An Ode to Anonymous Organ Donors — “Would be a big help if you could plug NKDO in your social media posts to raise some awareness for the cause.” “Are you kidding? That’s the least I could do.” So, here I am. Friends who know me well know that I do not wear my emotions on my…

All was not lost at The Oval — To some folks, Test Match cricket is just an insipid snooze-fest — five days of nothingness, with matches potentially ending in a draw, sporadically disrupted by rain delays and filled with fielding positions that sound more like an insult than a strategy. Some of these fielding positions include the not-so-grandly…

All Access AR Rahman — During peak COVID period, for about a year or two, the pandemic had shut down pretty much everything. We were all forced to adjust our entertainment experiences for the greater good — no live concerts, no live theater shows, and no movies. Those of us who enjoy going to live…

And the magic of bringing comic characters alive — Zoya Akhtar’s adaptation of the Riverdale narrative universe into an Indian setting may seem like another example of brand colonization, but it’s much more than that. …

Spotify Wrapped and The Unraveling of Our Minds — Your Spotify Wrapped arrives on your screen like a digital mirror, but what if it instead of reflecting the sophisticated high-brow music connoisseur, consuming mostly niche and obscure musicians like you believe yourself to be, it just throws back the image of a person who has been bopping along to…

How the Ahmedabad crowd ruined the World Cup Final atmosphere — In the grand spectacle that was the ICC Cricket World Cup Final between India and Australia at the Ahmedabad Cricket Stadium earlier today, one thing stood out more than the breathtaking cricket skills displayed on the field (more so by Australians but that’s beside the point)— the unsportsmanlike behavior of…

Pandya’s ankletastrophe and Shami’s seam symphony — In an unfortunate twist of foot..err…fate, Hardik Pandya’s ankle has perhaps now become the unsung hero of India’s cricketing campaign at the 2023 ICC World Cup. Who would have thought that a misstep in a World Cup match against Bangladesh would set off a chain of events that would leave…

And The Fury Road — “I shattered my fibula. So that one I think was the first snap I heard. It was snapped in half, but it also shattered through the bone. There was a bit of a chip off the tibia as well [and] I ruptured all the ligaments on top of my foot…

It’s long. It’s epic. It’s the bloody birth of America. — “In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-­jump-­ups and spring beauties and little bluets. The Osage writer John Joseph Mathews observed that the galaxy of petals makes it look as if the ‘gods had left…