Na idhar ke, na udhar ke. The story of every third culture child.

For those of you who are drawing a blank, I’m talking about the NRI diaspora, the perpetually stereotyped with shady influential existences.

For those of us who flock to the Middle East only to return a few years later to pursue higher studies, the experience back home is hilariously awkward.

It turns out the internet has played quite the role in painting a very cruel image to the world which is fairly unfamiliar to those of us who have actually lived there.

Does everyone own an oil…

At the conclusion of a recent screening of the film “Ankhon Dekhi”, Rajat Kapoor met the intimate, chirpy, curious crowd of the houseful show for a Q&A session, beginning with a dig at the low numbers the film had received on its release by asking them- “Where were you guys when the film released”?

Well, some of them, as they also admitted with some pride, were among the few people that were in the audience on the weekend of its release in 2014. Some of them had maybe chosen to catch the show of ‘Ragini MMS 2‘ which released the…

2019 will go down in history as a monumental year in science, astrophysics especially, for the first ever captured image of a black hole. Not just the complete science freaks, but the entire human race seems pumped up about this huge scientific breakthrough. But do we really understand what a black hole is and why is it this fascinating? Till date, it was believed that black holes cannot be observed, well, simply because they are black and millions of light years away from earth. So what made it possible and how was it done?

WHAT ACTUALLY IS A BLACK HOLE?

The name suggests something black (obviously)…

The internet is flooded with the images of 22-year-old Sudanese student Alaa Salah, passionately making hundreds of protestors chant the songs of revolution in the streets of capital city Khartoum. Demanding President Omar al-Bashir to step down, thousands of citizens occupied the streets and protested actively to end the three-decade rule of economic blunder and violation of human rights.

PS: This article is a response to Muneeba Rizvi’s article “From a woman of Saudi Arabia”

The writer says: It resonated with me a lot considering I was raised in a similar sort of situation, having spent 16 years of my 19 years of existence in a place close to Dammam, that Ms. Rizvi mentioned, called Jubail. As such, a few months ago, I wrote on my experience and the resulting effect of it on a group of people called ECS and related it to a dish available there called the Shawarma.

On one eventful day, in India, there were…

Traveling through western India made me realize one thing for sure; people should actually travel before putting ‘wanderlust’ in their tinder bios.

When you have been telling people how much you love traveling, how soul soothing and exotic it is to travel since a long time, you cannot talk about the cousin’s wedding you have been to when you were a child before someone asks, “really? So how many places you been to?” …

Motivational videos are the soul of WhatsApp groups, especially the one where family members are, they are a treasure trove of all kinds of hilarious posts ranging from diet posts sent by pot bellied uncles who swear by it, that one political member who knows the deepest CIA secrets or even misogynistic jokes from time to time.

But something common for almost all of us is a flood of “Motivational Videos” forwarded by family elders who seem to swear by it. Who seem to nod and smile and hang on to every single word the speaker breathes out of his…

“Pakistan declared themselves as an Islamic country and India since was divided on the basis of religion should have also been declared as a Hindu country but it remained as a secular country.”

Despite all the uproar this recent statement in a verdict by Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen of the Meghalaya High Court, there is still a lot to be tackled and unpacked about this very common notion. Adding to the statement he further said,

“I make it clear that nobody should try to make India as another Islamic country, otherwise it will be doomsday for India and the world.”

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