip of a caller using a misogynistic slur for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother on the show surfaced on Twitter. A speaker who had dialled in for an episode of the live radio show,...

India saved itself with a timely lockdown, travel restrictions: Study

March 3, 2021

On 16 September 2020, India had recorded 97,859 cases of Covid-19, the highest single-day number since the beginning of the pandemic. As cases had risen rapidly and the country had been put under one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, critics had viewed the restrictions with suspicion. However, since...

Leadership lessons from a pandemic

February 26, 2021

It is no secret that businesses went through a hard time during the unprecedented crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic last year. But as the vaccines bring hope in 2021 and companies begin to regain their balance, there is much to learn from what top industry leaders did to stay afloat...

AN EMPOWERING POST-ME TOO NOVEL ABOUT WOMEN SPEAKING UP

February 19, 2021

Radhika Swarup’s Civil Lines brings together several topical issues and sends out an important message in the wake of the MeToo movement. When Maya and Siya Sharma start the monthly magazine The Satirist out of their crumbling residence in Civil Lines, they not only resurrect their late mother’s dream but...