Author: Deshwale Editorial Desk

A reported feature on the slow collapse of dating app culture and the words that helped push it over the edge There is a profile on Hinge that a 24-year-old marketing executive in Mumbai described to me recently. She did not screenshot it. She did not need to. She had seen it so many times it had become a genre. “Sapiosexual. Emotionally available. In my healing era. Green flags only. Sigma with a soft side. I don’t do situationships.” She stared at it for a few seconds. Then she closed the app, put her phone face-down on her desk, and…

Every year, before the gods of Badrinath wake up, a local folk spirit must first give his blessing. In Joshimath, no one skips this step. Every January, in the quiet hill town of Narendra Nagar in Uttarakhand, a ceremony takes place that sets the entire spiritual and economic clock of the state ticking. At the Tehri Royal Palace, astrologers open the Hindu Panchang, the ancient almanac of auspicious dates and after careful calculation, an announcement is made. This is the date on which the gates of Badrinath Temple will open. The room holds some of the most powerful figures in…

एक ऐसे शासक की कहानी, जो मरने के 226 साल बाद भी सुर्खियों में है फरवरी 2026 की बात है। महाराष्ट्र के मालेगांव शहर में एक तस्वीर को लेकर बवाल मच गया। नवनिर्वाचित डिप्टी मेयर निहाल अहमद ने अपने दफ्तर में टीपू सुल्तान की तस्वीर लगाई। शिवसेना के कार्यकर्ताओं ने विरोध किया और वो तस्वीर हटवा दी गई। बस, इसी एक घटना ने पूरे महाराष्ट्र की राजनीति में आग लगा दी। कांग्रेस के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष हर्षवर्धन सपकाल ने यहाँ तक कह दिया कि “टीपू सुल्तान की वीरता छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज के समान थी।” BJP ने इसे हिंदू भावनाओं पर चोट…

મુંબઈના પત્રકારોની 53 વર્ષથી કાર્યરત સંસ્થા, મુંબઈ ગુજરાતી પત્રકાર સંઘના નેજા હેઠળ, અખાત્રીજે એટવે રવિવારે ‘ગુજરાતી પત્રકાર વિશ્વ’ નામના ડિજિટલ સામયિકનો દબદબાભેર શુભારંભ થયો હતો. સાથે, દુનિયામાં કોઈ ભાષામાં ક્યારેય નહીં બન્યું હોય એવું પત્રકાર એન્થમ એટલે પત્રકારગીત પણ કાર્યક્રમમાં લૉન્ચ થયું હતું. મુંબઈના અનેક અગ્રણી નિવૃત્ત અને સક્રિય પત્રકારો સહિત રાજકીય આગેવાનોની ઉપસ્થિતિમાં આ કાર્યક્રમ સંપન્ન થયો હતો. મુંબઈના ગુજરાતી પત્રકારજગતમાં આ મેગેઝિન સાથે એક નવી આશાસ્પદ શરૂઆત થઈ છે. રવિવાર, 19 એપ્રિલે બોરીવલીના અટલ સ્મૃતિ ભવનમાં ‘ગુજરાતી પત્રકાર વિશ્વ’ અને પત્રકારગીતનું લોકાર્પણ થયું હતું. કાર્યક્રમમાં મુંબઈના ગુજરાતી પત્રકાર સંઘના તમામ પદાદિકારીઓ ઉપસ્થિત રહ્યા હતા.સાથે, વરિષ્ઠ પત્રકારો જનકભાઈ શાહ…

In a world that worships busyness, the most radical thing you can do on a Sunday is absolutely nothing. Picture this. It’s Sunday morning. You have no plans. No brunch to get to, no gym class booked, no friend’s cousin’s birthday dinner to attend. You sit on your bed and feel… strange. Uncomfortable. Like you’re forgetting something important. So you pick up your phone. You check Instagram. You see someone doing a 10 km run. Someone else is at a pottery class. Another person has already visited a new cafe, journaled, and apparently started learning Spanish before 9 AM. By…

India celebrates its civil servants today. But do we really know who they are, what they carry, and what we ask of them? Four months before India was even officially free a man stood up in a hall in Delhi and made a promise on behalf of a nation that did not yet fully exist. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first Home Minister, looked at a room full of young officers and told them they were the “steel frame” of India. Not the politicians. Not the generals. The civil servants. The people who would sit behind desks, read files, tour villages,…

In Noida’s industrial corridors, the real wage thief isn’t the law it’s the system the law refuses to see Kaleem has spent twenty years bent over a sewing machine. He knows the hum of a factory floor the way a farmer knows rain  by its sound, its weight, its meaning. In those two decades, he has watched governments revise minimum wages no fewer than forty times. He has watched the numbers on the notification boards go up. And every single time, he has walked home with roughly the same amount he walked home with the year before. This is not…

सपनों और संघर्षों के इस शहर में टाटा मुंबई मैराथन 2026 ने एक बार फिर यह साबित कर दिया कि दौड़ केवल दूरी तय करने का माध्यम नहीं, बल्कि बदलाव की दिशा में उठाया गया एक मजबूत कदम भी हो सकती है। इस वर्ष आयोजित ‘एन ईवनिंग ऑफ ग्रेटिट्यूड’ समारोह ने इस ऐतिहासिक आयोजन के 21 वर्षों की सफलता का जश्न मनाया, जहां हर उपलब्धि के पीछे छिपी संवेदनाओं और सामाजिक योगदान को सम्मान दिया गया। “हर दिल मुंबई” की भावना से ओतप्रोत इस आयोजन ने यह दिखाया कि एक मैराथन कैसे समाज को जोड़ने का सशक्त माध्यम बन सकती…

There was no stage. No microphone. No familiar face of a union leader raising a fist in the air. Just thousands of workers tired, unpaid fairly, and finally fed up stepping out of their factories and onto the roads of Noida. What happened in this satellite city of Delhi earlier this month was not supposed to happen this way. Labour protests in India have historically been organised, structured affairs led by trade unions, backed by political parties, and announced well in advance. This was different. And that difference is exactly what makes it important. The spark nobody planned Noida is…

In the gentle morning light of a traditional home in coastal Kerala, artisan Krishnan dips his hands into a cool paste of lime, natural iron oxide, and water. With rhythmic, loving strokes he spreads the rich reddish-brown mixture across the floor. By evening, after patient curing and hours of polishing with pure coconut oil, the surface glows with a mirror-like sheen that reflects the golden light. Bare feet meet refreshing coolness even as the tropical sun climbs high. No electricity. No chemicals. Just pure, timeless comfort crafted by human hands and ancient wisdom. Krishnan’s hands carry forward a living legacy…