In his career spanning over 30 years in Indian advertising, KV Sridhar has never before seen such a wave of bold, socially-charged commercials as he has in the past decade.
Big ideas are coming soon to Indian television screens.
The leadership battle in southern India’s Tamil Nadu may just have got more complicated.
Whenever Abhishek Ray has a chance to go abroad, particularly to Europe, museums are his first order of business.
After the chaos unleashed by last year’s demonetisation decision, India’s finance minister has promised relief, resuscitation, and reform in the coming months.
Art and culture aren’t usually a priority for most governments around the world.
In India, it’s often the brutal or the large-scale stories of sexual assault that capture national (and even international) attention, be it the horrific gang-rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi or the mob of lecherous men chasing revelers on New Year’s eve in Bengaluru.
For the nearly eight million visually-impaired Indians, life is a daily battle.
Long before India’s burgeoning bar scene spawned celebrity mixologists and cocktails with cult renown, the most refreshing, distinctive drinks were made by village grandmothers and at roadside dhabas: puckeringly sour aam panna, made from green mangos, or the musky, beet-red fermented vegetable juice kanji.
Over the years, in-flight amenity kits have been given a stylish makeover. Airlines around the world have roped in high-end brands, such as Salvatore Ferragamo and Bulgari, to transform what was once a fairly standard, uninspiring freebie into a collector’s item.
India is in the midst of a public health crisis.
There’s an easy joke to make on Indians and punctuality, but in 2016, two local airlines broke the stereotype.
Over the past few years, India’s stand-up comedy scene has exploded.
This year marks a decade since my family moved to Bangalore.
2016 was not great for Indian cinema.
Showing off your yoga skills has become a bit of a social media cliche (#yogagram) but for religious fundamentalists on Twitter, the sight of an Indian cricketer doing it is apparently sacrilegious.
2016 has been rough.
One of Bollywood’s most-watched couples made an interesting choice when it came to naming their newborn baby.
A usually reticent voice is leading the crusade against Narendra Modi’s decision to demonetise Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes.
Losing one’s home remains a very real fear for many in India.
Heard of delivery boy, but delivery girl?
A day after Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter account was hacked by a group that calls itself “legion,” the Indian National Congress’ handle came under attack on Dec. 01.
Indian women bear an unfair burden when it comes to reproductive health and contraception.
The French writer Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” and that idea equally applies to men, too.
