We did a celebratory jig to welcome tax season earlier this month, giving you a step-by-step to get going on your tax plan. But “Speak to your CA” was the holy grail of Ragini’s tax advice.

Which inevitably led to some of you asking, “How do I go about finding the right CA?”

This article-ette right here should hopefully help you with that.

It’s that time of the year - summer is here, the heat is sweltering and we’re just a month into the new financial year! Which is a great time for getting a headstart to nailing it at #TaxSeason next year.

This time’s Rags to Riches is all about taxes - what they are, why they are and how can we put together a plan to help us get the biggest bang for our buck come tax season.

Year-end lists are meant to come out around the new year, but this month does mark a year since lockdown restrictions were lifted in April 2022, after the second wave. That is as good a reason as any to take time out to acknowledge performances from plays that displayed the gumption to spearhead the return to theatres in an uncertain year. Our resident theatre analyst Vikram Phukan calls it the Special Mention List (which we will present in two parts consisting of 8 performers each), and he has been compiling these since 2012.

While this is in no way an exhaustive account of performance in India nor is it any kind of top-of-the-pops, we do hope it reminds us all to tell more stories and go to the theatre more often.

We consider this article to be one of the most significant spotlights Probably Relevant has done since we began. In the age of pointless hostility towards minorities, arguments in the supreme court about the recognition of basic humanity and a global epidemic of loneliness, running an organization focussed on intimacy and relationships seems almost like a righteous rebellion.

So we offer this write-up on The Intimacy Curator and Aili Seghetti to help all our readers explore what it means to discover yourself through lust, longing and letting go. Read on to know more about counselling and coaching services you can access, events and workshops as well as some insights into consent, open marriages, kink, selfcare and more.

Details on how to book sessions included.

The post-lockdown years have been characterized by a rather singular economic trend - The Great Resignation - where employees (most of them millennials) have voluntarily quit their day jobs. While late-stage capitalism is to blame, the immediate symptom that most of us exhibited was burn-out.

In this month’s Rag’s to Riches, Ragini chronicles her journey there and back again, as she stepped away from being gainfully employed to well, just being. And much like everything she does, this move too was carefully planned. So after a year of planning it and another half year that she spent serving her notice period (apparently that was not just a formality in her contract), Ragini was set to go out and sabbatical, because she knew exactly what that meant.

If only…

Based on Ragini’s very true experience, here is what a sabbatical really is. In five stages.

Digital natives today are being flooded by unnatural amounts of information and content at a rate and quality that has never been seen before. You can find content and information on the nichest of subjects, particularly visual content, and our ability to understand and decode images has increased manifold. In this sea of visual content, memes, particularly Gen-Z memes, occupy a special trench of their own.

Gen-Z memes are infamous for seeming like they have little to no meaning, and look terrible. Unlike most memes, they don’t attempt to be directly funny, and the images and texts often have no connection to each other. All in all, absurd. These characteristics might sound similar to those of dada artwork, from the Dadaist Movement of the early 20th century. Read on as Sakshi Sadashiv explores the cultural and contextual elements that led to each movement, and draw interesting parallels between the two.

Cinema is more than just a part of our cultural identity. It shapes and informs our understanding of the world, thereby shaping and empowering our ability to change the world we live in. This month we shine the Spotlight on a film production studio that hopes to leverage this very power of cinema to make it easier for us to practise our rights and duties.

So come along to know more about Civic Studios, founded in 2019 by Anushka Shah and find out how they are building a global community of creators and storytellers for social impact through media.

February’s spotlight features Ukulele with Luv, an initiative by Pune-based musician and music teacher Luv Mahtani. What started out as a one-of-a-kind ukelele class five years ago has now evolved into an active community for people of all ages to bond over music and the joy of performance.

We bring you snippets from a conversation between Luv Mahtani and Sanjana Arun about the birth of Ukulele With Love, their collective experiences surrounding music, performing arts, and the experiences and nuances of teaching.

Credit cards can seem like a dream come true to some and a veritable minefield to others. This month Rags take you through the benefits and pitfalls of getting your very own credit card while breaking down the concepts of credit scores, interest rates and credit card debt. We also have a very useful checklist of things to do before you sign on the dotted line.

All this in a fun, easy-to-parse article full of memes to make your reaction to credit cards go from boo-hoo to boo-yeah!