Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Metamorphosis Nobody Expected From Young Cockroaches
Don’t dismiss CJP as a joke. There’s potentially something serious about the words of young, angry, intelligent people. At the least, it’s clear that taking their silence for consent was a mistake
How To Tell Your Spouse They’re Doing Intimacy Wrong
Lack of desire isn’t the real crisis in modern marriage. It’s the inability to talk about desire. But, there are quiet ways to ask for what makes you feel good, and point out which touch leaves you feeling lonely
What The Woman In Worli Tells Us About Our Life
A political rally had blocked her from picking up her child from school. When our life is interrupted like this without apology, our roads & time taken from us, why shouldn’t we get angry?
‘It’s Better To Be Alone Than Alone At Parties’
When a gathering is full of people performing for each other, you end up coated with the dark dust of their ambitions. Enough of this punishment and you realise that solitude is the only honest room
What Does Paying 35% Tax Get Us?
Not clean air or water, not good roads or sanitation, not nice public hospitals. Sure, too few Indians are income tax payers. But an incompetent state does not offer them fair returns either
‘I Am Childfree And The Central Character In My Life Story’
Having a child makes you a better person? Gives you old age insurance? Not always true. Gita smartly warns against possessive attachment. Read that as a warning on fantasies about how your kids will turn out
Who Killed Goa? Not Just Luthra Bros
Arresting owners of the nightclub isn’t enough when officials who wink at the destruction of a once-pristine state go about their business. They are the ones who allow shaadis near Olive Ridley nesting zones and hand out coastal zone biz licences
Mumbai & Secret Sadness Of Diwali
These days, doorbells seldom ring in the city on festival days. People take off for Phuket. Some celebrate ‘digitally’. Houses have grown larger, the gatherings have shrunk
After #Metoo, it is also time to consider #Mentoo
Men too can become victims of sexual offences as well as false accusations