Where some of India's most sexually adventurous people meet
Tired of living with shame and stigma, members of India’s growing kinkster community say they no longer want to live in the shadows
Mohua Das
Senior Assistant Editor at The Times of India, Mumbai | Chevening SAJP Fellow | Formerly with The Telegraph, Calcutta
Couldn’t believe what the newspapers said and so I became a journalist! It's been 16 years since and what a life-coach it's been as I wake up to it’s power and value, every morning. A good story isn't always about the president or popstar but everyday people and places with compelling tales. Those are the stories I hope to tell... and find the extraordinary in the ordinary!
Look Ma, new hands
Imagine looking down at your hands and seeing a stranger’s fingers. We spoke to recipients of hand transplants about their struggles as well as the joy of doing small tasks again.
Decoding the fictional country of Kailasa that catfished 30 US cities
It was a usual scene at the annual meetings hosted by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in the UN Office headquarters at Geneva, last month. Conference-goers — NGOs, permanent missions, academic institutions from different countries — filed into a room inside the historic Palais Wilson building to discuss their rights.What was unusual was a delegation of about a dozen women — decked in gold jewel
When the selfie chase goes too far
That the photograph is the new autograph is old hat now. Celebs, too, have adapted accordingly. But the average selfie hunt — no matter which celebrity is in it — can go much further in this age of ‘Pics or it didn’t happen’.
'Fellowship' of social workers, lawyers helps poor undertrials navigate legal maze, get bail
Dia and Sonia (names changed), two sisters aged 20 and 21, had a troubled upbringing. Their mother, desperate to escape an alcoholic husband, remarried, but the girls never warmed up to their stepfather. They took to wandering the streets at night, falling into a life of crime that led them behind bars at the Byculla District Prison.
Gen Zer from genre town bagged Grammy with an old soul
It's an impersonal setting - rooftop of a five-star hotel in the heart of Mumbai's business district - but Christone ' Kingfish ' Ingram doesn't seem to mind when you try and tease the 'personal' out of him.The 24-year-old is being hailed as 'the heir to the Delta blues crown'. But blues, they say, is a dialogue, songs of the soul in pain. Ingram was only 20 when he released his first album in 2019. How did he channel those emotional depths and social insights at such a young age, we press on.
After belting out blues with a Gandhian string in Mumbai, Taj will trip on Mahal
When we meet Henry St Claire Fredericks , better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, at the appointed hour on a nippy Friday morning in the city, the towering blues figure is already in his chair fondling a ukulele and plucking a few chords before he leans close and tells a story.
Spooked by recent 'airpocalypse', some Mumbaikars pack their bags
Vivek and his wife Anusha returned to Mumbai from South Africa in 2021 after a 15-year gap. Accustomed to daily runs and outdoor workouts while living in Johannesburg, they went running in Mumbai too. Except that whenever they did that, they found themselves gasping within 15 minutes. They are now among a small number of urban dwellers who have decided to relocate to another place...
Listened a lot to Zakir Hussain: Imagine Dragons bassist
Expect the unexpected from Imagine Dragons, the American pop-rock sensation that emerged on the global stage with its 2012 smash hit ‘Radioactive’. Looking past the cliches of dabbawala, rickshaw or the seminal vada-pav, their bassist Ben McKee says he’d like a serving of Indian vegetables when the four-piece band comes stomping Mumbai's Mahalaxmi Racecourse as headliners for Lollapalooza on January 28. Ahead of their maiden trip to India, TOI chatted with McKee about hitting the road again, a giant album in the time of singles, teaming up with President Volodymyr Zelensky and the mystery behind their name.
Can ChatGPT replace humans? Experiments reveal — not yet
Is it smart enough to plan your vacations? Can it make small talk on WhatsApp? Here’s what four Indian users found after spending quality time with the AI chatbot...
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Would you rent Aftab’s flat or the Burari ‘house of horror’? Sunday Times tracks properties with an unsavoury history to find out if there are takers
Setting up a good quality path lab in Delhi was a dream for Mohan Singh Kashyap. He managed to set up one in 2014 in Sant Nagar but five years on, it was time for him to vacate. Crestfallen at first, he lucked out soon after on a “nice and spacious” three-storey bungalow that came with an empty ground floor to set up his lab again, a five-bedroom
India asked to tackle FGM at UNHRC meet
Just when efforts to end FGM — also called khatna/khafz and involves partial or total removal of the clitoris as part of a well-guarded religious practise among Bohra Muslims in India — was hitting a stalemate, the issue garnered global attention earlier this month when Costa Rica asked India to tackle the issue at the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva when 14 UN member states, including India were having their human rights records examined.
Why so many Shraddhas get stuck with abusive partners
Rather than pointing fingers at the victim, experts say it’s important to understand the complexities of intimate partner violence
The news cycle this past week has been dominated by the gruesome killing of 26-year-old Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala, 28, who strangled her, cut her up into 35 pieces, stored them in a refrigerator and went on with life until he fessed up over drinks with a friend.
While the killing has sparked a debate about the impact of true crime show
Shraddha Walkar murder case: An accident or planned crime? What goes on inside the mind of a murderer
Was it an accidental killing in a fit of rage followed by a desperate effort to conceal the crime, or was it a carefully crafted stage-managed murder?
At a time when LGBTQ books face bans, I hope this offers kids a voice, says author Moulik Pancholy
Moulik Pancholy says he was heartbroken when a group of school parents protested against his debut novel for its portrayal of a gay Indian American boy. The book went on to be banned from US school districts. But Pancholy of ‘30 Rock’ fame found courage in that backlash and whipped up another poignant tale, about a 13-year-old’s struggles for queer rights.
Want to paint, write poetry, a novel: Bots at your service
Until a week ago, I was a regular journalist. Now, at the risk of sounding a little pretentious, I feel like I am quite the polymath. I made impressionist paintings in the style of Monet and Da Vinci one morning, spun poetry like Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe in the afternoon, scored a Hindustani classical bandish at sundown and wrote a short story with a Roald Dahl twist at night. It was all in a day’s work and barely arduous.
Crime banished, so's peace & quiet in buildings with police stations
Mumbai as a rule is noisy, chaotic, even eccentric. But for Mumbaikars sharing their home with cops, the quantum of sound and spectacle can be at a whole other level.The city has a handful of police stations-Pant Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Sakinaka, DN Nagar, Mulund , Chunabhatti, Govandi, Tardeo, RAK Marg-that operate out of apartments in residential buildings.
How Bachchan’s empathy made KBC a big hit
It has been 22 years since a quiz show beamed into people’s living rooms and managed to touch and turn around lives ever since. If Kaun Banega Crorepati ( KBC ) was a game-changer for Indian television and the average viewer, it also changed the fortunes for its host, Amitabh Bachchan . Former producer-director of KBC Siddhartha Basu recounts Bachchan’s charisma, camaraderie and connect with the common man through 14 seasons of the show...
First day, first show: Kashmir keeps its date with the movies
The lights dimmed, the projector cast its smoky white beam and for the first time in 33 years, friends and families in Kashmir found themselves united over popcorn and cola looking up at a ginormous screen to gaze at an oversized Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan sweeping them up into a dream of what life in Kashmir once was and what it once again could be.
Battlefield to boardroom, transition for many veterans is drill of a different kind
In his 20 years of military service, colonel Sabyasachi Rath , 43 has flown helicopters in treacherous terrains including the Siachen Glacier, commanded units along the Northern Borders and clocked in 2500 hours of flying time for the Indian Army. Lately, Rath's survival skills have been put to test over a conflict he did not anticipate when he decided to retire in January, 2023.
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