Moving Out of Your Childhood Home Feels a Lot Like Heartbreak
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Moving Out of Your Childhood Home Feels a Lot Like Heartbreak

In a world obsessed with the new and uncharted, with moving on and around, I’m the kind who likes the idea of home and history. And now when it’s time to leave my childhood home behind, I wonder... How do I pack in all my memories? How do I take all this history with me to a new house?
28 Years of Lamhe: Bollywood Could Do with More Heroes Like Anil Kapoor’s Viren
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28 Years of Lamhe: Bollywood Could Do with More Heroes Like Anil Kapoor’s Viren

Yash Chopra’s Lamhe is not “ahead of its time” for daring to show a salt-and-pepper Viren falling for a barely legal Pooja. What makes it unique, to me at least, is the man’s intense internal struggle, self-flagellation, and multiple desperate efforts to not act on the impulse. How often have we seen a hero who doesn’t feel entitled to the affections of the woman his heart desires?
Home Run: Why Every Woman Needs A House of Her Own
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Home Run: Why Every Woman Needs A House of Her Own

A few days ago, I invested in a house of my own. I want a home where I don’t have to spend three days in a month lurking outside the kitchen because it’s “that time of the month”. I want a house where I can’t be removed from no matter what (or who) I do. Not by misogynist landlords or housing societies that randomly decide they don’t want “bachelors”.