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Sunday, November 23, 2025

PoV

Diljit Dosanjh’s tickets are hotter than chole bhature, tatkal bookings. The craze is real

Many bought five or more tickets for Diljit Dosanjh's Dil-Luminati tour to resell later at a higher price. The organisers said the tour was sold out in 15 minutes.

What’s worse than losing your phone? Finding it

Once you have filed an FIR and the police find your snatched phone, the device becomes a case property — a part of a criminal trial— and you have to go through a legal process to reclaim it.

Self-help books are a scam. It’s time to break free from their illusion

Books by self-help authors like Ankur Warikoo, Robin Sharma, and Jay Shetty promote toxic positivity, hustle culture, and phony motivation, depending on their angle. It’s just a brief mental high.

Uorfi Javed has done what Rakhi Sawant couldn’t—capitalise on paparazzi attention

In 'Follow Kar Lo Yrrr', whenever Javed appears incredibly relatable. Her journey speaks to the everyday hustle of middle-class life.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s commute to work isn’t just about coffee. It’s carbon hypocrisy

We’re expected to weigh carbon pros and cons of carpools & public transport, while the rich treat the sky as their personal playground. And we’re left to imbibe bits of paper straw with our coffee.

Stree is the male hero we need

Stree 2 effectively dismantles the trend of high-octane movies with hypermasculine leads ruling the roost.

Co-ord sets are a big blob of nothing. They’re the millennials’ nightie

We are bang in the middle of a fashion revolution no one ever needed.

Lack of pockets in women’s clothing is actually political. Time to bring them back—ASAP

Pockets & prejudice—the freedom to walk without bags was sacrificed at the altar of fashion.

The navel is making a comeback. Janhvi Kapoor’s Devara song not the 90s we want to return to

The song ‘Dheere Dheere’, from the Telugu film Devara, fixates on Janhavi Kapoor’s midriff in a most unsavoury way. If this is the pinnacle of ‘pan-Indian’ cinema, it’s hard to stomach.

West is shocked rapper Hanumankind is Indian. Get over it—we do more than Bollywood music

The racist comments against Indian rapper Hanumankind, whose song Big Dawgs has become a big hit, undermine all artists who’ve created great music but haven’t been noticed enough.

On Camera

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas crash: Amid taunts from across border, a Pakistani pilot’s brother voices shared grief & solidarity

Speaking to ThePrint, Salman Akram urges dignity in tragedy, recalling the loss of his brother, Wing Commander Nauman Akram, in similar crash & the mockery his family faced after.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.