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Culture & Lifestyle

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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 27, 2019

Writer George Eliot has valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers

Read Time: 4 minutes The writer and many of her compatriots he made life choices uncannily similar to those of the […]
November 11, 2019

The Great Gen Z Burn

Read Time: 2 minutes How Ok Boomer moved from TikTok into the real world to become the battle cry of a […]
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 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 […]
September 12, 2019

Hemp Is Slowly Going Mainstream and India Needs to Catch Up

Read Time: 5 minutes Shubhangi Misra spoke to the pioneers leading the hemp movement in India to understand how it can […]
September 5, 2019

Pornhub Is Attempting to Save the Environment and We’re Here for It

Read Time: 2 minutes With its Dirtiest Porn Ever campaign, the website aims to donate to an NGO that removes plastic […]
December 13, 2018

The Best Indian Podcasts of 2018

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr recommends the best of the audio format that’s finally coming of age in India In just […]
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

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

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 […]
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 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, […]
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 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 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 […]
February 27, 2018

Watch The Video Of Pharrell’s New Adidas Collections Inspired by Holi

Read Time: < 1 minute The three new collections slated to release this spring are all inspired by the festival of colour […]
February 24, 2018

Bharatanatyam In The Wild

Read Time: < 1 minute These women are trying to reclaim public spaces, one dance at a time Classical dances are usually […]
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 […]
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 […]
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

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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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

Chuski Pop Is The Podcast Every Girl Needs To Hear

Read Time: < 1 minute The Podcast starring, Sweety and Pappu, two desi girls taking charge of the brown girl narrative is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]