Priya Ramani

6 days ago | thehindu.com | Priya Ramani

People go into the sea to swim, Rosalind Pereira observes. “Then they discard their clothes on the beach and get into new clothes.” For the co-founder of Project Aamhi, a community waste management effort that enables people in 17 coastal Maharashtra villages to keep their neighbourhoods and beaches clean, this peculiar swimming habit sparked an idea.

2 weeks ago | thenodmag.com | Priya Ramani

When doctors wanted to treat Mini Mathur’s symptoms—weight gain, poor attention, difficulty sleeping, brain fog, anxiety—as the sum of parts, she decided to “help myself” and get educated on perimenopause. As she read, she awakened her inner geek and, within weeks, she signed up to be part of the Women’s Health Coach Certification Programme at The Integrative Women’s Health Institute in the US.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Priya Ramani

Giant arcs of metal and concrete dominate the landscape. Skyscrapers with sea views have balcony seats to the excavation of Mumbai’s soul. As three figures from the Holocaust gaze silently into the city’s bowels where a grave of bodies lies forgotten and surrounded by demolished homes, a red wave on a highway leads cars to a gate on the upper right corner of the painting: the doorway to Auschwitz. ‘Work liberates’, the Nazis had emblazoned on the concentration camp gate.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Priya Ramani

The film offers a free-spirited critique of all the country’s political parties, writes Priya Ramani. How do you review a political film in 2025 without talking about its politics? You only have to read the reviews of L2: Empuraan (Overlord) to master this art. The Malayalam film has managed to divert attention away from the usual Salman Khan Eid blockbuster largely because of its depiction of the 2002 Gujarat riots.

1 month ago | priyaramani.substack.com | Priya Ramani

As if there aren’t enough cases clogging our legal system, the Madras High Court recently had to spend time and energy giving an Indian man some basic education: Watching porn or masturbation does not constitute “cruelty” and cannot be grounds for him to divorce his wife. Even if the habits did have side effects such as interfering with one’s “conjugal duty”. No wonder standup comics have taken to speaking truth to power—they can’t compete with the best jokes that unfold in our courts every day.