‘Baarish hotee hai toh paani ko bhi lag jate hain paaon’. Gulzar’s experiments with poetry give rise to many delightful images, of which this is a favourite for the way it renders the rains a living, ...

Sonis is an Ideas editor at TIME. Michelle Zauner’s new album with Japanese Breakfast explores the many ways in which sadness pervades modern womanhood Michelle Zauner’s new album with Japanese ...

I have a playlist called “I Heart Melancholy,” and I love listening to it so much it hurts. In a good way. And I know you know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Melancholy gets a bad rap. In music, ...