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Somewhere in its opening scenes, as he’s thrashing a tied-up captive, a villainous henchman realises with a shock who the object of his exertions is and breaks into an incredulous whisper, “Pathaan!!….” And Shah Rukh Khan, bleeding like a boxer in th

Mephedrone, or MD, is a stimulant psychotropic substance, which was banned in India in 2015 under the NDPS Act. It is mostly available in white powdered form, sometimes as tablets or capsules, and is usually ingested orally or snorted. A designer dru

Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies begins with a dedication to her parents and relations and “to every soul who has known, lost, and sought home”. While that applies to most people in some measure, it is particula

Ruth Harris’s fine treatment of Swami Vivekananda situates a much-admired national icon in a wider national and transnational context. His address to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago is a well-known milestone in any Indian perspective on

This eagerly anticipated psytrance festival held through the night on Vagator’s Dream Beach in Goa features artists like The Dog of Tears, Daash, Elowins, Flipknot, Gismo, Psykovsky and Life Enjoyers Club. The foot-tapping fest will also see Kindzazd

Hindi films were an integral part of Smriti Mundhra’s childhood growing up in Los Angeles. Her father, Jagmohan Mundhra, was a filmmaker; her parents briefly ran a single-screen cinema in LA, one of the few to screen Hindi films, and it’s through the