Page 9 - Mitali Saran

Mitali Saran: Take me to your leader, if you can find one

Do or dye

Mitali Saran: Talking out the old year

The law is an ass

Section 377 is a colonial relic of a law that makes it criminal to have "carnal intercourse against the order of nature"

Mitali Saran: India ink

Make no mistake: It is nothing short of extraordinary that you can walk into a polling station, check your name off a list, and vote

The latest magazine news

Mitali Saran: The editor's guilt

Whining and Dining

Whining helps you feel better when the world fails to meet your expectations

Mitali Saran: A new broom

Wooooo! Wooooo!…Um.

Halloween is not a traditional Indian festival

Mitali Saran: Happy Diwali, pass the nebuliser please

If you live in Delhi you can quit smoking, give up alcohol, go to bed early, exercise every day and eat right, but unless you also give up breathing, you can still get very sick

Pet peeve

"What's for me to think about?" he said, with a tone designed to politely spear your heart

Mitali Saran: Be a man. Wear a sanitary napkin

Who's your daddy?

Mitali Saran: The golden compass

Goodbye, Baby Boss

STET

Mitali Saran: No. 9 Dream

Atheist awareness week

Just do better

Our national talent for passing the buck is the product of a culture that penalises people for taking responsibility

Sibling love

Apparently a barn owlet will squawk less if it knows its sibling is hungrier, taking up its own cause only after its sibling has been fed