Fresh Take

I skipped meals at family events and avoided mirrors altogether. But I soon realised I was looking at myself from an inherited gaze.

I invite parents to have honest conversations about what their children truly want, teachers to nurture diverse choices, and students to listen to what genuinely excites and sustains them.

Our devices are no longer just neutral tools. We swipe and gesture through the day, without even a second thought. Here's why disruptions to this routine can feel uncomfortable.

Casting other-language actors needn’t be a frowned-upon practice, especially in times that more and more borders are drawn to separate man from man. You only need to write around it.

Carrie Bradshaw may carry the soul of the Sex and the City franchise, but Samantha Jones was its secret heart. She may have always been unapologetically herself, but never at the expense of a friend.

Taylor Swift has something most artists spend their whole lives trying to build: an emotionally literate fandom that knows what to do when the moment arrives.

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘hakla’ meme shows why trying to erase the Internet only makes it louder.

Do we stop discovering new music as we age? How did we develop our musical taste in the first place? Shaima S breaks it down.

Has your favourite show turned boring, but you can't stop watching? That might be the sunk cost fallacy at work.

Trauma bonding is a bond where one person feels an intense connection with the other person who is also hurting or harming them, says Arouba Kabir, a Bengaluru-based psychotherapist.

Dogs, strays and pets alike, have sparked plenty of chatter lately. Stela Dey reflects on the unfiltered reality of raising a dog and why it’s not as 'cute' as Instagram might make you think.

Swifties can't keep calm. Internet is flooded with fan theories and memes (perhaps the orange theme is a Trump reference?) on Taylor Swift's latest 'The Life of a Showgirl' album announcement.

Farah Khan's end credits sequence may not answer all the big questions, but they do make it fun to recognise that the film you just watched wasn't conjured into being by Shah Rukh Khan alone.

Superheroes once dominated pop culture, but the fandom today has moved well beyond capes and masks. Jatin Varma, founder of Comic Con India, reflects on a key takeaway from the recent San Diego Comic-Con.

Algorithm-approved romance shows, served to us on autoplay, may be distorting our sense of real-life relationships.

In a hyperactive world, where everything is within a fingertip's distance, slow living is the deliberate act of giving your mind space to rest, wander, and simply be.

The issue isn't Sydney Sweeney's sexuality, but the commodification of it.

From Friday's 'first day, first show', I now wait for Tuesday's last show discounts and 'Buy 1, Get 1' offers. And that hurts.

The show is built around the thrill of being desired. Getting chosen becomes the prize. That logic does not stay inside the villa. It follows us home.

A generation raised on YouTube food hacks, Instagram cooking challenges, and Pinterest boards is cooking up a culinary storm in shared dorms.

Social media and films have convinced us that break-ups need solid, explosive reasons. But sometimes everything is just 'fine', and that is the problem.

Rock and roll may be losing to the Instagram algorithm, but veteran musician and Parikrama founder Subir Malik says the live event space may save the genre.

We are cultivating systems that reward repetition. In that model, new voices, especially those without marketing budgets or studio machines, get drowned out.

A generation of social media users is now moving inward with smaller circles, curated chaos, spam accounts, and ‘Close Friends’ lists.

The first time I wore proper sandals that supported my feet and my dignity, I felt like I had joined a secret club.