Matters

During yesterday's Google I/O keynote, there was a moment that stood out to me that may have been lost on a lot of folks. While giving examples of new apps featured on Wear OS 3, Google took the time to call out KakaoTalk. I won’t lie. I stood up, pointed my finger at my computer monitor, and screeched some version of “AHA! I was right!” If you already know what KakaoTalk is, you likely are Korean, Korean-American, have a ton of Korean friends, love K-pop and K-dramas, or have lived / are living in Korea. You can see…

Singer Madonna, who was criticised for blasphemy by the Vatican following the release of her controversial 1989 video `Like a Prayer`, which featured burning crosses, a black Jesus and statues crying blood, said that she wants to meet him to discuss "important matters". She tweeted: "Hello @Pontifex Francis - I`m a good Catholic. I Swear! I mean I don`t Swear," Madonna tweeted at the Pope. "It`s been a few decades since my last confession. Would it be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters?…

Book: Art matters Author: Neil Gaiman Illustrator: Chris Riddell Publisher: Headline/Hachette India Price: Rs 399 Pages: 112 Here's a writer — read widely and revered globally — who never graduated from a college but is now invited to the most prestigious institutions to deliver lectures. So how did he make it big? "Be Bold. Be Rebellious. Choose Art. It Matters," is the simple mantra Neil Gaiman has adhered to; and his latest offering, a tiny book that challenges existing norms,…

Editor's Note: In this deeply passionate, and angry memoir, titled 'Caste Matters', writer and academic activist, Suraj Yengde, peels the layers of the deep-rooted caste system in India to show you how this impenetrable social divide has for centuries crushed human lives and is very similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender. Yengde's unflinchingly honest and detailed account of growing up in a Dalit Basti, depicts the humiliations, struggles, and suffering uncountable Dalits experience on a…