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Turns out I was not alone in thinking this. I had unexpected company—the Kolkata police.
Pagal kar diya ki deewana bana diya? No one can say maybe because they are speechless.
That day arrived in Latur. Scanning the menu, I spied it. Chilli Cheese Toast. Only the world’s bestest snack.
Whatever happened to making friends the old fashioned way, one might say. Illustration/Uday Mohite Young...
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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
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....
Tamil Nadu’s moral ban followed protests from anti-abortion groups like Responsible Parents Forum and Satvika Samuga Sevakar Sangam, which claimed...
“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. ...
Then sometimes we stumble upon something that connects us to our deepest yearnings Illustration/Uday Mohite Most...
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 ...
A time when being playful with god was seen as affection, not disrespect. Illustration/Uday Mohite I miss...
What prevents someone claiming to be a political thinker a chance to deepen their political understanding? Illustration/Uday Mohite...
What were the times that Salim-Javed were part of, which made them as much as they made it? Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
Calls for hanging discourage examination of the conditions of injustice in which sexual violence is embedded. Illustration/Uday...
Phogat her silver and Imane Sharif the pure celebration of her victories. Illustration/Uday Mohite To be...
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 ...
So much maza, khulle haath, khulla dil is indeed the definition of a true blockbuster, made with heart, not only marketing ...
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...
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...
Earlier, Uttarakhand passed a law requiring those in a live-in relationship to register when it starts and ends. Illustration/Uday...
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 ...
If it were not for the dresses, would women be tempted into matrimony one wonders Illustration/Uday Mohite People...
In Madurai, temples are everywhere, their varied surfaces teeming with mythical creatures and uncompromising gods Illustration/Uday...
A Kangana Ranaut clip encouraging Pahadi women to give every champu a pahadi thappad circulated soon after Illustration/Uday Mohite...
Too many words and ideas? Zoning out? Arright! Back to numbers. Illustration/Uday Mohite We live in a world that...
Priyanka Gandhi on the other hand, has been demonstrating a rather different approach, in her interviews Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
The gigantic billboard had been constructed by a man called Bhavesh Bhinde, a name out of some film by koi ‘‘edgy” gents filmmaker ...
They shape each other like dreams and waking, music and lyrics, sexual desire and ‘respectable’ society, tawaifs and Hindi cinema ...
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...
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 ...
A few days later, the lockdown was declared. Despite the starkness of the times, time became, not a luxury, but luxurious ...
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 ...
Cut to 2024. The film’s flight attendant protagonists have not received their salaries for six months Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
The slogan invoked identities and histories currently facing repression from entire national and global systems Illustration/Uday...
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...
The thrill of arrival into a dreamscape soon turns to restlessness for that other romance, of the unexpected encounter. ...
The first three responses are perhaps more about the marketplace than Women’s Day—and reveal a greater relationship with that market than feminism...
“Bas followers milein” says Mithu. “Followers will come with good content,” quips Manasi, implying Mithu is anything but ...
After dinner, we might be treated to an orange bar from the ice-cream carts. An ordinary day became a moon-lit ditty ...
“What was the movie you compared to expensive shapeless Goa dresses in your stories” someone asked me Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
Rather, it is about blaming freedom for violence and creating an opportunity to increase scrutiny and control of individuals. ...
Then they say, “Accha anyway”, yaniki ignore your moaning and somehow you find yourself embroiled in their endeavours, complaining bhi, loving it...
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 ...
How many ways we’d be saying, we’re together, what fun, even if we’d met just two days ago! Illustration/Uday Mohite ...
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...
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....
But for some of my friends, it has been a time when the stoicism of their previous years has flowered into thrilling achievement ...