Roshni Nair
Roshni is a feature writer and Laadli awardee. She likes writing, loves animals, and hates talking about herself in third person.
Articles by Roshni Nair
They walk in beauty: A peek at India’s lesser-known pageants
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON SEP 10, 2017 01:48 PM IST
Did you know there was a Mr & Miss Wheelchair India, a Mrs India Home Makers, and a Miss Himalaya? Meet the winners and organisers of beauty contests you didn’t know existed.
#Bollywood: The Hindi family film is finally being honest about sex
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON SEP 03, 2017 04:19 PM IST
From sperm donors to erectile dysfunction and women with raw desire, there’s less hypocrisy and more real romance on-screen.
Meet the extreme SRK, Salman, Vijay, Ajith fans behind rabid tweets and hashtags
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON AUG 21, 2017 06:16 PM IST
Why do they turn so viciously on ’haters’, launch personal attacks on critics? One troll puts it like this: ‘Twitter is a jungle, animals everywhere. To survive, you have to hunt them.’
‘Indecent obsessions’: A peek into life as a kleptomaniac, compulsive liar
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON AUG 20, 2017 11:25 AM IST
As friends desert you and family stays away, it can be a lonely battle for those compelled to take things, tell lies.
Don’t ignore the silent killer. Find ways to beat the stress you’re feeling
Hindustan Times | By Sanchita Sharma & Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JUL 30, 2017 08:42 AM IST
An eight-city study has found that most people suffer from some degree of stress, and how they deal with it makes all the difference.
In The End: This weekend, catch a tribute to Linkin Park
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
PUBLISHED ON JUL 28, 2017 05:03 PM IST
Anthracite will perform songs from six of the band’s albums, in memory of Chester Bennington.
I was in jail for 12 years for nothing: A graphic retelling of prison horror
Hindustan Times | By Dhrubo Jyoti, Roshni Nair and Mohit Suneja
UPDATED ON JUL 26, 2017 03:13 PM IST
This is the story of Aparajita Basu who was arrested in 2000 on charges of murdering her husband.
Tales from former inmates: What life is like in a women’s jail in India
Hindustan Times | By Dhrubo Jyoti & Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JUL 26, 2017 02:05 PM IST
Most jails for women are just a room or two in a men’s prison. Food rations are smaller, infrastructure is poorer. A recent riot following a custodial death was triggered by five missing pieces of bread and two eggs.
Mumbai, exercise is good for getting fitter, but excess is bad
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON AUG 04, 2017 12:25 PM IST
Different diets to lose weight faster, going that extra mile to get fitter or following someone else’s methods are all things you must not do
Pealing laughter, healing hands: How volunteers bring cheer to patients
Hindustan Times | By Anonna Dutt and Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JUL 09, 2017 08:40 AM IST
From ‘Clownseling’ to palliative care, hospital helpers are giving the sick and despairing something to look forward to.
All that jazz: Bringing the swinging Sixties back to Mumbai
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JUL 08, 2017 08:24 AM IST
In its first edition, the Zizieland Jazz Festival pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and The Rat Pack.
Where are you really from? An art show traces the history of migration
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
PUBLISHED ON JUL 07, 2017 04:16 PM IST
Explore the ‘loop’ between Mumbai and villages in the Konkan through photographs, installations and renderings, at an exhibition titled Mumbai Return.
Heard that song before? Meet some of India’s coolest tribute bands
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JUN 20, 2017 01:38 PM IST
They tend to be looked down upon by makers of ‘original music’. But it takes a certain kind of dedication to forever play a playlist that’s not your own.
Shalom, Bollywood: Resurrecting the Jewish heritage of Hindi cinema
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAY 28, 2017 08:38 AM IST
An Australian professor, Danny Ben-Moshe, is working on a documentary on the forgotten Indian Jews who left their mark on the world’s largest film industry
I lived for two weeks in a rainforest in the Western Ghats. Here’s what it was like
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAY 22, 2017 01:36 PM IST
An HT writer signed up as a volunteer at India’s only rainforest research station, situated deep within the Western Ghats in a region called Agumbe. It was like nothing she had ever done before.
YouTube sensation Penn Masala will perform in Mumbai on May 20
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAY 20, 2017 08:45 AM IST
Penn Masala will sing at a mall in Mumbai as part of their India tour, celebrating a new album and 10 years since they debuted as the world’s first south Asian A capella group.
Hoppipola? PapaCream? Why do some Mumbai eateries have such quirky names?
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2017 08:27 AM IST
Seven restaurateurs reveal the secrets and coded messages behind their name plates.
The truth is out there: Tales from India’s UFO investigators
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAY 11, 2017 01:38 PM IST
Lights in the sky, levitating beings, hard science vs conjecture: Meet the guys trying to sift the crazies from the true witnesses in their search for unidentified flying objects.
Bogie men: Meet the foot soldiers of the Indian Railways
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAR 18, 2017 09:39 PM IST
Track maintainers or gangmen walk miles, often carrying heavy equipment, and risk their lives to keep your trains on track. These are their stories.
Going, going, gone…Christie’s backs out of live auctions in India
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAR 17, 2017 12:20 AM IST
The decision to end the live auctions in Mumbai is part of a bigger and broader decision taken for Christie’s worldwide
Yale, Juilliard musicians to perform in Mumbai for the first time
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAR 15, 2017 02:12 PM IST
The Yale Schola Cantorum will perform choral music from as far back as the 15th century, while the New York-based Juilliard415 will perform on 400-year-old Baroque-era instruments.
SRK’s back in Darr 2, Kahaani’s Bob Biswas has a mom: How fans are rewriting film endings
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAR 12, 2017 03:18 PM IST
In the world of Bollywood fan fiction, anything is possible. Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone can get together again, you can merge Lord of the Rings with Dil. Meet the fans who are rewriting the endings of their favourite films.
Food for thought: Restaurant trends that need to go
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON MAR 04, 2017 09:13 AM IST
From ridiculous plating to unimaginative interiors, four food lovers call out the Indian restaurant scene on trends they want done away with.
What are you doing on Valentine’s Day? Bet you can’t beat the mosquito
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON FEB 12, 2017 12:15 PM IST
There’s a lot of fancy wooing in the animal kingdom. Fireflies flash their lights in code, mosquitoes sing ‘songs’, and male balloon flies even offer gift-wrapped tokens to their lady love
HT Kala Ghoda Arts Festival: Experiencing music that transcends God, religion
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
PUBLISHED ON FEB 07, 2017 09:14 AM IST
The event was organised as part of the LIC Music Festival co-powered by Fox Life, and hosted by Fever 104 FM RJ Karan Singh.
Chances are, a child you know is using drugs...
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JAN 31, 2017 05:59 PM IST
A first-ever nationwide survey on drug abuse in children has found that the average age of initiation is 12.
New podcast to highlight India’s political issues
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JAN 21, 2017 11:25 AM IST
A Brit is offering a guided walk through Indian history, via podcast
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON JAN 07, 2017 08:42 AM IST
Kit Patrick’s ‘bumbling historian’ persona and intriguing snapshots of guilds and battles has a cult following.
Take the plunge: Bring in the new year with new adventure sports
Hindustan Times | By Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2016 08:48 AM IST
Be a daredevil or a (very low-slung) rope, try bubble soccer, or take a ride on a swoop swing.
Planning a detox diet in the new year? Beware of the side-effects
Hindustan Times | By Rhythma Kaul and Roshni Nair
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2016 06:57 PM IST
Quite a few fad diets have been trending in 2016, but do you know what they’re really doing to your health?
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