Amarinder Is 'Punjab Da Captain' To Remind Voters Where Kejriwal Comes From
It’s a sketch of a blue turban, a yellow inner turban prominently revealing itself through it. The background is white; there is no face. It’s the logo of 'Punjab da Captain', Prashant Kishor’s...
View Article#BringHarshaBack, Say Distraught Fans
Harsha Bhogle's unexpected ouster from IPL this year has led to wild speculations on the reasons behind this sudden move. Harsha Bhogle's own surprise over the termination of his contract by BCCI has...
View ArticleWhy Journalist Barkha Dutt Decided To Lift The Veil Of Silence On Surviving...
"I am 44 years old and I feel like I'm eight years old again. I can see that man's face every time I talk about it". It's not easy to talk about being sexually violated as a child. It's perhaps harder,...
View ArticleWhy You Can't Be A Milk-Drinking Feminist
Like me, you're undoubtedly appalled by common crimes against women such as trafficking, rape, domestic violence, murder and the killing of children for being the 'wrong' gender. You may consider...
View ArticleJust For Kicks: This Young Woman Is Levelling The Playing Field Through Sport
It is the concluding day of the two-month-long School Football Championship 2016, one of the biggest interschool football tournaments in India with 225 teams representing a mix of low-income government...
View ArticleCould Our Privacy And Security Slip Through The Giant Holes In The Aadhaar Bill?
The government passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 as a money bill in Parliament on 11 March 2016. This Aadhaar Bill, in its...
View ArticleMumbai To Delhi And The Miles In-Between
My flight isn't for the next three hours and I am already en route to the airport. Today, I tell myself, will be the day I will travel stress-free, uneventfully. However, Mumbai's charming traffic has...
View ArticleI'm A Millennial Adult And I Can Never Be Poor Or Weak
The wifi has been down for 24 hours. The love of your life, the one you spend your whole life with, your "best phone in the world", suddenly called it quits. You didn't think of spending one-tenth of...
View ArticlePhotoblog: How Mumbai Turned Me Into A Street Photographer
I've been doing street photography in Mumbai for just under a year. Formerly a 'pure breed' writer, I had prided myself on being able to string a few words together on my better days to form some sort...
View ArticleLG Najeeb Jung Disfavours Action Against Students Shouting 'Anti-National'...
NEW DELHI -- Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung today said he disfavoured action against students for alleged anti-national slogan shouting in JNU campus and suggested that instead they should be engaged in...
View ArticleHow A Brave 80-Year-Old Woman Fought A Lonely Battle Against Kollam Temple's...
Eighty-year-old Pankajakshi, who already has had an angioplasty and a bypass surgery, and whose house stood less than 50 metres from the outer boundary wall of the Puttingal Devi temple, had tried...
View ArticleRoyal Couple Meet Mumbai's 'Britannia Uncle'
MUMBAI -- Dreams do come true. Ask 93-year-old Boman Kohinoor, whose lifelong dream was to meet the members of British royal family and host them at his restaurant. Known for his love for Queen...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: 5 Members Of Kollam Temple Committee Surrender; Ex-Bihar CM...
The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. Essential HuffPost The Board...
View ArticleVeenu Paliwal, India's Top Woman Biker, Dies In Road Accident In MP
BHOPAL -- In a tragic incident, Veenu Paliwal, India's top woman biker died in a road accident in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh last evening. Paliwal was on a nationwide tour on her Harley...
View ArticleGoogle Is Introducing A Bunch Of Tools To Help The Differently Abled
Google is introducing a number of improvements and apps in their various offerings such as Android, Docs and Chromebooks to help better accessibility for differently abled people. The company has...
View ArticleShahid Kapoor Reveals His Look From 'Udta Punjab'
On Tuesday, Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor unveiled the first look of his upcoming flick, Udta Punjab, which also features Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh....
View ArticleManeka Gandhi Bullied Two Journalists Who Reported On Her Criticism Of Modi's...
NEW DELHI -- Union Minister Maneka Gandhi bullied two journalists who reported on her criticism of the Modi government's budget, last year, and she tried to get their government accreditation revoked....
View ArticleWATCH: 'Sultan' Teaser Is The Salman Khan One-Man Show Fans Have Been Waiting...
The teaser for Ali Abbas Zafar's Sultan was released online on Tuesday. Featuring Salman Khan "in and as" Sultan Ali Khan, a Haryanvi wrestler, the teaser oozes machismo. It promises to be quite a...
View ArticleThis Is Why We Should Talk About Our Bodies
The other day I read a beautiful, heartfelt post on how we should talk to our daughters about their bodies. The gist of it was to NOT talk about it. At all. It said we shouldn't make any comment about...
View ArticleNever Say Dye: If Food's Too Bright, It's Not Right
Have you ever walked into a mithai shop and just stared at all the brightly coloured sweets? Or tucked into Indian Chinese street food with the eye-popping orange and red sauces? I know I did as a kid,...
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