Discourses From the East
Discourses From the East
A sessions court in Guwahati has ordered the de-freezing of Shyamkanu Mahanta’s bank accounts and credit cards. Mahanta, along with Siddharth Sharma, is among the prime accused in the Zubeen Garg death case. The judge did it because the police…
Star Trek, the science fiction world that began on American television in 1966, imagines a future where Earth is one among many equal worlds in the United Federation of Planets. It is a cooperative experiment in survival, not conquest, colonization,…
IndiGo did not run out of planes or fuel in the first week of December. It ran out of room to defy a safety rule. The new pilot fatigue limits came into force on 1 November. The rule was simple.…
In the villages of Assam, a new archetype is being born not from myth, but from meme: the buwari lover. The term buwari (referring to a young bride or daughter-in-law) has taken on a new, charged meaning. Last April, a…
Barely three weeks after his death, Zubeen Garg walked a ramp without being there. At the Lakme Fashion Week held in Delhi from October 8 to 12, his face appeared on a saree. The model even wore a hat like…
