Rudraa Abirami Sudarshan

Our standout picks of the best games that Indian indie developers have to offer, from RPGs to platformers to detective games and life sims.

From F1 racing to Sumo wrestling matches, Mumbai’s C.O.R.E festival showcased a pop culture zeitgeist, even when its ambitions sometimes outpaced its execution.

From Ai Yazawa’s tale of first love and high school to Machiko Kyo’s heartbreaking historic fiction, your summer reading list has girlhood as its double feature

The new anime ‘Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games’ follows a group of dainty schoolgirls who become hardcore gamers

A brief history of 'The Odyssey' and its adaptations, from Greek mythology to modern pop culture

The anime adaptation of 'Needy Streamer Overload' shows the dark side of the internet through a prism of pastel psychological horror.

We trace the journey of 'When the Levee Breaks' from a flood in Mississippi to a country blues standard to Led Zeppelin’s blues rock classic.

From Bardcore and medieval metal to video games and Renaissance fairs, here’s why music inspired by the Middle Ages is having a very modern revival.

Picking up where we left off in Part 3 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, our next musical reference is perhaps the most despicable villain in DIO’s roster, J. Geil. Recruited along with his mother Enya the Hag, he is one of the many assassins sent by DIO to stop the Joestar group. Ambushing them in Calcutta, he shares his name with the American blues rock band, The J. Geils Band.

In Track Four, we explore The Who’s signature hit "Baba O' Riley", one of the most iconic synth songs that never used a synth at all