Child Coughing with delhi pollution in the background

Hope in Smoke

It’s that time of the year. The brutal heat and humidity have started to wind down, shopping arcades, malls and homes have started dolling up in beautiful fairy lights, there’s a slight nip in the air in the late evenings, and the pungent odour of smoke in your nostrils. Soon your eyes will start stinging …

Image of EY office and the employee who died due to overwork

E Why?

It’s 2008. I am working in the sales department of a major hospitality firm. My office is near Gurgaon, and the head office in central Delhi. The NH8 is still being built, and it takes about two hours to travel from one to the other. I’d finished my day at work and reached the head …

A pager and a walkie-talkie in front of a blast. Titled Hezbollah shit!

HezbollAH SHIT!: A Bloody Chapter Unfolds in 2024

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or working at EY, you’d know that electronics of all kinds followed by missiles of all kinds have been exploding inside Lebanon. First came the exploding pagers, blowing the genitals or hands (or both, if they were in the same place). Then came walkie-talkies with their explosive transmissions. …

Coldplay Frontman singing while a woman who couldn't get the tickets is crying and a scalper is watching her through binoculars

Coldplay in India: Hot Under The Collar

Coldplay in India has left a lot of people hot and bothered. The iconic millennial British band announced two concerts in India on January 18 and 19, 2025. Tickets for these dates, which went on sale yesterday (September 22), were sold out immediately, causing the booking site to crash. (Or rather, first, the site crashed, …