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Opinion | Voting, Exit Polls And Aftermath: Savour Democracy In All Its Forms

Nishtha Gautam | Monday June 03, 2024

This general election will go down in India's political history as a single-agenda election. Do you want Narendra Modi to continue being the Prime Minister of India?

Opinion | Mujra Is A Competitive Site - Much Like Elections

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 29, 2024

Mujra is essentially Indian. Mujra has no religion. Mujra is subversive. Mujrai is also like election time, a competitive site. The only difference: one voter is wooed by various vote-seekers.

Opinion | Iran President Raisi, A Parable For The Times

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 22, 2024

The late Iran President Ebrahim Raisi can be seen as an Everyman in the global political arena, representing all politicians seeking legitimacy and power through overt religiosity.

Opinion | Met Gala: Fashion, Faiz, And The Fragility of Bodies

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 08, 2024

Each year, many of us find questions to ask about the relevance of the Met Gala, fashion's biggest evening out. The dissing voices are louder this year given the spate of arrests across university campuses not very far from the event venue.

Opinion | Labour Day Special Toast to Wine and Work - Real And Pretentious

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday May 01, 2024

In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic, therefore, to learn that, globally, almost half of the wine sector is facing a labour shortage.

Opinion | Nationalism And Elections: BJP Understands, Opposition Still Doesn't

Nishtha Gautam | Saturday April 20, 2024

When the BJP ratcheted its nationalism game up, the Opposition left the field on its ideological high horse. That's exactly what the BJP wanted - to be the only option.

Opinion | This Election Season, Even Shakespeare's Fool Wants You To Think

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday April 18, 2024

More than four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare's craft of making the audience hold a mirror to their selves is coming in handy when reflection, too, is merely performative.

Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday March 05, 2024

If actions and words are directed more towards telling the victim how they could have avoided the accident or how they should be responding to it than addressing the cause, its a sign of a dysfunctional society.

Opinion: Bvlgari To Tiffany, All Want A Piece Of Indian Men's 'Maharaja' Dreams

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday February 27, 2024

India is the second-largest market for jewellery, after China. Indian men are buying more jewellery than ever, and luxury brands are happy to shower them with options.

Opinion: Fashionable Collaborators Of Murderous Regimes, Beware!

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday February 21, 2024

When Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga etc collaborated with Nazis in WWII, survival had a bloodier meaning than quarterly profits, TRPs, or year-on-year growth.

Opinion: When Sahir 'Surkha' Ludhianvi Met Danish 'Daastaango'

Nishtha Gautam | Sunday February 11, 2024

In 'Main Pal Do Pal Ka Shaayar Hun', which opens this year's theatre festival of the National School of Drama, actor-playwright-director Danish Husain gives Sahir Ludhianvi-the man an edge over Sahir-the poet.

Opinion: Poonam Pandey's Stunt - Why Are We So Upset, Really?

Nishtha Gautam | Monday February 05, 2024

This cascade of attention around Poonam Pandey's death only irks us because 'we' the smart ones, the know-it-all denizens of the digital universe are brought to face our fallibility. We are very easy to fool. And when we are fooled, we don't like it.

Opinion: Ram Mandir - Where Do We Go From Here?

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday January 23, 2024

It's done. Ram Lalla is in Ayodhya, all is well with the world. Or is it? Has Ram Rajya really come to India? If the government of the day is to be believed for government is an honest institution, it indeed has.

Opinion: Dear Car Owners, 'Buy One, Get One Free' Is Not For This

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday January 16, 2024

In a city where everybody's father is somebody, eliminating the culture of entitlement is a battle that cannot be fought and won at once.

Opinion: Instead Of Seeking Period Leave, Women Should Remove Their Uteruses

Nishtha Gautam | Tuesday December 19, 2023

I am compelled to write this essay in a deeply subjective tone and tenor. Only because an honourable minister chose to share her "personal views" as a "menstruating woman", I'm responding to the said views as another "menstruating woman".

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