Tag: Civil Irony blog

Inside Delhi’s middle class homes: Cut, copy, paste !

RD News Desk- July 21, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> Delhi, in many ways, is a sui-generis city. It is defined by its irreverent ambitions, petulant messiness, insoluble contradictions, and brutalist concrete. And ... Read More

Nostalgia – Now available in limited edition at select stores

RD News Desk- July 14, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> The idea for this article began, as many important quests do, with a VHS tape. I had found it while I was clearing ... Read More

When everyone is an expert, no one is!

RD News Desk- July 4, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> An old school friend recently sent me a detailed analysis of why Virat Kohli keeps getting out to deliveries around the fourth stump. ... Read More

An ode to the National Capital Region: Memories of Noida and Vaishali

RD News Desk- June 27, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> There are cities that arrive in the world fully formed, like Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, New York, and Rome. And then there are places ... Read More

A cultural autopsy of the death of hobbies in India

RD News Desk- June 20, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> Somewhere in the second half of the Kala Kendra’s nritya-natakam on Karna’s life, just after the scene where he donates his kavach and ... Read More

What the boys ate: The gastronomy of growing up in Delhi 

RD News Desk- June 13, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> There are two types of food stories in Delhi. The first is about Mughlai gravies, royal khansamahs, and secret spice mixes. The kind ... Read More

The grocery list is dead. Long live the grocery app

RD News Desk- June 4, 2025 0

<!--Uday Deb--> A few years ago, when my mother first learned that tomatoes could arrive at our door in under ten minutes, she did not ... Read More