I got dumped by my girlfriend of five years recently. Over Whatsapp. Here’s a point by point breakdown of my mourning period.

If Breaking Bad was a show about the sweet innocent Walter White taking control of his life, El Camino is about his loyal sidekick Jesse Pinkman finding his own, finally free from Walt’s manipulation. Aaron Paul pulls this off with the same soft intensity that he injected into Pinkman during Breaking Bad’s five-season run.

I started using the menstrual cup more than 15 years after I got my first period and it was the first time I engaged with my menses. I no longer loathed “that time of the month”. With every cycle I understood my body a little better, embraced it a little more

In today’s India, you don’t need to be extraordinary to get trolled or killed — you just need to be sincere and doing your job. Apart from high-profile examples like Kafeel Khan’s, you needn’t look far to see what happens when citizens do the right thing: Aarey forest activists in Mumbai being lathi-charged, and farmers arrested for requesting higher land compensation.

As Indians, we know time is fluid, which makes things difficult for us punctual ones. Once I managed to reach an hour late only to realise that, no matter how late you are, others will be later still. We have to be the only nation where everyone is in such a tearing hurry and yet always behind schedule.

Indians are so obsessed with the virtues of a struggle, that it has become a part of our national narrative. But what happens to those who inherit the burdens of inequality and not the fruits of struggle?

What most angry criticism of Joker has missed is that getting inside the headspace of a culprit is not tantamount to validating it. That acknowledgement of mental health does not translate into negation of accountability. The film never denies that Arthur Fleck turns into a psychopathic, nihilistic murderer.

Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona, a biopic documentary of the greatest footballer of all time, is an enthralling, explosive record of the time when Diego, born in an impoverished town outside Buenos Aires, became a prisoner of Maradona, the celebrity brand he created for himself.

It is nice to meet a man who plays the guitar, or reads Kafka, or travels the world. But that’s every other guy today. What is special, is to see a man who can get a male friend to back off, when he is making a woman uncomfortable. It’s nice to see a man with a spine.