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August 26, 2022

Is It Too Unreal To Be Real

Read Time: 2 minutes What’s the first thing that you see when you see yourself in front of the mirror? asks […]
January 28, 2022

“The pandemic has taken a toll on women…I felt the need to offer women a place, away from the male gaze, to come together and create as a community.”

Read Time: 4 minutes In Conversation with model turned artist, Tinu Verghis on creating a collaborative space for women artists in […]
August 28, 2021

Invading Into The Art Scene ,One Click At A Time

Read Time: 4 minutes How a chance encounter with an art mosaic in Paris turned writer Mihika Jindal into a geek […]
March 5, 2021

“I think there’s a Modi impersonator in India. I’m pretty sure he hates Modi.”

Read Time: 4 minutes Dalai Thapa spoke to Howard X to understand what it’s like to live life impersonating the Supreme […]
September 21, 2020

Inside India’s Mukbang Culture: A Lot of Eating and A Lot of Judgment

Read Time: 6 minutes Shaurya Thapa dives into the upcoming culture of consuming copious amounts of food while the world watches […]
July 21, 2020

The Electrofeminist Musician, Activist: Madame Gandhi

Read Time: 5 minutes Shaurya Thapa spoke to the wildly real voice repping brown culture in LA about representation and the […]
July 18, 2020

Everything You Need To Know About The Bhima Koregaon Case

Read Time: 3 minutes As 80-year-old, Varavara Rao, battles Covid-19, the Bhima Koregaon case is back in focus. Here is a […]
July 15, 2020

Telling the Truth: Duleshwar Tandi

Read Time: 4 minutes How an Odiya rapper is revealing facts about migrant workers and corruption that often miss the privileged […]
July 10, 2020

Free Press And Its Battle In India

Read Time: 6 minutes As questions about India’s free Press continue to make their presence felt, a dive into Indian history […]
June 4, 2020

The Saffronisation of Bharat Mata

Read Time: 9 minutes Shaurya Thapa on how a symbol of resistance went on to become one of the most invoked […]
May 27, 2020

How Police Brutality In India Has Its Roots In the Whipping Act of 1864

Read Time: 5 minutes Suyash Verma on the complicated relationship between the brutal police lathi of today and the colonial act […]
May 6, 2020

The Miseducation of Indian Men

Read Time: 4 minutes Stop telling boys that real manhood is rooted in testosterone and privilege, writes Gunjeet Sra We have […]
May 4, 2020

Painting Her Way Through Corona

Read Time: 3 minutes Ever since the lockdown started, Mumbai based artist Dhruvi Acharya has painted water colours every day to […]
March 28, 2020

How To Cook An Epidemic

Read Time: 2 minutes The coronavirus is threatening everyone as we speak right now. But do we know how the virus […]
March 21, 2020

Social Media Concerts In Times of Quarantine

Read Time: 3 minutes From T.N.Krishna to Prateek Kuhad, artists are coming together to perform live concerts on social media to […]
March 14, 2020

The Craziest Conspiracy Theories Around The Coronavirus

Read Time: 4 minutes Shaurya Thapa made a list of the wildest stories about the pandemic doing the rounds COVID-19 aka […]
March 7, 2020

After A Riot: Dispatch From Delhi, Part II

Read Time: 5 minutes A report by Ruhani Kaur and Gunjeet Sra from Shiv Vihar, one of the worst affected areas […]
February 24, 2020

How to Keep Calm In the Face of Fascism

Read Time: 6 minutes Tanya Mohapatra spoke to therapists on the right way to combat anxiety and depression in the face […]
February 18, 2020

Artist of the Month : Shan Vincent De Paul

Read Time: 4 minutes Shaurya Singh Thapa caught up with the Sri-Lankan Canadian hip-hop artist to talk about his music, its […]
February 7, 2020

Brand In Focus: Delhiwear

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr spoke to Harkrishan Alag aka Bandajee—the man behind Delhi’s hottest new streetwear label that is combining […]
February 5, 2020

Artist Of The Month: Bawari Basanti

Read Time: 3 minutes Shaurya Thapa caught up with the indie songwriter, singer, producer to talk about her musical journey and […]
February 3, 2020

Women Taking On the Government

Read Time: 2 minutes Srishti Chourasia spoke to women who continue to express their dissent, despite bullets and threats against them. […]
January 29, 2020

The Artists Keeping the Resistance Alive

Read Time: 5 minutes Tanya Mohapatra spoke to some artists actively creating work that is aiding and changing the shape of […]
November 24, 2019

Everything You Need To Know About The Transgender Persons Bill

Read Time: 4 minutes Supriya Raman, on why the Trans community is so upset with the 2019  Trans Bill In April […]
November 1, 2019

How Privilege Helped Silence #MeToo in India

Read Time: 3 minutes Just last month, the woman who spearheaded the French version of the Me Too movement, Sandra Muller, […]
October 31, 2019

Superheroes in Delhi

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr speaks to an artist addressing the air pollution crisis in Delhi through superheroes Forty-year-old Rajkamal Aich […]
October 21, 2019

What Makes Tik Tok So Popular

Read Time: 4 minutes The reason tik-tok is so popular is because it has democratised creativity, writes Divya Bhatia In the […]
August 14, 2019

India’s Unwillingness to Declare a Climate Emergency

Read Time: 4 minutes Still dependent on fossil fuels and with a no concrete solutions for its droughts and ground-water problems, […]
April 27, 2019

I was not built to conform: Ravana

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr caught up with electronic music producer Ravana to discuss his new album and the journey behind […]
December 15, 2018

India’s First Art Rock Band

Read Time: 7 minutes Priya Bhattacharji spoke to the musical project that seamlessly blends visual arts, theatre and poetry to bring […]
December 12, 2018

Of Rice Paste and Song

Read Time: 6 minutes An art residency in Bapugaon, Maharastra witnessed joyful camaraderie as Warli artists welcomed their UK counterparts, writes […]
December 5, 2018

A Personal Manifesto Against Factory Art

Read Time: 4 minutes This artist adapted Julio Garcia Espinosa’s essay into four audio-visual clips that invoke as much dialogue with the […]
November 26, 2018

Medical Cannabis May Pave The Way For Marijuana In India

Read Time: 2 minutes Researchers are set to conduct clinical trials for the medicinal benefits of the plant in All India […]
November 21, 2018

How Dalit Music in Punjab Transformed From a Religious to a Political Soundtrack

Read Time: 4 minutes The popularity of Dalit singers has now reached such levels that various political parties are vying to […]
November 22, 2017

Move on Up

Read Time: 11 minutes Divya Guha mingles with rappers in Shillong and discovers an environment of slow progress that has fermented rebellion. Ronny Sen […]
July 19, 2017

Making Their Own Vinyl: Amarrass Records

Read Time: 5 minutes Manan Kapoor on the only record label that is reviving Vinyl production in India In 1983, the […]
July 19, 2017

Portraits of Indian Gorkhas

Read Time: 2 minutes Manish Sharma, tries to connect with and decipher his Nepalese roots by photographing people from the same […]
July 19, 2017

The Vanishing Queens

Read Time: 2 minutes Sukhman Dhillon explores the Tharu tribe and their fast eroding culture in the face of modernity The […]
June 18, 2017

Super-Heroines You Need To Know Of

Read Time: 4 minutes If you loved Wonder Woman, its time you get acquainted with others like her, writes Neha Pant […]
May 20, 2017

Exposing Propaganda: Pratik Sinha

Read Time: 3 minutes Manan Kapoor, on living in a post-truth world and how the founder of AltNews is tackling the […]
May 1, 2017

The Sbcltr Mixtape Volume 6

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr recommends the cool new music you should be listening to right now Oh the brutal Indian […]
April 20, 2017

What is 420?

Read Time: 3 minutes Brynn Holland explains the hazy history of 420 Many believe the term “420” originated from a police […]
March 11, 2017

An Illustrated Guide To UAPA

Read Time: < 1 minute Prof G.N. Saibaba’s conviction has raised questions against the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (1967). Watch this 8 […]
February 8, 2017

The Return of The Book

Read Time: 2 minutes The world is witnessing a book renaissance and it is not going to die out any time […]
February 6, 2017

Saudi Arabian Women Take On Patriarchy

Read Time: < 1 minute Watch this hyper cool music video in which burqa clad women roller blade, drive bump cars, all […]
January 25, 2017

The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence

Read Time: 2 minutes This new book details out the interesting love lives of famous writers and artists This one is […]
January 24, 2017

An Exhibition of Selfies?

Read Time: 2 minutes The Saatchi Art Gallery London is planning to explore the modern day obsession with self-portraiture as an […]
January 21, 2017

Trumpcast for Inaugration day

Read Time: < 1 minute Donald Trump made his way to the White house today and, Slate Editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg continues with […]
January 17, 2017

World’s Last Handwritten Newspaper

Read Time: 2 minutes Musalman, a Chennai based newspaper is surviving the rush of digitisation and is hand-written every day, writes […]
January 10, 2017

Sanrio’s New Character is Very Relatable

Read Time: < 1 minute This Panda listens to death metal, is irritable and hates his boss, basically, he is just like […]
January 4, 2017

Donald and Hobbes

Read Time: < 1 minute Redditors superimpose Donald Trump’s face on Calvin and place text inspired by the Republican presidential candidate bringing […]
December 28, 2016

Mourning Vera Rubin – Physicist Who Discoverd Dark Matter

Read Time: 2 minutes An astrophysicist, a working mother and a trailblazer for women in science who discovered evidence of dark […]
December 27, 2016

Kabul’s Female Graffitti Master on Arts

Read Time: < 1 minute An Afghan graffiti artist is boldly taking to the streets with a spray can and hope for […]
December 26, 2016

George Michael

Read Time: < 1 minute More than just a musician, he was a phenomenon—all heart, rebellious, pushing his limits and brazenly being […]
December 19, 2016

The Spider That Looks Like The Harry Potter Sorting Hat

Read Time: 2 minutes Indian naturalists just discovered a spider in the Western Ghats that looks like it belongs in the […]
December 5, 2016

Nanok Vs Banks

Read Time: < 1 minute The video of the new Nanok song borrows from Banks’s video on self-love Monica Dogra and Anushka […]
December 2, 2016

Walking Through India

Read Time: 10 minutes Rohini Kejriwal talks to Patrick Baddeley, a 62-year-old British man walking 6 hours a day, 6 days a […]
December 1, 2016

Songs From A Railroad

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr reviews the one of a kind album full of only railroad songs English singer-songwriter and left-wing […]
November 30, 2016

You Filthy Rat Bag

Read Time: < 1 minute This 16-year-old artist is making fun of everyday life in brutal illustrations that tell the truth about […]
November 29, 2016

Ok go’s new 4.2 second video

Read Time: 2 minutes In their explosive new song, One Moment, the band plays with time bending techniques and advertises for […]
November 24, 2016

Shanghai Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Read Time: < 1 minute Media artist, JT Singh, takes you on an intimate visual journey of the city and its locals […]
November 18, 2016

Hardwired To Self-Destruct

Read Time: < 1 minute Metallica goes back to its roots with Hardwired. It’s been eight long years since the disappointing Death […]
November 18, 2016

Dragon Ball Z Energy Attacks For Real

Read Time: < 1 minute sbcltr gives you a look into the world of Japanese schoolgirls performing superhuman energy attacks. The Japanese […]
November 11, 2016

sbcltr Essential – Leonard Cohen

Read Time: < 1 minute The sbcltr playlist of the best of Leonard Cohen’s music and poetry. The world is at loss, […]
November 9, 2016

The World’s Loneliest Pig

Read Time: < 1 minute There is only one pig in all of Afghanistan and his name is Khanzir Khanzir, whose name […]
November 2, 2016

Before The Flood

Read Time: < 1 minute Before the Flood is Leonardo DiCaprio’s new environmental documentary. Leonardo DiCaprio – the environmentalist and Oscar winning […]
October 19, 2016

The Love Project

Read Time: < 1 minute Alice Sharma on one woman’s quest to find analog love in a digital world When the world […]
October 18, 2016

Photography: The Past is the Present

Read Time: 8 minutes Ritam Sengupta accompanies photographer Twisha to a 100 year old photo studio and tries to comprehend how […]
October 10, 2016

Pink Floyd Back Together

Read Time: < 1 minute A concert may seem unlikely at this point but Pink Floyd has reunited for Gaza, writes Alice […]
September 6, 2016

The Beauty Myth

Read Time: 5 minutes In a time where youth is a constant obsession, Paromita Bardoloi speaks to seven women above 30 […]
August 25, 2016

Unfair and Lovely

Read Time: 4 minutes Sonali Verma talks to photographer Arjun Kamath on his latest photo story, Color of our skin and […]
August 24, 2016

How to Play Dungeons and Dragons

Read Time: 4 minutes Neha Pant discovers the popular role-play game and its timeless appeal There is a reason we are […]
August 19, 2016

Photographs From Yesterday

Read Time: 2 minutes On world photography day, sbcltr reviews Ronny Sen’s latest series, Chronicles of an Old World Colour  29-year-old […]
August 15, 2016

Dalits and Muslims March for Freedom

Read Time: 4 minutes On the eve of the 69th Independence Day, Amit Kumar reports from Amreli, Gujarat, where Dalits and […]
August 12, 2016

Sufi Rappers of Kashmir

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr speaks to Mohammad Muneem, the lead vocalist of popular Pune based sufi band, Alif, on the idea […]
August 3, 2016

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

Read Time: 3 minutes Yes, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany are no J.K.Rowling. Readers will miss the elaborate dynamics of the […]
June 19, 2016

Recommended Reading

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr recommends the books to read right now Summer is for the brave hearts and we are […]
May 24, 2016

The Great Indian Drought

Read Time: 7 minutes Sharmistha Lal reports on the water crisis that has affected 253 districts and 330 million people in the […]
May 19, 2016

Anatomy of a Riot

Read Time: 5 minutes As the Judicial Commission set up for the Muzaffarnagar riots absolves majoritarian Hindutva and political leadership of communal violence, sbcltr […]
May 14, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape: Volume 03

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the music you should be listening to right now We don’t like summer. It is […]
April 24, 2016

Manufacturing Fantasy

Read Time: 4 minutes India’s relationship with Game of Thrones goes beyond fandom. Neha Pant on the two manufacturing units of Dehradun […]
April 10, 2016

Art that Liberates

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr speaks to Nimisha Bhanot. The artist behind the Badass Indian Pinups series Cheeky pictures that show […]
April 3, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape: Volume 02

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the best of music out this month In the last month we discovered many things, […]
March 28, 2016

Under Siege: Hyderabad University

Read Time: 5 minutes Ayesha Minhaz goes undercover at the University of Hyderabad to chronicle the events unfolding there The Cherlapally Central […]
March 19, 2016

Rape Is Legal

Read Time: 5 minutes Kruttika Kallury explains how India is failing its women by refusing to criminalise marital rape Once upon a […]
March 13, 2016

Popcorn Sundays

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr lists down all the quirky movies you need to watch right now Now that you have […]
March 4, 2016

A Case for Nostalgia

Read Time: 4 minutes Gunjeet Sra on the unlikely connection between Umberto Eco and Harper Lee Spring isn’t the time for […]
February 24, 2016

Bad Feminists?

Read Time: 4 minutes Being a woman is just not enough anymore to choose who gets the chance to steer a […]
February 14, 2016

JNU: Anti-Nationals or Free Thinkers?

Read Time: 4 minutes I don’t want khoon ka tilak or goliyon ki aarti, I don’t want Afzal in every house […]
February 9, 2016

Harassed at Work? So What

Read Time: 4 minutes The recent appointment of R.K. Pachauri as Vice President of TERI, despite allegations of sexual harassment, prove […]