Born in Mangalore, raised in Mumbai, Sudarshan Shetty is one of India’s prime experimental artists of our times who is globally recognised for his installations and multi-media works. He talks about how the city shaped his art and other experiences in the 90s.

One of the originals of the 90s pop-culture wave, Kamal has worn multiple hats as an anchor, VJ and actress. Kamal talks about her MTV days and the overarching impact the socio-cultural activities of the times had on the city.

Indo-Canadian actress and former supermodel Lisa Ray came to prominence in the 90s with her debut for Bombay Dyeing's ad and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Afreen Afreen video. Through her writing, she takes us back to those days and what was happening behind-the-scenes.

Born and raised in Bangalore, Dino Morea moved to Mumbai in the 90s to pursue a career in modelling after he won the Gladrags Manhunt Contest in 1995. Dino walks us through the city, it's parties, people and his own cultural escapades of the time.

The Yamuna flows through Delhi and cleaves it in half: not just spatially, but socially as well. What lies across the river has been stereotyped and vilified but never understood. This is the story, and the history, of the other side.

For the indigenous people of Southern India, democracy hasn’t lived up to all it promised.

16 things no one thought would really happen. Except they did.

Barefoot and badass in Bangalore. The Independence Cup is a tournament with a difference.

There’s football as most of the world knows it, and then there is Australian Rules Football.

Imphal’s rehabilitation centres struggle in the face of an addiction crisis.

When a brutal attack left one nurse in a vegetative state, her colleagues turned protectors, in what would be a 42-year vigil.

Secularism, model minorities, and a worthwhile distraction for retired Catholic uncles.

Bandra is changing, but it isn’t being gentrified.

Meet the self-anointed gatekeepers of Indian morality.

A short cultural history of the item song.

After centuries of repressive tradition and castration rituals, India’s vast legion of transgendered minorities are undergoing a cultural sea change.

In the Kumaon hills, Ranikhet is host to the army, both physically and metaphorically.

A fighter pilot’s daughter recalls growing up with the Indian Air Force.

“And so it came to pass that for many years my being was defined by a word not of my choosing.”

The Indian beauty parlour business thrives on a bid to tighten, brighten and lighten.

Why Gurgaon may end up more like a dystopian novel than happily-­ever-­after.

The ubiquitous toddy shop and its spicy food is Kerala at its vintage best. Mullapandhal, or “jasmine pavilion”, in Kochi is an oddly named archetype of the popular genre, where the toddy is sweet, and food is fiery.

For this Indian-origin minority, tracing their roots isn’t as direct as you’d expect.

With the slick horror films of today’s Hindi cinema, we meet the original kings of low budget productions packed with sleaze, gore and terrifying creatures.

How a widespread scam in Uttar Pradesh is cheating people out of their lives and land rights and has turned them into spectres of society.

Delhi’s tihar jail has a brand of prisoner-made products to call its own. but what does having a prison enterprise like this really mean?

Peeling away the prison layers of reality television show Bigg Boss.

5000+ planks of wood, 300+ spectators, 90º from the ground at 80 km/h, and no helmets.

The visual quirks of a well-trodden backpacker route.

In Guwahati, a small band of visionary restaurateurs are giving new form to ethnic cuisines of the North-East.

Meet the designers being enlisted to create wedding “sets”.

The political parties winning hearts and votes.

Having been marginalized for centuries, the transgender community has responded by creating a parallel society.

Mapping the stars of India.

A God in the South, an outlandish curiosity in the North. Find out why Rajnikanth is still the biggest superstar in Indian cinema today.

On the ‘scooty’ as a symbol of freedom for women.

Chef Sarjano talks about his first meeting with the mystic Osho and of his introduction into the Pune ashram.