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Akhil Sood is a freelance writer used to setting six to eight alarms a day.
VARIETY
| 4-minute read
An ode to joy: Why ‘Dancing Uncle’ is such a ray of hope
With his delightful Govinda redux, Sanjeev Srivastava highlights life’s essence — enjoy yourself. It’s not that hard!
HUMOUR
| 5-minute read
(Don't) enjoy yourself – Banning taped music in Delhi restro-bars is just wicked
Why should bars play great recorded numbers? After all, they're not places for fun. Let's get maudlin 'live' music instead.
SPORTS
| 6-minute read
Why cheating sports icons hurt fans so much
But asking for Steve Smith's head on a tandoori platter is an overreaction to an act that isn’t all that terrible.
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read
Danger at gigs: A musician's dispatch after the Las Vegas mass shooting
The second that real-world concerns enter the equation, the bubble bursts.
HUMOUR
| 4-minute read
Indians will hate tomato ketchup after reading this piece
Sometimes the ketchup itself tells you to take it easy, refusing to exit the bottle. But no.
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read
Linkin Park singer's death is another reminder that behind great art can lie greater suffering
Chester Bennington died, aged 41, a suspected suicide.
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read
20 years on, Radiohead's OK Computer looped soundtrack to millennial life
It's a futuristic, glum, comic, apocalyptic satire on modern existence. Today, that state of being has only amplified.
ART & CULTURE
| 6-minute read
An Indian fan on hearing Chris Cornell, singer of Audioslave and Soundgarden, is dead
He may have been 'ours', but he belonged to no one.
ART & CULTURE
| 6-minute read
Justin Bieber is coming to India - but you have no reason to hate
The Rs 77,000 ticket (with a Rs 210 discount) is a special package deal with a backstage tour and a bunch of other frills.
ART & CULTURE
| 5-minute read