Pooja Pillai is a Senior Assistant Editor (National Editorial and Opinion section). She writes at the intersection of society and culture, with a focus on cinema, technology, food and books. She closely tracks politics in South and West India,...Read More
Pooja Pillai is a Senior Assistant Editor (National Editorial and Opinion section). She writes at the intersection of society and culture, with a focus on cinema, technology, food and books. She closely tracks politics in South and West India, and is the host of the Indian Express's weekly video podcast 'DeshKaal with Yogendra Yadav'
Jun 01, 2025 18:32 IST
Barring her from the graduation ceremony, MIT acted against the values that students are expected...
Tue, Jun 03, 2025
May 31, 2025 12:33 IST
DOGE has been mired in controversy. Tesla has suffered. But, it is certain that he will bounce...
Sat, May 31, 2025
May 15, 2025 19:24 IST
Cannes has long been one of the premiere festivals for cinema, but for just as long it has also...
Sat, May 17, 2025
Apr 13, 2025 05:30 IST
The transition from winter to spring and summer is time to express gratitude for the earth's...
Sun, Apr 13, 2025
Apr 01, 2025 19:35 IST
When is a pasta not a pasta? And how a 'habit' of nuns made its way into global cuisine, including...
Tue, Apr 01, 2025
Mar 02, 2025 17:21 IST
It is not uncommon, even today, to see large groups commandeering vast stretches of Goa’s most...
Mon, Mar 03, 2025
Feb 21, 2025 18:06 IST
When it comes to food, there is no such thing as an origin story. Perhaps, that’s what accounts...
Thu, Feb 27, 2025
Feb 14, 2025 20:45 IST
Photo-op featuring Elon Musk and his children with PM Modi tells many...
Mon, Feb 17, 2025
Jan 31, 2025 18:05 IST
If once there was outright condemnation of those who dared to imagine love and companionship beyond...
Fri, Jan 31, 2025
Jan 24, 2025 19:28 IST
But the Academy has to make these nominations count. These stories of struggle and celebration,...
Fri, Jan 24, 2025
Jan 17, 2025 18:04 IST
He upended genre expectations even while working within a genre. What Lynch was really showcasing...
Fri, Jan 17, 2025
Jan 15, 2025 19:15 IST
A report in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal has called for an overhaul of our...
Sat, Jan 18, 2025
Jan 11, 2025 07:30 IST
MT had a hold on the ordinary Malayali’s imagination that has few parallels, having moulded it...
Sat, Jan 11, 2025
Dec 28, 2024 08:00 IST
Now that it’s been established that audiobooks are, in fact, 'real' books, why not take advantage...
Sat, Dec 28, 2024
Dec 06, 2024 18:58 IST
From earphones to clothes, everything seems to have deteriorated in quality to encourage more and...
Fri, Dec 06, 2024
Nov 07, 2024 17:01 IST
Fact is that Kamala Harris ran for president at a time when there is great anxiety about new forces...
Sun, Nov 10, 2024
Oct 25, 2024 13:54 IST
What does it say about us as creators and consumers that we are so invested in figuring out exactly...
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
Oct 12, 2024 17:12 IST
The problem with Joker: Folie à Deux, from the perspective of those who loved the first film, is...
Sat, Oct 12, 2024
Oct 02, 2024 16:26 IST
Despite past differences, the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate have one thing...
Wed, Oct 02, 2024
Sep 11, 2024 11:47 IST
It is arguable whether Kamala Harris has anything more to offer on many of the issues that were...
Wed, Sep 11, 2024
Sep 04, 2024 14:00 IST
Those in dogged pursuit of things to outrage over have little truck with facts, no matter how...
Thu, Sep 05, 2024
Jun 15, 2024 11:46 IST
The story of the Vadodara woman whose right to live where she wants to is sought to be rescinded...
Sat, Jun 15, 2024
Jun 01, 2024 22:49 IST
Turns out, the exit polls on June 1 were the trailer for a film that never...
Tue, Jun 04, 2024
May 24, 2024 16:23 IST
Indian Express' Paromita Chakrabarti and Pooja Pillai debate Bhansali's cinema and his feminism....
Fri, May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024 07:10 IST
Bhansali’s ‘feminised’ films, where women’s egos, desires and traumas are prioritised,...
Sun, May 26, 2024