October 21, 2026
From festival tickets to phone screens
Lottery culture in India has never been only about winning. It is tied to festivals, office pools, family argum...
October 20, 2026
The smartphone lottery shift
India’s lottery habit did not begin with the smartphone. It began with paper tickets sold at crowded stalls, with weekly ...
October 19, 2026
Nine P.M. on a Phone in Indore A little after nine at night, a man in Indore opens his phone and types three words into the search bar: सट्टा मटका सट...
October 18, 2026
A man in his fifties in Dharavi still remembers the slips. Small squares of paper, handwritten, passed along with a ten rupee note to a neighbour who ...
October 17, 2026
I remember the first time a friend showed me a slot game on his phone. We were sitting in a cramped Mumbai local train, and he was tapping away at a c...
October 16, 2026
Every evening, somewhere between the end of a shift and the start of dinner, millions of phones in India light up with the same small ritual. A number...
October 15, 2026
Something odd happened to Indian online gaming over the last few years. The loudest arguments were about cricket. Dream11, MPL, fantasy leagues, and t...
October 10, 2026
On a Tuesday afternoon, my cricket group chat had somehow turned into a football chat. Michael Olise's name was everywhere, clipped reels of him drift...
October 9, 2026
October 8, 2026
Captain Smit, LA 2028 and the Changing Sound of Indian Gaming For the last few weeks, two very different names have been drifting through Indian time...