Malay Roychoudhury, one of the co-founders of the 1960s' Hungryalist literary movement, was a notorious cocktail of confessional verse that continually flouted norms and flirted with danger.

Indian fashion is still suffering from the patriarchal mindset where the male gaze allows only fair, slim, and tall models to be appreciated.

The hyper-inclusive queer world of fashion challenges the view that gayness is a curable tendency in an abnormal society. 

Interfaith and inter-caste relationships have always been difficult in India. As the Supreme Court hears petitioners pleading for marriage equality, the time is ripe to see how laws and hatred have stopped love.

It is difficult to fathom how this country with a billion-plus population routinely gets red in the face at the slightest hint or mention of sex.

In jail for nearly a week over 'derogatory remarks' against CM Mamata Banerjee, the vlogger is famous for his freewheeling expression. He has a few noted predecessors.

In India, a country where the sports fraternity functions in an unorganised environment, questions about the athlete’s psychological health, especially when participating in big-ticket events, is a mirage.

Support groups and mental healthcare helplines have been overwhelmed since March last year, pointing to increased distress.

In conversation with filmmaker Q of Gandu (2010), Brahman Naman (2016), Tasher Desh (2012), Garbage (2018) and Ludo (2015) fame.

Tagore’s involvement with Swadeshi advertising had the atypical pattern of the ‘ours is better than yours’ – understandable in a market where everything is too new to be loved in itself, and easier to be pitted against a common enemy.

Irrespective of the election results, Bengal, which once prided itself in intellectual heritage and broadmindedness, has got mired in a vortex of narrow identity politics.

He was, perhaps, one of the most reliable links that Bengal and India had to the counter-culture movements across America and Europe.