Visually stunning but supremely vacuous, The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives is a glistening heap of mediocrity, except for the binocular-wielding one-woman crime patrol of Juhu, Maheep Kapoor.

The farmers’ protest has entered Day 7 and right behind the men are the women – thousands of them camping on the roads around Delhi. And when not raising their voices, they are washing clothes and cooking not only for their families but also for policemen and journalists on duty.

While my Amma tried to get me to love reading, I developed a passion for being seen with books. On Instagram, I found such people in hordes, posing with coffee mugs, colourful markers, blank notepads, and expensive gadgets with captions like, “A book is to heart what poop is to pee.”

Diljit Dosanjh is an unlikely hero for Bollywood. I can’t remember the last time someone with such son-of-the-soil appeal made it as a leading man in a mainstream film.

Your life on the working day after a raunchy tryst can feel sometimes like a Moods condom commercial. Enter: The Bangover, a feeling where everything reminds you of your partner’s naked body and your face has a perpetual post-coital glow.

Reading nihilist posts began as a joke, but soon they became an escape. I started believing that it did not matter if I stopped existing. But how the hell did I get here?

I am an incurable Christopher Nolan fan; I took a two-day train journey to watch Interstellar, the way he wanted us to. I never thought I’d really meet him. So when I chatted with the director about film projectors while he was shooting Tenet in Mumbai, the moment felt unreal.

The last few months has seen much brouhaha over the possession of a few grammes of weed – arrests have been made and the entertainment industry has been demonised. Meanwhile, India has voted with majority nations at the United Nations to remove cannabis from the list of most dangerous substances.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, police halted the wedding of a Hindu bride and Muslim groom. It didn’t matter that they were consenting adults or their families had no objection to the wedding. They apparently needed a go ahead from the district magistrate.

India has never had a woman Chief Justice of India, Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. And the representation of women in the judiciary continues to be dismal: There are only 80 women judges out of the total sanctioned strength of 1,113 judges in the High Courts and the SC. That’s an embarrassing 7.18 per cent.