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September 11, 2021

A Brave New World

Read Time: 3 minutes Almost two years into the pandemic, are we primed for a Coronaissance? asks Neelima Mathur   ” I […]
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 […]
October 13, 2020

Band in Focus: Sitar Metal

Read Time: 6 minutes Rishabh Seen is a musician who has the experience of two dimensions of music that are totally […]
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

His Secret To A Good Investment

Read Time: 4 minutes Young-Ok Park, CEO of Smart Inc and Korea’s leading stock investor gave readers practical financial advice in […]
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 […]
July 10, 2020

How a Muslim, non-binary filmmaker is trying to start conversations on uncomfortable subjects

Read Time: 4 minutes Srishti Chourasia spoke to the young writer and director on his upcoming LGTQAI+ film, Sheer Qorma and […]
June 29, 2020

Is renaming a metro station woke washing or a positive change?

Read Time: 3 minutes From ‘she man’ to ‘rainbow station’, how the Noida Metro Rail Corporation’s attempt at empowering the Trans […]
June 20, 2020

Eeb Allay Ooo Is No Monkey Business

Read Time: 6 minutes While production of the film commenced in 2018, the film’s protagonist and his struggles to find employment […]
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 […]
April 4, 2020

An Artist Is Collecting Quarantine Sounds To Make An Audio Art Project

Read Time: 3 minutes Shaurya Thapa spoke to Pallavi Paul, the artist behind the share your quiet project “On 23 March, […]
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 […]
March 3, 2020

Behind A Modern Take On Indian Comics

Read Time: 4 minutes Yali Dream Creations comics might still be garnering niche audiences but depending upon its cinematic future, they […]
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 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 31, 2020

Inside Delhi’s Gun Culture

Read Time: 3 minutes The Capital’s licensed armories are stagnating but sales in illegal weapons continues to surge, a report by […]
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 […]
January 24, 2020

The Essential Protest Playlist

Read Time: 4 minutes A list of the best Indian music to bring out the revolutionary in you Will there be […]
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 […]
October 3, 2019

“Kashmiris resist in many ways, I believe in letting the truth out,” Ahmer

Read Time: 4 minutes Eshaa Wahie spoke to the rapper about his music, the politics of it and the importance of […]
June 21, 2019

The Scene is Going Great: Sez On The Beat

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr caught up with the music producer to talk about his music and all things ahead He […]
June 15, 2019

The Blind Quilt Makers of Kashmir

Read Time: 4 minutes Two brothers, both blind by birth, have been earning their livelihood by stitching quilts and mattresses despite […]
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 […]
April 25, 2019

India’s Only Authentic Documentary Film Festival

Read Time: 2 minutes In a sleepy hamlet in Naukuchiatal, where the only noise is the hum of birds occasionally interrupted […]
January 18, 2019

The Indian Hip Hop Evolution

Read Time: 8 minutes Manan Kapoor, on how rappers across India are reclaiming hip-hop to tell powerful socio-political narratives that are […]
January 9, 2019

BAND PICK—SRI

Read Time: 6 minutes sbcltr spoke to the musician about his new album The Only Find and what makes it special […]
December 18, 2018

I did not give a damn about anyone. I didn’t care and I don’t think I will care in future as well: Raj Amit Kumar

Read Time: 6 minutes His provocative directorial debut, Unfreedom may have been internationally released by Netflix but Raj Amit Kumar is […]
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 […]
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 17, 2018

This Short Film Examines How Patriarchy Isn’t the Only Cause of India’s Rape Problem

Read Time: 5 minutes Priya Bhattacharji spoke to Tariq Vasudev on his award-winning film, Circus India’s ability to make statements and […]
November 15, 2018

I got into an unreserved compartment in a train bound for Bombay and proceeded to make my past redundant: Devashish Makhija

Read Time: 8 minutes Shillpi. A. Singh caught up with the writer-filmmaker to talk about his journey as an artist and […]
October 29, 2018

Body Confident Dolly Singh

Read Time: 2 minutes Haters be damned. This curvy girl is practicing yoga and breaking stereotypes that only thin people can […]
August 29, 2018

The Loneliness And Intricacies Of Being A Trans Lesbian Woman In India

Read Time: 7 minutes Like most women, my sexuality is somewhat fluid and my identity has changed over the years: as […]
August 29, 2018

How an Ongoing Exhibition In Kashmir Brought Together Two Alienated Communities

Read Time: 4 minutes Kashmir had a bolstering art scene before the rise of armed militancy shrunk the space for such […]
August 29, 2018

Bearded Muslims as Terrorists, and Other Media Compulsions

Read Time: 4 minutes ABC’s apology for portraying a Hindu terrorist in Quantico begs the question: what decides the portrayal of […]
August 29, 2018

Mind Molding Psychedelic Drugs Could Treat Depression, and Other Mental Illnesses

Read Time: 4 minutes It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my […]
August 29, 2018

The Many Meanings of Being Queer

Read Time: 6 minutes The best part of the recently concluded exhibition Me We, and the artworks it showcased was the […]
August 29, 2018

India Almost Made A Law Against Lynching, Then People Forgot About It

Read Time: 6 minutes A year since MASUKA came into existence, the draft is still struggling through its way to becoming […]
August 29, 2018

Blood Moon: Lunar Eclipse Myths from Around the World

Read Time: 4 minutes Lunar eclipses have fascinated cultures across the globe, and inspired several striking myths and legends, many of […]
August 29, 2018

How Rihai Manch Is Combating Hate Politics

Read Time: 4 minutes A legal-political advocacy group completes 10 years fighting injustice of state and police, reports Pratikshit Singh In […]
August 29, 2018

Rap and Annihilation Of Caste: The Story of Sumeet Samos

Read Time: 4 minutes Rap is being introduced into the resistance by Sumeet Samos, a 24-year-old postgraduate student from Jawaharlal Nehru […]
August 29, 2018

Brown, Fat, And Androgynous

Read Time: 4 minutes In search of brown faces like my own, what I find are white people. Skinny people. And […]
August 29, 2018

How a Design Graduate Made Truck Art Cool Again

Read Time: 3 minutes The man behind All India Permit and his story of elevating the lives of the artists that […]
May 31, 2018

Should Caste Matter?

Read Time: 3 minutes The upper castes want to hold on to power and dominate others, writes Nikhat Fatima  Caste system […]
May 29, 2018

How The Seesaw Project Is Redeeming Feminism Through Art

Read Time: 3 minutes The project aims to sensitise people against negative gender stereotypes in everyday life We live in complex […]
May 28, 2018

These Three Men from Kashmir Have One Hobby—Blood Donation

Read Time: 5 minutes These donors have donated more than 300 blood pints till now and they’re not done yet, writes […]
May 24, 2018

Confessions of a Social Media Influencer

Read Time: 4 minutes My family is annoyed with me, friends like me despite my compulsion to over share (as long […]
May 21, 2018

This Man is Riding Through 5 countries to Generate Awareness on the Hazards of Plastic

Read Time: 6 minutes Inspired by the story of a sperm whale that washed up dead on Spanish shores because there […]
May 17, 2018

Bangladeshi Rappers Wield Rhymes As a Weapon, With Tupac as Their Guide

Read Time: 4 minutes Over the past 15 years or so, a new kind of musical activism has emerged in Bangladesh, […]
May 12, 2018

The Film That Explores A Different Gaze Of Sexual Orientation

Read Time: 3 minutes Rahul Desai writes about LOEV, the indie film that is currently streaming on Netflix which explores a different […]
May 10, 2018

Rap Music’s Path From Pariah To Pulitzer

Read Time: 5 minutes The story of hip-hop is one of rebellion, attempts at censorship and, finally, artistic acceptance. writes Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey  […]
May 8, 2018

Using Postcards to Tell Old Stories from The Indian Subcontinent

Read Time: 2 minutes Onaiza Drabu and Prachi Jha’s intitative Daak, uses the old-fashioned icons of letter writing as props to […]
May 3, 2018

This Man Has Been Hand Delivering Books Across Kolkata For 35 Years

Read Time: 2 minutes Tarun Kumar Shaw has been delivering books to people’s doorsteps for three decades on his scooter and […]
April 27, 2018

Guwahati: Lost and Found

Read Time: 5 minutes Shaheen Ahmed’s photographs aim to build an archive of a city on the brink of change How […]
April 27, 2018

How An Indian Man Inspired This Pakistani To Build A Forest In His City

Read Time: 5 minutes The Japanese method of mimicking nature, and growing forests in the heart of the city, is being […]
April 24, 2018

Why Death Penalty For Rape Doesn’t Mean Swifter, Better Justice

Read Time: 3 minutes According to a report by IANS up to 90 percent of rape cases reported were pending trial […]
April 19, 2018

A Language Back From The Future

Read Time: 6 minutes Invented in the late 1800s by a charismatic internationalist, Esperanto is getting its second wind thanks to […]
April 17, 2018

How Two Men from Advertising Started An NGO That Is Looking To Change Lives Through Art

Read Time: 2 minutes Rittyz Kashyap and Irfan Khan have built a network of people through their NGO that enables art […]
April 13, 2018

Redefining Femininity & Sexuality

Read Time: 4 minutes Chen Yuan, spoke to the Hongkong based artist, Claudia Chanhoi, whose art confronts what it takes to […]
April 5, 2018

The Immersive Art of Sajid Wajid Shaikh

Read Time: 3 minutes Fresh off the heels of his latest exhibition, sbcltr caught up with the visual artist to understand […]
April 4, 2018

Single, 30 and the Big City

Read Time: 5 minutes Does reel imitate the real? Bushra Ahmed on testing the Bechdel test in real life in the […]
April 1, 2018

A Retrospective on The Lake Doc Fest 2018

Read Time: 2 minutes For me it was a very unique experience and I will definitely go again, says Priya Thuvassery […]
March 30, 2018

This Man Is Using Storytelling To Promote Communal Harmony and India’s Diversity

Read Time: 3 minutes Asif Khan Dehlvi, took to the art form as a means of bringing back the glorious past […]
March 23, 2018

Meet The New Feminist, LGBTQ Supporting Face of Islam

Read Time: 5 minutes Alessandra Bonanomi, spoke to the human rights campaigner and one of the few women Imam’s in the […]
March 23, 2018

How a Rickshaw-puller Helped Build 9 Schools

Read Time: 3 minutes 82-year-old, Ahmed Ali regretted never getting an education, so he built schools in his hometown of Karimganj, […]
March 16, 2018

Recommended Reading: Diwali in Muzaffarnagar

Read Time: 5 minutes Tanuj Solanki’s writing on the nuances of small town India is sensitive, thoughtful and refreshingly original Over […]
March 9, 2018

Making Literature Accessible To All

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, spoke to Nithin Kundathil and Manoj Pandey, on their cool initiative, StickLit A movie character […]
March 8, 2018

Things to Remember on Women’s Day

Read Time: 4 minutes Ruchika Sharma, on the socialisation of gender roles, the need for feminism and the marketing gimmicks that […]
March 5, 2018

How Delhi’s Street Children Are Turning To Drugs

Read Time: 5 minutes Srishti Bhardwaj on the children who have turned to substance abuse to combat poverty and neglect  “My […]
March 5, 2018

How a Young Boy Returned Home From His Orphanage To Set Up A School

Read Time: 5 minutes Majid Maqbool, on a young man who lost his father, left his village to study in an […]
February 22, 2018

How The Irrelevant Project Is Disrupting Stereotypes

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr spoke to the people who are enabling children see a world beyond biases, one book at […]
February 17, 2018

A Woman Is Using Tattoos to Assert Herself

Read Time: 4 minutes Traditionally, women’s bodies don’t belong to them, I want to question that gendered approach 31-year-old, photographer and […]
February 14, 2018

Why India Hates Love

Read Time: 4 minutes How the country treats its lovers is proof that the old vanguards of tradition feel threatened by […]
February 10, 2018

The Obscure World Of C Grade Movies In India

Read Time: 5 minutes Ragesh Dipu, on how C grade movies give its audience an undogmatic and genuine portrayal of the […]
February 8, 2018

Inside The World’s Largest Open-Air Laundromat In Mumbai

Read Time: 2 minutes Omkar Phatak, captures the essence of the Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat amidst a rapidly developing Mumbai The Mahalaxmi […]
February 8, 2018

A Woman Was Harassed Here

Read Time: 5 minutes NorBlackNorWhite’s new line is all about taking on sexual harassment The designer duo has launched a new […]
January 31, 2018

Annushka Hardikar Gives A Modern Day Twist To Mahabharata

Read Time: 4 minutes Disha Mukherjee spoke to the woman behind the zine that gives the women of the epic a […]
January 27, 2018

This Music Video Combats Skin Colour Discrimination

Read Time: 2 minutes The video, White Karidey, is a humorous take on the obsession with fairness in society According to […]
January 26, 2018

Nationalism In India

Read Time: 4 minutes On Republic Day, sbcltr revisits Rabindranath Tagore’s essay on the subject in order to bring out some excerpts […]
January 24, 2018

Meet The Real Inspiration Behind Akshay Kumar’s PadMan

Read Time: 4 minutes Alice Sharma on the social entrepreneur who risked everything to make women’s hygiene and menstruation a topic […]
January 24, 2018

This Retired Academician Now Treats Manual Scavengers

Read Time: 4 minutes Siddhant Mohan, on how Dr R.C. Agarwal has devoted his post-retirement life to taking care of manual […]
January 18, 2018

5,000 Year Old Rock Painting Discovered In Kashmir Could Be The Oldest Depiction of A Supernova

Read Time: 3 minutes A team of astrophysicists have unearthed an ancient painting in the valley that is believed to be […]
January 12, 2018

How South Korea’s Popular Food Culture Reflects Social Isolation

Read Time: 2 minutes Mukbang and Honbap, the two of the most significant dining trends in South Korea right now are […]
January 10, 2018

This Documentary Explores Nagaland’s Obsession With Japan

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr explores the obsession of Japan in Nagaland with filmmaker Hemant Gaba Last year, 35-year-old filmmaker Hemant […]
January 5, 2018

In Conversation with Reema Sengupta

Read Time: 6 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, caught up with the writer and director of the short indie, Counterfeit Kunkoo— the first […]
December 28, 2017

2017, the year of the laughing monkeys

Read Time: 5 minutes Our little rock around the sun has certainly heated up in 2017 and it isn’t entirely global […]
December 20, 2017

The Sbcltr Mixtape: Volume 9

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr recommends the new music you should be listening to This year has been an interesting one […]
December 19, 2017

How A Rooftop Bar is Ushering a New Film Viewing Culture in India

Read Time: 5 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, spoke to Nikita Naiknavare, founder of Lost the Plot. a unique rooftop cinema and bar that […]
December 15, 2017

Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Bitcoins Right Now

Read Time: 3 minutes Neha Pant deciphers the mania behind the crypto currency In the last one week, Bitcoins have come […]
November 22, 2017

The Ma-Behen Rule And Other Gems From The Language Of Oppression

Read Time: 7 minutes Malini Gopalakrishnan explains how the language of oppression is ingrained into our collective psyche “Language is power, life […]
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 […]
November 17, 2017

Africans of India

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr explores The Sidi Project by Luke Duggleby on Africans that have lived in India for centuries Intrigued […]
November 17, 2017

An App That Brings Art Galleries Into Your Home

Read Time: 2 minutes ArtPassport allows you to take a tour of exhibitions anytime, anywhere, writes Neha Pant The founders of […]
November 17, 2017

How ChalChitra Abhiyaan Gives You a Glimpse Into Real India

Read Time: 7 minutes sbcltr spoke to documentary filmmaker, Nakul Singh Sawhney, about his cultural-political media co-operative For a little over […]
November 10, 2017

Sexual Consent Explained Through Comics

Read Time: < 1 minute Artist Alli Kirkham’s comic illustrations highlight sexual consent issues through everyday situations that are easier for everyone to […]
November 10, 2017

Diaries In Hindi Cinema

Read Time: 8 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva, on the narrative significance a journal can play in a film and how Bollywood uses […]
November 7, 2017

How An Amateur Photographer Used Her Art To Shed Light On a Dying Lake

Read Time: 4 minutes Majid Maqbool, on how Yasmin Hussain started a discourse on the condition of the Dal lake through […]
November 3, 2017

Meet the Filmmaker Who Is Finding New Ways To Connect People With Nature

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji in conversation with Nitin Das aka Filmkaar, the creator of Healing Forest Project In Nature […]
October 30, 2017

Love Stranger Things? Then These Books Are For You

Read Time: 3 minutes Neha Pant on books that will keep your adventure going long after you have finished watching the […]
October 21, 2017

The Widows of Vrindavan get together to celebrate Diwali and a Wedding

Read Time: 2 minutes Srishti Bhardwaj captures a widow remarriage amidst Diwali celebrations in Vrindavan Home to almost 6,000 women in […]
October 19, 2017

This Woman Is Using Music To Popularise Hindi Poetry

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr caught up with Chinmayi Tripathi to understand the process behind Music & Poetry Project  Twenty-seven-year-old, singer […]
October 16, 2017

Music Gets Her High

Read Time: 4 minutes Ritnika Nayan talks to sbcltr about her book Indie101 With her 17 years of experience in the […]
October 14, 2017

The Film Festival That is Taking Independent Cinema to the Himalayan Community

Read Time: 3 minutes Priya Bhattacharji on what makes the Dharmashala International Film Festival a must visit Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, not […]
October 10, 2017

In Conversation With India’s Birdman Aasheesh Pittie

Read Time: 12 minutes Rohini Kejriwal spoke to the ornithologist about the state of conservation in India, challenges posed by urbanisation, […]
October 6, 2017

A Preview Into the bangaloREsidency Project

Read Time: 5 minutes Whether it is re-presenting the cow goddess or an ubiquitous shop in the market, Francesco Petruccelli and Bernd Lützeler’s […]
October 4, 2017

Documenting India’s Culture Of Protest

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr spoke to Kahaani Wale about their idea of tapping into the repository of collective action in […]
October 1, 2017

If You’re Falling In Love or Getting Over it, This Is For You

Read Time: 2 minutes Writer Aastha Atray and graphic designer Shawn D’Souza have collaborated to make #ayearoflove, a calendar dedicated to […]
September 26, 2017

Appraising the Rohingya refugee situation in India and abroad

Read Time: 3 minutes Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood writes about the efforts being made to help the refugees worldwide The New […]
September 21, 2017

Painting Portraits of Pain in Kashmir

Read Time: 3 minutes Majid Maqbool spoke to Hina Aarif, a young artist from the valley who paints pictures of people […]
September 19, 2017

The Mud Men Of Mumbai

Read Time: 3 minutes Omkar Pathak explores the potter community nestled in the heart of Mumbai Nestled in the heart of […]
September 19, 2017

Imagining Artists As Oracles

Read Time: < 1 minute Take creative and life inspiration from iconic artists with cards that re-imagine iconic artists as Oracles “Good […]
September 18, 2017

In Conversation with José González

Read Time: 4 minutes Rohini Kejriwal spoke to the Argentinian-Swedish singer-songwriter about the sweet intimacy of his folksy music and the […]
September 14, 2017

Psychedelic Pop Art From Singapore

Read Time: 2 minutes George Zhi Zao on Reza Hasni’s reinterpretation of popular culture through sacred geometry, religion and pop art […]
September 14, 2017

Revisting Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without A Post Office

Read Time: 5 minutes The poet would be disappointed if he were to see Kashmir today, it is just as he […]
September 8, 2017

India In A Day

Read Time: < 1 minute Watch the country’s first crowd-sourced documentary In october 2015, Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap and Google asked Indians […]
September 6, 2017

Remembering Gauri Lankesh Through Her Words

Read Time: 3 minutes The journalist who was vocal about death threats becoming a “common factor” was shot dead in Bengaluru […]
September 6, 2017

Unfolding The Saree

Read Time: 2 minutes A zine that is designed to encourage a positive discourse on the traditional garment and the women […]
September 5, 2017

These Women Are Using Handloom To Empower Themselves

Read Time: 4 minutes Mirza Mosaraf Hossain on how women in Birbhum took to handlooms to earn a living and change […]
August 31, 2017

How Rupi Kaur Conquered Instagram

Read Time: 6 minutes Anamika Chatterjee attempts to dissect the reasons behind the poet’s phenomenal success Overthinking, typically, can lead to […]
August 30, 2017

The Saptan Story: A crowd-sourced Art Project

Read Time: 2 minutes This seven week long collaborative effort hosted by British Council India is trying to make art less […]
August 19, 2017

This Man is Using Performance Art To Save Books

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji talks to Udayan Chakravarty on his dramatic adaptations of classic literature Once Upon a Time […]
August 14, 2017

Pragnya Wakhlu Wants You To Experience Kashmir Through Her Music

Read Time: 7 minutes The singer-songwriter recently released her album Kahwa Speaks on Songdew and says that she wants to introduce […]
August 9, 2017

Netflix Buys Millarworld Publishers To Bring Superheroes To Life

Read Time: < 1 minute The move is in a bid to get new customers hooked into their ever expanding video gallery, […]
August 4, 2017

A Small Indie From Shimla Could Make It to The Oscars

Read Time: < 1 minute Independent film-maker Sidharth Chauhan’s film, PASHI, has made it to the Oscar’s Qualifying Film Festival, writes Samarth […]
August 3, 2017

The Man Who Is Obsessed With Cameras

Read Time: 4 minutes Aditya Arya has spent his life collecting and documenting the evolution of photo cameras, writes Suyashi Smridhi […]
July 28, 2017

It’s Time Women Take Over Indian Cinema

Read Time: 2 minutes We want more movies on women and their sexuality, writes Supriya Raman Since Lipstick Under My Burkha […]
July 28, 2017

The Good, Bad And The Ugly: Life Of ‘A Secular Muslim’ In India

Read Time: 3 minutes Saket Suman reviews Seema Mustafa’s new book and discovers that it lays bare the many prejudices against […]
July 26, 2017

Stories of Kashmir’s Women

Read Time: 7 minutes Majid Maqbool spoke to Freny Manecksha about her new book that focuses on the women of the […]
July 26, 2017

The Partition Museum Project

Read Time: 4 minutes It is a place of collective memory, where broken fragments come together to narrate the history of […]
July 24, 2017

O Henry In Indian Cinema

Read Time: 7 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva on how the American story teller shaped Bollywood William Sydney Porter was an American short-story writer. […]
July 21, 2017

Recycling Shipping Containers To Build Classrooms

Read Time: 5 minutes Mihika Jindal caught up with Aadhan, to understand recycled infrastructure and its future in India No one would […]
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 […]
July 18, 2017

Band Pick: Zephyrtone

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr caught up with the Songdew artists teen house music producers Zephyr and Sayan Their new song, Only […]
July 17, 2017

The Growing Culture of Protest

Read Time: 5 minutes From Bengaluru to London, Vedant Vaishampayan, on the people who are speaking up against the majoritarian Indian […]
July 17, 2017

Par Ek Din: Into the Lives of Musicians

Read Time: 5 minutes Jaideep Varma’s latest documentary is an immersive one-of-a-kind look into the struggles of musicians who are genuinely in […]
July 17, 2017

Mumbai On Screen: A Retrospective

Read Time: 3 minutes Pranav Joshi on how the Visual Fabric of Urban Life in Bollywood has evolved with the city When films were […]
July 13, 2017

How Sharad Sharma Is Changing the World through Comic books

Read Time: 4 minutes The founder of world comic books will make you want to pick up a pencil and join […]
July 11, 2017

Confronting Identity and Politics Through Art

Read Time: 2 minutes This exhibition brings together the works of six artists who have witnessed conflict to express ‘quiet acts […]
July 8, 2017

Biking Through The Silk Route

Read Time: 4 minutes Rohini Kejriwal tracks one man’s motorcycle adventure through 22+ countries “What is that feeling when you’re driving […]
July 6, 2017

Why Everyone Should Read When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

Read Time: 3 minutes When she writes, Kandasamy gives a voice to all the other women who face violence in their […]
July 4, 2017

Iranian Art Exhibition Of Anti Trump Cartoons

Read Time: < 1 minute The exhibition was the result of a competition that had submissions from all over the world, writes […]
July 3, 2017

Folk Fusion From Nagaland

Read Time: 6 minutes sbcltr spoke to the band Abiogenesis about howey music and their new single Up In The Mountains […]
July 1, 2017

The Immortal Life of Asrar Jamayee

Read Time: 4 minutes Suyashi Smridhi on how the pension board declared the eminent Urdu poet dead even when he struggled […]
June 24, 2017

How PK Nair Archived Bollywood

Read Time: 5 minutes The archivist put together the broken pieces of India’s first feature film and saved it and the […]
June 20, 2017

Band Pick: The Tapi Project

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr spoke to the contemporary folk band about their recently released music and their process They are […]
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 […]
June 15, 2017

Fidget Spinners: When The Centre Cannot Hold

Read Time: 4 minutes Our love for lo-tech is born of our disenchantment of digital tools and toys. So, is the […]
June 12, 2017

The Desi Queen of American Hip Hop

Read Time: 2 minutes Neha Pant on the Indian-American musician who often blends her Indian roots perfectly into hip-hop There is […]
June 10, 2017

Andrei Tarkovsky and Endurance of The Mirror

Read Time: 4 minutes Forty years on, the film continues to captivate and induct new members into its cult like following, […]
June 7, 2017

Re-Imagining Mythology for Millennials

Read Time: 3 minutes Aparajita Barai’s intricate folksy art aims to re-stir Indian spirituality and philosophy by digging out ancient meanings […]
June 7, 2017

The Theatrics of Protest: Petr Pavlensky

Read Time: 5 minutes Where does one draw the line between art and self-harm? The actions of Pavlensky might seem extreme […]
June 6, 2017

THE SBCLTR MIXTAPE VOLUME 7

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr recommends the new music you should be listening to This month, we ease you slowly into […]
June 4, 2017

Losing Identity On Delhi Streets

Read Time: < 1 minute Pushkar Raj Sharma’s disarming street photographs of losing identity in midst of every day life Thirty-four-year-old, Pushkar […]
June 2, 2017

Bollywood’s Weird Parent Obsession

Read Time: 11 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva writes on the Oedipus Complex in Hindi films  The great Sigmund Freud, considered to be […]
June 1, 2017

Around the World On a Bamboo Bicycle

Read Time: 5 minutes Tanushree Singh met up with Sievituo Chevy from Kohima, Nagaland who travelled to 25 countries across the […]
June 1, 2017

This Publishing House Only Prints Books During The Full Moon

Read Time: 2 minutes Tunglið, is a one-of-a-kind imprint that only to life during the end of each lunar cycle to […]
May 31, 2017

Syrian Artist Draws World Leaders As Refugees

Read Time: 2 minutes Neha Pant on how artist Abdalla Omari is drawing attention to the refugee crisis in his war-torn […]
May 30, 2017

Ramazan in India

Read Time: 2 minutes Suraaj Ajithakumar documents the paradox of abstinence and revelry during the month long period of fasting Every […]
May 30, 2017

A Unique Art Exhibition In the Woods

Read Time: 6 minutes If you have time, head to Gunehar, Himachal Pradesh, this weekend for a charming art exhibition amidst […]
May 30, 2017

Varun Grover Collaborates with Indie Artists

Read Time: < 1 minute The National award winning lyricist and comedian, in alliance with Songdew—a music streaming website, recently held a […]
May 29, 2017

A New Independent Label, Azadi Records

Read Time: 3 minutes Manan Kapoor on the new progressive, socially conscious record company which aims to give under-represented music communities […]
May 27, 2017

Dangal Beats Baahubali To Create History In China

Read Time: 2 minutes Aamir Khan’s Dangal is the only foreign movie in China that isn’t made in English or Chinese […]
May 27, 2017

Indies You Can’t Miss

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr lists down the best independent movies so far Despite censor certificate dramas and the stiff competition […]
May 26, 2017

The Ceramic World of Mudita Bhandari

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal caught up with the artist ahead of her open air exhibition in Gunehar, Himachal Pradesh […]
May 24, 2017

Interview with Documentary film-maker and publisher Sanjay Kak

Read Time: 8 minutes In an interview with Majid Maqbool, Kak spoke about the making of Witness, a unique collaborative photo book […]
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 20, 2017

How India celebrated Museum Day

Read Time: 4 minutes From New Delhi to Kolkata, India’s museum came alive for celebrations, writes Rohini Kejriwal Once upon a […]
May 18, 2017

S.Chandramohan’s Poems Of Dalit Resistance

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, speaks to the young poet on his identity, politics of writing and his inspirations The […]
May 16, 2017

Where The Flowers Still Grow

Read Time: < 1 minute Bharat Sikka’s stunning collection of photographs from Kashmir In 2014 and 2015, after reading Mirza Waheed’s novel […]
May 15, 2017

BAND PICK: Moon Roots Project

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr spoke to Hannan and Fatema Hakim on the release of their upcoming three song EP, Esin Moon […]
May 12, 2017

How To Be A Good Feminist : An Illustrated Guide

Read Time: < 1 minute An Illustrator and graphic designer attempts to answer the question that has been confusing people worldwide Teo […]
May 11, 2017

OCTAVIO PAZ IN INDIA

Read Time: 5 minutes Manan Kapoor, on the immense reality of India through the eyes of the Mexican writer and why […]
May 9, 2017

Drawing Queens Of Hollywood and Bollywood

Read Time: 8 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, speaks to artist Shivani Gorle, on gender, movies, feminism and why heroines can be badass […]
May 9, 2017

Art For Cleanliness

Read Time: 2 minutes Bothered by public walls and how they are treated, artist Prasoon Poddar turns his art into projects […]
May 8, 2017

Cow Protection and Its Vigilante Violence

Read Time: 10 minutes The Human Rights Watch reports on how India needs to prosecute assailants and protect targeted minorities (New […]
May 8, 2017

The Nanda Devi Yatra In Photos

Read Time: < 1 minute Mukesh Khugsal photographs the epic journey that is the Nanda Devi pilgrimage Over the years, The Nanda […]
May 7, 2017

Everything Is Art, Everything is Politics: Ai Weiwei

Read Time: 6 minutes In the first of sbcltr’s Voices of Dissent series, Manan Kapoor writes about the importance of dissent […]
May 4, 2017

The Man Who Is Obsessed With Collecting Bones

Read Time: 2 minutes The largest collection of fossils in India belongs to an 82-year-old Army Veteran, writes Alice Sharma At […]
May 3, 2017

Recommended Reading List

Read Time: 4 minutes The sbcltr list of books that should be on your bookshelves this summer These are interesting times […]
May 2, 2017

Making Classical Indian Art Cool

Read Time: < 1 minute These Facebook pages are familiarizing millennials with historical Indian Art through satire and wit, writes Neha Pant […]
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 30, 2017

10 Indians Winning The #NaPoWriMo Challenge

Read Time: 9 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, curates a list of the best poets to have participated in the month long poetry […]
April 28, 2017

In Conversation With Egyptian Poet Ashraf Dali

Read Time: 14 minutes Ayush Prasad, caught up with the Egyptian poet and Journalist in Mumbai, who was there to attend […]
April 25, 2017

The Man Who Photographs Death

Read Time: 2 minutes The Sleeping Beauty project is a collaboration between an Italian photographer and an Indian who photographs dead […]
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 […]
April 20, 2017

India’s First Bar On Cloud

Read Time: 3 minutes Mihika Jindal, speaks to Prasanna Natarajan, the founder of HipBar—a cool new app that lets you pre-order […]
April 19, 2017

Hyderabad’s Human Library

Read Time: 3 minutes This ingenious project celebrates knowledge sharing and treats human beings as books, you can even borrow one […]
April 17, 2017

A Complete Guide to Black Metal

Read Time: 10 minutes Dhananjai Sinha, on how a music genre took on a religion through its elements of protest art There’s metal. […]
April 14, 2017

On Ambedkar Jayanti, Must Read Books on the Indian Caste System

Read Time: 3 minutes The sbcltr list of essential books to help sensitise against casteism As a child, Dr. Ambedkar was […]
April 13, 2017

The Lakeside Festival Of International Documentaries

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr spoke to Neelima Mathur, the woman behind the unique festival that celebrates the spirit of documentary […]
April 11, 2017

In Conversation With Artist Gaurvi Sharma

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr caught up with the Chandigarh based artist to understand her process, her influences and her ever […]
April 7, 2017

India’s Youngest Filmmaker Tackles The Subject of Death in Mukti Bhawan

Read Time: 3 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, speaks to Shubhashish Bhutiani, about his new film Mukti Bhawan Bhutiani recently made to the Forbes […]
April 3, 2017

Recreating paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil with photography

Read Time: 7 minutes sbcltr spoke to the women behind the stunning collaboration that re-imagined the legendary artist using photography, Indian […]
March 27, 2017

The King of Downtempo: Kumail Hamid

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr spoke to the Mumbai based producer on his new experimental EP, From You to Blue Tell […]
March 25, 2017

Unreserved: A Documentary on Indians who Travel

Read Time: 3 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to filmmaker Samarth Mahajan, who travelled for 17 days, across 12,000 kilometre to record […]
March 23, 2017

Designers From Bhuj Made Costumes for Beauty and The Beast

Read Time: 2 minutes In the recently released Disney film, Emma Watson’s character is wearing ensembles that are handcrafted by two […]
March 21, 2017

Read A Comic Book Adaptation of T.S.Eliot’s Poetry

Read Time: < 1 minute For world poetry day, here is The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, brilliantly illustrated by Julian Peters   […]
March 20, 2017

Have You Heard The Beatles, Hendrix and ACDC Cover Chuck Berry?

Read Time: 3 minutes The sbcltr list of iconic Berry covers that launched music careers When he died on the 18th […]
March 19, 2017

The Travel Agency Run By Blind Women and Acid Attack Victims

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, speaks to the man behind Khaas Travels, the start-up that is changing the lives of […]
March 16, 2017

The A to Z of Sexual Harassment at Work

Read Time: 4 minutes The alphabet for those who do not know what sexual harassment at the workplace is and how […]
March 16, 2017

The Sbcltr Guide to Graphic Novels

Read Time: 3 minutes A list of novels to initiate you into the popular literary genre  The term graphic novel has […]
March 14, 2017

Air Ink: The World’s First Ink Made Out of Air Pollution

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, speaks to Anirudh Sharma, on his extraordinary invention that turns vehicular emissions into purified carbon […]
March 9, 2017

Savda Ghevra Colony’s Poor Children Writers

Read Time: 4 minutes Sonali Verma, visits the underprivileged resettlement colony in New Delhi and discovers thriving child authors and an […]
March 3, 2017

The Public Art Campaign For Missing Girls

Read Time: 3 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to Leena Kejriwal, the artist behind the public art project that throws light on […]
March 2, 2017

Before Crashing To Earth

Read Time: 2 minutes Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Mansi Trivedi’s latest exhibition takes you back to the organic beauty of nature […]
March 2, 2017

A Love Letter to Kochi

Read Time: 7 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, travelled to the seaside town for the Kochi Biennale and discovered that the city had […]
February 28, 2017

Band Pick: Barty’s Path

Read Time: 6 minutes Shruti Sunderraman, talks to Arjun Iyer and discovers that his no-nonsense approach to life spills into his […]
February 25, 2017

Free School Under A Metro Bridge

Read Time: 4 minutes Alice Sharma and Dipnendu Choudhury spend a day observing what it’s like to study in a free […]
February 24, 2017

Movie Banned for Being Too Feminist

Read Time: 3 minutes The Censor Board has denied a censor certificate to a movie on the grounds of it being […]
February 22, 2017

Revisiting Amartya Sen’s Collective Choice and Social Welfare

Read Time: 2 minutes The Nobel laureate released the expanded edition of his book yesterday and spoke of liberty and fraternity […]
February 20, 2017

Kurt Cobain: 50 years on

Read Time: 3 minutes What would the legendary grunge rocker be like if he was still alive? And why are we […]
February 17, 2017

Exhibition of Rare Film Memorabilia

Read Time: 2 minutes If you are a movie buff, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, is exhibiting a rare […]
February 16, 2017

A Somalian In Delhi

Read Time: 2 minutes The Horizon is an Imaginary Line, is a semi-fictional graphic novel that attempts to illustrate accounts of […]
February 14, 2017

Band Pick—The Vinyl Records

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr caught up with the all-girls rock band to talk about their music process Can you tell […]
February 11, 2017

Rising Intolerance against Minorities, Dalits

Read Time: 3 minutes A US report states that attacks against minorities and Dalits have grown significantly since the BJP-led regime […]
February 10, 2017

Defying the Multiplex

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji on the rise of cinematic events in India and how they are becoming a unique […]
February 10, 2017

The Right To Be Forgotten

Read Time: 2 minutes The Karnataka government recently allowed a woman to delete personal information from the internet. Suparv Ganguly, writes […]
February 8, 2017

The Handmaid’s Tale: Vintage Atwood Revival

Read Time: < 1 minute The video summary of the classic that is enjoying a recent rise in sales Two days ago, […]
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

The Dire Straits Experience Comes to India

Read Time: < 1 minute The British band is all set to embark on their very first tour of the subcontinent and […]
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 […]
February 2, 2017

Gender Fluid and Inclusive: Lakme Fashion Week

Read Time: 3 minutes Inclusivity in the fashion industry is a highly contested topic, but Lakme Fashion Week is breaking stereotypes by […]
January 31, 2017

John Mayer’s Comeback Year

Read Time: 2 minutes The singer-songwriter is better than ever in his recently released four-track EP which promises of bigger, exciting […]
January 28, 2017

The Robinhood Army

Read Time: 3 minutes Named after the famous outlaw, this organisation gives food to over a million people across 22 cities […]
January 27, 2017

Short Films In India

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, speaks to two directors on how the genre is bridging gap between commercial and indie […]
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 23, 2017

Punjab’s Protest Dalit Pop

Read Time: 3 minutes Neha Pant, writes on the voices of ‘chamar pop’ as it is called in its home state […]
January 20, 2017

Netflix With Q

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to Sanjeev Gupta, the director behind the award winning independent movie that is soon […]
January 19, 2017

Is NDA Diluting Forest Rights?

Read Time: 4 minutes Environment is often a low priority activity for government. This is more so because real and true […]
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 16, 2017

Up, Close & Personal With Patrick Watson

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr caught up with the Montreal based musician during his recent India tour My introduction to Watson’s […]
January 13, 2017

Tharangini: The Studio Keeping blockprinting Alive

Read Time: 6 minutes Rohini Kejriwal spoke to Padmini Govind about the working of the studio, the history and revival of […]
January 11, 2017

A Muslim Woman Teaches Both, Sanskrit and Qu’ran

Read Time: 3 minutes Shafeeq Hudawi, met Rasiya Mohammedkutty, at her teacher training center in Edappal, Malappuram district where Mohammedkutty teaches […]
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 9, 2017

A Case for Organic Music: Lucy Rose

Read Time: 5 minutes The English indie songwriter’s voice just as easily gusts through calling out on sexism and the pressure […]
January 6, 2017

Om Puri Essential Movies

Read Time: 2 minutes The sbcltr list of Om Puri movies that you cannot miss When veteran actor Om Puri died […]
January 5, 2017

Now Aadhar Cards For Cows

Read Time: 2 minutes The government plans to introduce unique identification for India’s 88 million cattle, writes Neha Pant The department […]
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 […]
January 4, 2017

Body Confident Dolly Singh

Read Time: 3 minutes Haters be damned. This curvy girl is practicing yoga and breaking stereotypes that only thin people can […]
January 3, 2017

Rohan Dahotre and Animal Doodles

Read Time: 4 minutes Rohini Kejriwal meets the artist behind the wildly popular series that has drawings of elaborate tribal costumes […]
January 2, 2017

The 2017 Music to Look Forward

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr lists down the albums to start your year with Although music is something that transcends time, […]
December 31, 2016

Ditch New Year Resolutions For Personal Projects

Read Time: 6 minutes Rohini Kejriwal met with five people who made personal projects their goals for 2016 and talked about […]
December 30, 2016

The Age of Inclusion

Read Time: 4 minutes Deval Karthik on inclusive communication as a media trend in 2016 and what it says about Indian […]
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 28, 2016

Lighting Up Arunachal

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma speaks to Merwyn Coutinho, to understand The Batti Project, which is powering homes throughout the […]
December 27, 2016

Afghanistan’s Only Woman Graffiti Artist

Read Time: 2 minutes This artist is defying patriarchy in a rigid Islamic country by daring to paint Kabul with pictures […]
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 23, 2016

Dangal: No for Feminism, Yes for Acting

Read Time: 3 minutes To call Dangal a feminist movie is wrong. It celebrates women, yes, but at the end of […]
December 21, 2016

An Indian is Making the World’s First eco-friendly Prosthetic Legs

Read Time: 3 minutes Leaving his job and higher studies, this man made people walk to their own dreams by making […]
December 21, 2016

Rebuilding Aleppo With Cardboard and Pencils

Read Time: 2 minutes A fourteen year old Syrian boy dreams of rebuilding his war-torn hometown “My name is Mohammed Qutaish. […]
December 20, 2016

India’s First Transgender School

Read Time: 2 minutes The boarding school which will be in Kochi has students from across the transgender community, writes Neha […]
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 19, 2016

Music Trends 2016

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr lists down the things that happened in popular music this year that changed the industry We […]
December 13, 2016

Community Building Through Skating

Read Time: 10 minutes Sinjini Sengupta, in conversation with Ulrike Reinhard, the woman who is using skateboarding to build confidence amongst […]
December 12, 2016

Read Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech

Read Time: 4 minutes The singer-songwriter who wasn’t present for the ceremony wrote a heartfelt speech that was read at the […]
December 9, 2016

Bringing Life to A Lost Village

Read Time: 3 minutes Alice Sharma on the story of a remote village in the Himalayas and one man’s struggle to […]
December 8, 2016

A Website For Women’s Law

Read Time: 2 minutes Don’t know your legal rights as a woman? Don’t worry. There is now a website to educate […]
December 7, 2016

A Suicide Watchman

Read Time: 2 minutes This man roams around a bridge in China saving lives, writes Alice Sharma. On Nanjing Yangtze Bridge […]
December 5, 2016

Rebel Without a Cause: Joe Corré

Read Time: 4 minutes Jesus Jones writes on Joe Corré, setting fire to millions worth of rare punk memorabilia in protest […]
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 2, 2016

Democracy of the Despicables

Read Time: 5 minutes We are entering a new year with a new world order, the kind in which we vote for our […]
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 […]
December 1, 2016

The Curious Case of The Indian National Anthem

Read Time: 5 minutes Citizens may love and be proud of the nation and choose to express the same in their […]
November 30, 2016

The World’s Largest Solar Power Plant

Read Time: 2 minutes By next year, India will be the world’s third biggest solar market Estimated to produce enough electricity […]
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 25, 2016

Being Gender Fluid: Vivek Shraya

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to the trans artist, author and musician on the subject of rigid gender binaries […]
November 24, 2016

Why do you work for Muslims? What is wrong with you?

Read Time: 5 minutes We are living in a time where Islamophobia is not even looked down upon any more. It […]
November 22, 2016

Using Paper Currency After Demonetization

Read Time: < 1 minute As most of the rural economy comes to a standstill, a small village resorts to handwritten notes […]
November 18, 2016

The Wall Of Kindness

Read Time: 2 minutes Taking cue from the Iranian concept, an anonymous group in Gurugram is donating clothes, shoes and other […]
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 17, 2016

Andy Warhol’s Lessons on Social Climbing

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr gives you a peek into the charmingly irreverent book by the iconic artist  When he was […]
November 15, 2016

Reviving The Art of Shadow Puppets

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma meets the last surviving family of ancient puppeteers, struggling to revive the dying art from […]
November 15, 2016

India’s Mood after Demonetisation

Read Time: 5 minutes The Prime Minister might have banned high value currency of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 to catch […]
November 11, 2016

Satire At Its Best: Angry Maushi

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma speaks to Abhijit Kini, the creator of Angry Maushi—a boisterous gun-toting aunty who is fast […]
November 10, 2016

Reviving Urdu: Khwaab Tanha Collective

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr speaks to Shiraz Hussain, the man who is single-handedly reviving the love for Urdu literature in […]
November 9, 2016

Technology is disrupting democracy

Read Time: 4 minutes As citizen journalism, social media, search, big data, e-mails and WikiLeaks have taken over the election processes […]
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 7, 2016

Finding Najeeb Ahmad

Read Time: 3 minutes As the search for Najeeb Ahmad continues and becomes increasingly politicised, sbcltr lists down a timeline of […]
November 3, 2016

The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence

Read Time: 3 minutes How soon will robots steal our jobs? Asks Neha Pant Ever since Wipro, one of India’s top […]
November 2, 2016

A World Without Men

Read Time: 2 minutes Alice Sharma on Elle magazine’s new campaign that looks at gender gap in the workspace by photoshopping […]
October 31, 2016

Halloween Playlist

Read Time: < 1 minute The sbcltr Halloween Monday playlist has songs that are actually disturbing, weird and spooky. Trigger warning, listen […]
October 27, 2016

Reviving Letter Writing

Read Time: 5 minutes A report by Mihika Jindal on how the Bengaluru based, The Indian Handwritten Letter Co. is bringing the […]
October 27, 2016

Murdering Elena Ferrante

Read Time: 5 minutes Radhika Gulab writes on anonymity being an act of defiance and how Claudio Gatti is responsible for […]
October 26, 2016

Pussy Footing Around Punk

Read Time: 3 minutes Pussy Riot has never been about music and it shouldn’t be mixed with it either. They’re your […]
October 25, 2016

One Indian Girl

Read Time: 3 minutes Writer Paromita Bardoloi on reading Chetan Bhagat’s disappointing new novel. On an interview with Indu Mirani, Raveena Tandon called […]
October 24, 2016

Triple Talaq and the Uniform Civil Code

Read Time: 6 minutes With 59 per cent of divorced Indian Muslim women having gone through triple talaq, a practice outlawed […]
October 21, 2016

Coen Brothers: Essential Movies

Read Time: 3 minutes The sbcltr movie list that will introduce you to the brilliant world of Coen brothers Get ready […]
October 20, 2016

Bon Iver Declares Gender Equity Campaign

Read Time: < 1 minute Celebrities in India could learn a thing or two from this campaign and get behind the important […]
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 17, 2016

The Sbcltr Mixtape Volume 4

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the indie music that should be on your playlist right now It’s a great feeling […]
October 15, 2016

The Peculiar World Of Tim Burton

Read Time: < 1 minute Take a look inside Tim Burton’s new movie through a collection of vintage photographs by Leah Gallo […]
October 13, 2016

The Kathputli Colony Myth

Read Time: 8 minutes Sonali Verma and photographer Dipnendu Choudhury explore the famed alleys of the Kathputli Colony in New Delhi, […]
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 […]
October 7, 2016

Who Is Durga?

Read Time: 3 minutes Sinjini Sengupta tries to solve the mystery of the goddess and discovers herself in the process. The […]
September 28, 2016

Band Pick – Afterglow

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr speaks to the Jazz-Funk quartet that has released a tribute song dedicated to the life and […]
September 27, 2016

A Day With Johan Harstad

Read Time: 5 minutes Sonali Verma meets the best-selling author who was in New Delhi last week to participate in Long […]
September 26, 2016

Betting on Modest Fashion

Read Time: 3 minutes The consumers of high-fashion no longer live in the West and the hijab is re-defining the rules […]
September 23, 2016

PINK: Not a Film Review

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal writes about the uncomfortable questions and realities that Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s movie confronts and how it […]
September 20, 2016

Whose River Is It Anyway?

Read Time: 9 minutes Arjita Singh gives a background to the Karnataka water crisis and explains how its roots lie in […]
September 16, 2016

How to Survive an Acid Attack

Read Time: 3 minutes Reshma Qureshi is determined to show the world that acid attack survivors are much more than mere […]
September 12, 2016

No one’s heard of Krautrock

Read Time: 7 minutes Dhananjai Sinha explains how the unknown subgenre is an alternative history of rock and roll music itself […]
September 8, 2016

May Day Cafe: For the Love of Reading

Read Time: 3 minutes Sonali Verma explores a one-of-a-kind left-wing bookstore in Delhi that has become a unique cultural space for […]
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 […]
September 2, 2016

India’s Thriving Men’s Rights Movement

Read Time: 4 minutes Suman Naishadham tries to understand the phenomenon behind the rise of men support groups and men’s rights activists […]
September 1, 2016

Language of Consumption

Read Time: 3 minutes Whether it is the elections, a religious festival or even something as personal as happiness, Deval Kartik explains […]
August 26, 2016

Band Pick – Advaita

Read Time: 4 minutes Sbcltr speaks to the Delhi-based popular fusion band Advaita on their remarkable journey as musicians “Amidst deep […]
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 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 […]
July 26, 2016

The World’s Oldest Library

Read Time: 2 minutes This Library was founded by a woman and now for the first time in history, it will […]
July 23, 2016

Of Parsi Akuri and Caramel Custard

Read Time: 3 minutes Mithila Mehta on why you should visit the Irani cafes of Mumbai Those of you who are […]
July 20, 2016

An American in India

Read Time: 2 minutes Sonali Verma speaks to Marta Vanduzer Snow, a US citizen who is building roads and toilets in […]
July 19, 2016

Dhaka and The Unyielding Rain

Read Time: 6 minutes There is nothing golden about Shonar Bangla anymore. There hasn’t been anything golden ever since our independence […]
July 8, 2016

Why Israelis Travel to India

Read Time: 5 minutes Shalev Paller, a tank commander who served in the 2014 Gaza war explains why so many Israeli’s come […]
July 4, 2016

The Hero Myth

Read Time: 3 minutes Salman Khan unabashedly compared himself to a rape victim recently. The women who questioned him on the […]
June 26, 2016

Is Love Dead?

Read Time: 5 minutes New age communication is making it easier to look for love but it is a bit like […]
June 23, 2016

Letters to Nowhere

Read Time: 3 minutes Sonali Verma reports on the strange after life of letters that don’t get delivered and the people […]
June 21, 2016

Music Day Recommendations

Read Time: 5 minutes On world music day sbcltr lists down the best albums of 2016 It has been a gauntlet […]
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 […]
June 13, 2016

Band Pick—Hoirong

Read Time: 5 minutes Their irreverence for publicity reflects in their interviews and the only thing they take seriously perhaps, is […]
June 10, 2016

Drugs, Violence and Censorship: Punjab

Read Time: < 1 minute As the Udta Punjab censorship controversy continues to boil sbcltr recommends GLUT, a documentary that gives you […]
June 4, 2016

Racist India

Read Time: 5 minutes Neha Pant reports on the racial prejudices of Indians in the wake of protests, after a young […]
May 29, 2016

School of Rock: Dharavi Edition

Read Time: 5 minutes sbcltr meets Abhijit Jejurikar, the man who brought music to India’s biggest slum As we walk across […]
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 […]
May 3, 2016

Leicester City’s March To Glory

Read Time: 7 minutes sbcltr tracks the amazing journey of Leicester City that have won the football English Premier League in […]
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 21, 2016

The Ringal Weavers of Uttarakhand

Read Time: 4 minutes Rohini Kejriwal and Nicholas Rixon spend time with a family of weavers in the Chamoli district to […]
April 14, 2016

Mumbai Originals

Read Time: 9 minutes Sneha Nair explores the city of Mumbai and discovers the charm of old, family-run businesses, and communities […]
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 31, 2016

One of a Kind: Abhinav Deodhar

Read Time: 5 minutes Mrinalini Singh speaks to one of the only handpan players in the country who also hand crafts […]
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 17, 2016

Control, Paranoia, Propaganda

Read Time: 4 minutes Setting up a special media cell to track and counter negative news is not going to work, […]
March 15, 2016
Sukhman Dhillon

What makes a Kashmiri?

Read Time: 4 minutes The Kashmir I knew got stuck in time and froze like Dal lake in Chille Kalaan, writes Aditia […]
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 […]
March 1, 2016

Nomads of the Desert

Read Time: 5 minutes Kalbeliyas were known for their dance and music, today they struggle to make ends meet With their gypsy […]
February 28, 2016

Spring Mixtape Vol 1

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr recommends the best of new music out this February Remember when you were in college and […]
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 20, 2016

Terrorism, Radicalisation and Social Media

Read Time: 5 minutes Banning 125,000 terrorist accounts on twitter is okay. But it won’t help stop terrorist activity argues Shilpa Rao […]
February 19, 2016

The Explorer: Kumail Hamid

Read Time: 3 minutes Downtempo producer Kumail Hamid on his new album Links After two well received EP’s, Flashbulb Memories and […]
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 […]
February 5, 2016

Tibet No More, No Less

Read Time: 7 minutes As the Reclaim Tibet movement kicks off next week, Naina Sharma undertakes a field study of Mcleodganj […]
February 3, 2016

The General is a Lady

Read Time: < 1 minute India has appointed the first woman Director General of its Paramilitary Forces When the Sashastra Seema Bal […]
January 31, 2016

Young, educated, smart and unemployed India

Read Time: 3 minutes What we need are not smart cities but more jobs. Few days ago, hot on the heels of […]
January 25, 2016

Band Pick – The Pilgrim

Read Time: 3 minutes We had a conversation with Delhi band The Pilgrim. We talked about inspirations, fellow musicians and minimalism. […]
January 22, 2016

Freedom of Oppression

Read Time: 3 minutes A university has no room for caste politics. But the centre insists. Universities are places of idealism. […]
January 14, 2016

A Taste for Poison

Read Time: 3 minutes The lucrative business that is cobra venom Lanky, sweaty and beady eyed. He is constantly twitching. With […]
January 9, 2016

India’s Rising Ghetto Class

Read Time: 4 minutes A day in the fragmented life of our unique urbanisation 42-year-old Ram Kumar is waiting for his […]
January 9, 2016

Netflix and Chill Anyone?

Read Time: 3 minutes The entertainment portal has finally arrived in India. But will it change anything? The reigning king of […]
January 4, 2016

Hero, Every day

Read Time: 2 minutes How a 24-year-old quit his IAS job to give free education 24-year-old Roman Saini quit his highly […]
January 4, 2016

Rise Of The Woman Consumer

Read Time: 4 minutes Urban women want a career more than a family On a cold winter evening, 32-year-old Richa Mehta […]
January 4, 2016

Unstoppable

Read Time: 2 minutes Adele’s new album is a sum of her life experiences Three years ago, after winning a Grammy […]
January 4, 2016

Recommended Reading

Read Time: 2 minutes 5 books that are as real as they are brilliant A Brief History of Seven Killings by […]