Journalism of Courage
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.
Between cooking lessons and tech tutorials, a 28-year-old reflects on the quiet rebalancing of roles between a mother and a son
Matcha, the powdered, whisked Japanese tea, rebranded as the holy grail for fitness influencers, has stirred a full-blown lifestyle trend. What’s behind the craze? Dive in.
Rewatching isn't just a quirky habit; it’s a full-blown cultural pattern. Year after year, familiar shows like FRIENDS, The Big Bang Theory and The Office rack up millions of views.
BTS, the anointed kings of K-pop, have promised a new album and world tour by next year. Anupama Yadav reflects on how the band came to mean something far greater than just music in her life.
Confidence alone won't get you where you want to be, but being 'delulu', as Gen Z calls it, may just get you to try.
Zohran Mamdani’s success offers a blueprint for leaders to allow themselves to be real people with real experiences, even if that means a perfect 'swiped right' story.
As a twenty-something girl coping with a complicated 'situationship', I slowly found myself pulled into the world of manifestation, affirmations, and angel numbers.
Serialised storytelling, especially in comics, allows for emotional depth to unfold over time
It’s disquieting to see your childhood icons recontextualised as case studies. Piper Rockelle’s story is an embodiment of a system that flattens children into commodities.
"Now I still go out, take photos and enjoy things, but I do it without feeling the pressure to share it online," says one 20-year-old.
In times of conflict, music can become a vessel for collective resistance, shared sorrow, and bearing witness.
A cultural reappraisal has made Jagjit Singh "cool", but characterising his work as a library of “sad songs” or “breakup-core” ghazals is a lazy and reductive assessment.
Hand a teenage girl the power to play God, and she will run with it.
Harry Potter is set for a comeback with HBO's new TV series. But does the magic still hold for the generation that grew up with the books and the films? Aishwarya Khosla revisits her childhood favourite.
I belong to a generation that expects to be heard. We seek healthcare that is collaborative, not judgmental and exclusionary.
Quick delivery apps do what they promise, and they do it well. But when they become our first option instead of a last resort, we end up giving away more than just our money.
