It’s that time of the year again! A time when we look back at the year and draw up a mental balance sheet of sorts — to see what went well for us and what didn’t. …

Review – Lesser lives- Stories of Domestic Servants in India If you have lived in a relatively upscale apartment in any big city in India in the last 2 years, chances are that you were privy to heated debates on whatsapp groups, on the entry of house-help during Covid times…

We look at our teenage years with nostalgia and are mostly overcome by “ah to be young again”feeling. For the 90s kids like me,that phase was not just special but the appropriate word would be “magical”. The 90s were a tumultuous times in the history of independent India. Growing up…

Disclaimer: I’ve never been an entrepreneur, never lived in Delhi, never been part of any high society (let alone Delhi high society). In addition, I’ve never called myself a feminist and have never been a student of sociology. Yet, I ramble on. Also spoiler alert: Read if you have watched…

If you are a current events enthusiast like me, you’ve had a busy week. Unless you were under a rock or deliberately locked yourself out, you would’ve heard a lot of jargon bandied around. Now that Abhinandan is back(almost) it may be a good time to see how this played…

‘Dance of democracy’, ‘Festival of democracy’- are some of the sobriquets used for elections in India. Even as this round reaches fever pitch and hopefuls begin to throw their hat into the ring, the very proactive RWAs around my neighbourhood are making an all-out effort to get people to meet…

As the 2019 election season approaches, we have seen much debate around the topic of jobs. We’ve had much mud slinging done over data around jobs with even some members of the NSC resigning apparently in protest against the government not publishing the data. The best estimates show that India…

The nature of the State is such that it is very good at certain things and not so good at others. Revenue mobilization and use of force to maintain law and order are supposed to be functions that a State excels at. The State mobilizes revenue through taxes- direct and…

Light weekend banter with my girl gang got us discussing a sort of “rite of passage” status that going to the neighbourhood grocery store has acquired amongst pre teens of the apartment complex. Even my fairly liberal, woke friends said that it is “different for girls” because of all the…