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Dear Ad Makers, Do Superstars Really Drive Hatchbacks or Wear Sasta Baniyans?

What’s the deal with celebrity endorsements? Do companies really believe that consumers dash out to buy their new car just because Ranveer Singh supposedly uses one? Who really believes a Bollywood superstar would be caught dead driving a modest hatchback?

Deepak Kaul July 29, 2016

POV

Will the Burari Deaths Become the Next Netflix True Crime Show?

At a time when true crime shows and podcasts are ubiquitous, the way we “consume” a murder has changed. A few years from now, the Burari case might become a Netflix series, and the way we are following it now is dictated by our hunger for a true crime show.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 29, 2016

People

Broken Bones to Broken Heart: My Family’s “Thuk Patti” Quick Fix for Everything

Thuk patti is not just a temporary fix, it is a spot of amelioration. When my father left his parents’ home, my grandma grudgingly agreed but not without thuk patti: We had to visit every Sunday.

Preeti Vangani July 29, 2016

Bollywood

Bharat Review: Did We Really Need Another Salman Khan Vanity Project?

Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat goes the extra mile to prove that anything can happen in a Salman Khan film. The film feels like a parody that reduces the horrors of Partition to a millennial MTV reality show and has Khan play a 70-year-old with the attitude of a 20-year old.

Poulomi Das July 29, 2016

Vice

From Chai-Paani to Scotch: The Evolution of the Bribe

Bribery V 2.0 has come to town. Paying 100 bucks in cash is passé, babus now say, “Paytm karo.”

Damian D'souza July 29, 2016

First Person

My Absent Abba

My Abba and I barely spoke. And while the lives of my friends’ fathers were not as complicated as my Abba’s, their memories of daddy-daughter conversations were limited too.

Farrah Kader July 29, 2016

People

Confessions of a Brazilian Waxing Queen

“What’s with all these men who have such a big problem with women’s pubic hair? Women, run away from such guys and the Brazilian.”

Author||ila ananya July 29, 2016

Pop Culture

Criminal Justice Review: An Average Crime Drama that Says Nothing New About India’s Flawed Judicial System

Criminal Justice comes across more like a faithful remake than an adaptation of the eponymous BBC series, undone by its inability to contextualise the proceedings and Indianise them. The sluggish, over-explanatory pace of the initial episodes ruins the chance of a tense build-up.

Poulomi Das July 28, 2016

POV

Eat, Drink, Be Merry For Tomorrow You Will Die

Sridevi didn’t know she’d be gone too soon. But had she known, would she have lived her life differently? I would.

RayC July 28, 2016

People

The Half Mother of Mowgli Girl

When Neeta Newton, a nurse at Bahraich district hospital, first met the “Mowgli" girl, she would screech and bite. But Neeta knew this fight – to “humanise” her – would be a fight worth fighting.

Saurabh Sharma July 28, 2016