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Love, law and maths

Turns out I was not alone in thinking this. I had unexpected company—the Kolkata police.

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Chaddi ki charcha

Pagal kar diya ki deewana bana diya? No one can say maybe because they are speechless.

15.12.2024 10

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Cheesy chilly toast in Latur

That day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack.

08.12.2024 20

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Playmates

Whatever happened to making friends the old fashioned way, one might say.  Illustration/Uday Mohite Young...

01.12.2024 30

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Hello 1-2-3 Manifesting

The Secret was not itself new. It reframed similar ideas popular since the late 19th century. I guess, since the book has sold over 30 million copies,...

24.11.2024 10

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What’s patriarchy, ya?

So given her job, I guess the honourable minister knew whereof she spoke. It’s not just patriarchy that’s holding women back. It’s, erm, the...

17.11.2024 30

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What does your body mean?

It was a powerful image, bubbling with many meanings of the body and politics. Meta decided its nudity had only one meaning and that meaning was...

10.11.2024 10

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Trash fabulous

Such people will at once be considered too good for the group, and also “who does she think she is” by the group. Yaniki, Shalini Passi. ...

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Side character energy FTW

Did they whoop like Fearless Nadia or toss off an insouciant Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron as the made the jailbreak? That’s left to our giggling imagination....

20.10.2024 10

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The I-(rrational) pill

Tamil Nadu’s moral ban followed protests from anti-abortion groups like Responsible Parents Forum and Satvika Samuga Sevakar Sangam, which claimed...

13.10.2024 10

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Too caught up to catch up with friends?

“That can’t be right” he exclaimed. Some retracing revealed that we had in fact met in 2021. It just did not feel that way. ...

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Flavorous you

Then sometimes we stumble upon something that connects us to our deepest yearnings Illustration/Uday Mohite Most...

29.09.2024 10

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‘Shame must change sides’

That is why it is emotionally piercing and powerful, ricocheting across walls that ring the world with silence. Many of these walls are made of words ...

22.09.2024 20

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Big belly god

A time when being playful with god was seen as affection, not disrespect. Illustration/Uday Mohite I miss...

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Kitni auratein thi

What prevents someone claiming to be a political thinker a chance to deepen their political understanding? Illustration/Uday Mohite...

01.09.2024 10

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Lonely young men

What were the times that Salim-Javed were part of, which made them as much as they made it? Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

25.08.2024 20

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Equal

Calls for hanging discourage examination of the conditions of injustice in which sexual violence is embedded. Illustration/Uday...

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Heroic

Phogat her silver and Imane Sharif the pure celebration of her victories.  Illustration/Uday Mohite To be...

11.08.2024 10

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The waters of forgetfulness

The ruling party was quick to call this a Communist-government made disaster, as if it is not a disaster that we all live within ...

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The Andaaz

So much maza, khulle haath, khulla dil is indeed the definition of a true blockbuster, made with heart, not only marketing ...

28.07.2024 10

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Kya shaadi abhi bhi baaki hai?

Krishna opened his mouth to reveal the entire universe. The wedding is an inside out version of this that subsumes the entire mediaverse into its...

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So, I read a book

Unable to work, I lay in bed, wrapped in a quilt, wrapped in the cocoon of monsoon light, wrapped up in the book. Illustration/Uday...

14.07.2024 10

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Sexual justice

Earlier, Uttarakhand passed a law requiring those in a live-in relationship to register when it starts and ends. Illustration/Uday...

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Sona darling

The sheer presence of unconventional, or let’s just say it, diva types, including Tabu in rose gold gharara, felt like a feminist Farah Khan song ...

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Wedding dressed

If it were not for the dresses, would women be tempted into matrimony one wonders Illustration/Uday Mohite People...

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Mutton, parottas and movie-making

In Madurai, temples are everywhere, their varied surfaces teeming with mythical creatures and uncompromising gods Illustration/Uday...

16.06.2024 10

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Slaps and slights

A Kangana Ranaut clip encouraging Pahadi women to give every champu a pahadi thappad circulated soon after Illustration/Uday Mohite...

09.06.2024 10

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The mausam connection

Too many words and ideas? Zoning out? Arright! Back to numbers. Illustration/Uday Mohite We live in a world that...

02.06.2024 20

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Fizool ke meltdowns and fluid scoldings

Priyanka Gandhi on the other hand, has been demonstrating a rather different approach, in her interviews Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

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The highway to a hell called Ghatkopar

The gigantic billboard had been constructed by a man called Bhavesh Bhinde, a name out of some film by koi ‘‘edgy” gents filmmaker ...

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Diamonds and bazaars

They shape each other like dreams and waking, music and lyrics, sexual desire and ‘respectable’ society, tawaifs and Hindi cinema ...

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Mumbai stories and other roses

As we quietly observe each other, we also reveal ourselves to each other, across crowded trains and tube-lit windows. Watcher and watched in one...

05.05.2024 10

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Of protests and principles

The Objectivity Myth is the Invisibility Cloak of unjust power. Emotion is as much about how you don’t say something, as how you do ...

28.04.2024 20

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Quick time, slow time

A few days later, the lockdown was declared. Despite the starkness of the times, time became, not a luxury, but luxurious ...

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Mixed doubles

There is no confusion of seeing your own face reflected in the enemy’s face if he is masked. Self and others are poles, not a tangle ...

14.04.2024 10

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Fear of flying

Cut to 2024. The film’s flight attendant protagonists have not received their salaries for six months Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

07.04.2024 9

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INSAF ki dagar pe

The slogan invoked identities and histories currently facing repression from entire national and global systems Illustration/Uday...

31.03.2024 10

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Airplanes, chor bazaars and Bangkok jugaad

One of my companions learned from a stall owner that some sellers in the market were children of sex workers from around the area and this was now a...

24.03.2024 10

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A bar on Hooker Hill

The thrill of arrival into a dreamscape soon turns to restlessness for that other romance, of the unexpected encounter. ...

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Does Women’s Day matter?

The first three responses are perhaps more about the marketplace than Women’s Day—and reveal a greater relationship with that market than feminism...

10.03.2024 20

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The DIY love project

“Bas followers milein” says Mithu. “Followers will come with good content,” quips Manasi, implying Mithu is anything but ...

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The picnic life

After dinner, we might be treated to an orange bar from the ice-cream carts. An ordinary day became a moon-lit ditty ...

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Mann ki bhadaas

“What was the movie you compared to expensive shapeless Goa dresses in your stories” someone asked me Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

18.02.2024 10

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Love is its own civil code

Rather, it is about blaming freedom for violence and creating an opportunity to increase scrutiny and control of individuals. ...

11.02.2024 10

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The steely charm of Feminists

Then they say, “Accha anyway”, yaniki ignore your moaning and somehow you find yourself embroiled in their endeavours, complaining bhi, loving it...

04.02.2024 10

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Power. Struggle.

So, when, say, women’s lives most resemble men’s, or queer lives are most recognisably like straight lives, we applaud their power or achievement ...

28.01.2024 30

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I’ll meet you at Wheeler’s

How many ways we’d be saying, we’re together, what fun, even if we’d met just two days ago! Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

21.01.2024 7

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The Vanishing Lie-o-metre or what I learned from KWK S8

That male domination displayed itself fully in an episode featuring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor in Season 3, replete with bro-jokes and an inherently...

14.01.2024 8

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Adventures in upholstery

In a proper middle-class life, a sofa set is both destiny and destination and matching is a requirement. I did not want to fall into its clutches....

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The attention of friends

But for some of my friends, it has been a time when the stoicism of their previous years has flowered into thrilling achievement ...

31.12.2023 30

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