Palash Krishna Mehrotra

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The writer is author of The Butterfly Generation

The writer is author of The Butterfly Generation

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Stories by the author

• Living in the land of cheater cockroaches takes guts, spunk & moxie

  
  30 May 2026 11:21 PM IST
• How much news do we really need to consume?

  
  14 Mar 2026 10:46 PM IST
• Yaar, can someone please change the channel?

  
  22 Nov 2025 10:31 PM IST
• Do you really read any columnist on this page?

  
  13 Sep 2025 11:00 PM IST
• You can't do without your 'boys' & 'girls'

  
  16 Aug 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Love me Tinder, the long and short of it

  
  21 Jun 2025 11:03 PM IST
• Rebellious, retro, radical chiclet: How chewing gum may just sum up our times

  
  24 May 2025 11:00 PM IST
• What happens inside an MRI machine stays inside an MRI machine...or does it?

  
  26 Apr 2025 10:32 PM IST
• What's in an accent? That whom we pronounce Sexpeer would be as fab

  
  05 Oct 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Why do rich kids keep banging luxury cars?

  
  21 Sep 2024 11:33 PM IST
• Written word has become performance art

  
  31 Aug 2024 11:30 PM IST
• Black and Desi? In a shocking twist, a US presidential contender finds Kamala Harris having multiple identities

  
  17 Aug 2024 11:01 PM IST
• Oh, what to give, what to give as a wedding present?

  
  27 Jul 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Uttarakhand's new live-in norms: Cheat sheet for dodging state rules - Insider tips from Dehradun

  
  10 Feb 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Here's Wishing Us - Again! - Happy Birthday

  
  30 Dec 2023 10:16 PM IST
• For coming up with the catchphrase of 2023, Jasmeen Kaur is just like a wow!

  
  02 Dec 2023 08:38 PM IST
• Our lather who art in heaven: A soap opera

  
  11 Nov 2023 11:00 PM IST
• View: What Jawan tells us about the mood of the Nation

  
  30 Sep 2023 11:01 AM IST
• The drama about Rahul Gandhi's blink-and-miss flying kiss

  
  12 Aug 2023 09:58 PM IST
• Of all things mall and not so beautiful anymore

  
  21 Jan 2023 08:00 PM IST
• View: How many copies of one’s book must an author sign before he or she can earn an autopen?

  
  03 Dec 2022 11:00 PM IST
• View: Depression is not a fashion statement that Urban Company can fix

  
  15 Oct 2022 10:32 PM IST
• The revenge of the Indian canines

  
  17 Sep 2022 11:39 PM IST
• Secret lives of liquor store attendants

  
  09 Jul 2022 11:00 PM IST
• Why this has got to be the worst IPL ever, advertisements-wise

  
  5 mins read28 May 2022
• View: The lemon is dead. Long live the lemon

  
  30 Apr 2022 11:01 PM IST
• Blood, sugar, sex, fracture; The passions and follies of India's youth

  
  26 Mar 2022 11:00 PM IST
• Intellectuals cannot write about anything without using the words ‘liminal’, ‘prescient’ and ‘timely’

  
  11 Dec 2021 10:32 PM IST
• Is Sally Rooney right to weaponise her own novel?

  
  06 Nov 2021 11:01 PM IST
• View: Britney Spears was ‘imprisoned’ by her control freak father for the last 13 years

  
  02 Oct 2021 10:32 PM IST
• View: Delhi's new excise policy will rob us of habituated pleasures

  
  04 Sep 2021 11:00 PM IST
• Every cloud has a silver lining: Bicycles are back in vogue amid pandemic—and booming!

  
  31 Jul 2021 10:55 PM IST
• View: India is a nation of tailors that still fantasises about being Master Darzee to the world, even as China’s beaten us in ‘photocopying’

  
  5 mins read3 Jul 2021
• Annual packages, a walker for Desdemona & other IIT nightmares

  
  5 mins read12 Jun 2021
• View: The quiet swag of the mofussil grocer radiates capitalism shorn of its profit worship

  
  5 mins read22 May 2021
• Lack of variety, repetition, poor proportions: Why North Indian Thali offers nothing more than a glimpse of tragedy

  
  08 Jun 2019 11:30 PM IST
• How will a constantly wired cohort define itself and the world?

  
  30 Dec 2017 11:30 PM IST