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Purba Ray

Nearly funny, almost liberal, rarely serious, Purba likes to keep a safe distance from perfection. Unfortunately she has an opinion on everything, fact or fiction, beginnings or ends, light or heavy, long and short.

Satire When You Post an SOS for a Hospital Bed and the Man in Your Mention Says, “Can I Bed You?”
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Satire A Guide to Staying Positive in 2021’s India
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Satire I Took Part in the Tika Utsav, Should I Have Gone to Kumbh Instead?
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Humour Lockdown 2021: No More Living from Bed, It’s Time to Move On… To the Couch
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Satire A Petition to Start Krishi Darshan on Netflix. Bombay Begums is Too Offensive
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Gender “Didn’t Listen to Your Speech But You Looked Pretty”: Is It a Compliment or Is He Just Being Sexist?
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Humour Dear Kareena, We Have So Many Baby Names for You. You Must Have Another One
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Satire Pawri Ho Rahi Hai! The Motto Goa Tourism Should Totally Adopt
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Humour Will I Need to Re-learn Socialising in a Post-Vaccine World? How Do I Go Back to Shaking Hands?
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Humour Vaccine Ka Swayamvar! Covishield vs Covaxin: Kisko Pyaar Karoon?
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Humour Inside the Mind of an Extrovert Desperate for a WhatsApp Invite this Shaadi Season
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Coronavirus Is It Me or Have Bollywood Celebs Just Turned More Annoying During the Lockdown?
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Coronavirus What the World Needs Right Now is Kindness, Not Judgy Souls Who Mock at Someone’s Instagram
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Coronavirus Honest Coronavirus Fears: What If My Maid Learns about Social Distancing and Asks for Chutti?
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Coronavirus Darr Ke Aage Jeet Hai: How I Travelled to Vietnam Amid the Coronavirus Scare
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Satire Dear Menstruating Women, Stop Complaining. If They Don’t Want You in the Kitchen, Chill in the Bedroom
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Humour “Darling, Did You Get the Bulb Fixed?”: A Valentine’s Day Guide for Married Couples
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Humour Thank You Gwyneth Paltrow for Showing Us that Vaginas Make a Business Empire
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Satire Excuse Me Marvellous Mrs Markle, You’re Doing Princessing Wrong
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Satire It’s Official: Deepika Padukone is the Only Bollywood A-Lister in the Tukde Tukde Gang
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POV This New Year Along with Your Weight Shed Your Apathy
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Satire Honest Lessons in “Inner Beauty” from Your Favourite Style Influencer
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Pop Culture Marie Kondo’s Greatest Con: Making Us Throw out Our Crap, So She Can Sell Us Hers
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POV “Where’s the WiFi?” Why City Folks Suck at the Art of Doing Nothing
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Satire The Air in Delhi is Clearing… I Can Finally Locate My Husband
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Satire Who Saved the Burning Lehenga at the Bachchan Diwali Party? An Account by the Maharani of East Parle
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POV Smoke Trees & Raise Kids: How Marijuana Can Improve the Experience of Being a Mother
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Humour I’m a Bengali, Not Hyped about Pujo. Am I Dead Inside?
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Grub Dear Millennials, Can You Please Kill Fondant Cake?
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Humour “Are You Carrying a Body Inside that Purse?” Why You Don’t Mess with a Woman with a Big Handbag
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Humour In A Country of VIPs, Why Should Sara Ali Khan Carry Her Own Luggage?
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Satire comedy What the Odisha Roshogulla GI Tag Has Done to the “Culturally Superior” Bangali
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Grub A Gurgaon Pub is Selling “Female Beer”! But Is It Safe to Have After Sundown?
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Humour “Kitni Salary Hai?” Questions Indians Need to Stop Asking Strangers
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Humour Thanks for All the Saree Love, Now Let’s Encourage Men to Wear Dhotis
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Satire Why Do Women Need Free Metro Rides? Aren’t Ladies Nights Not Enough?
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Outdoors Are We Incapable of Taking Vacations Anymore?
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Grub Are We Seeing RoohAfza Through Rose-Tinted Glasses?
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Satire A Proud Short Dress Writes an Open Letter to the Gurgaon Mall Lady with a PhD in Misogyny
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Satire Moon Moon Sen is Every Bengali Without Bed Tea
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Gender 50 Shades of Greying: Ladies, Time to Retire the Compliment “You Don’t Look Your Age!”
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Politics Tumhara Kaam Kya Hai Basanti? Hema Malini, the “Acting” MP of Mathura
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Grub The West Has “Discovered” Jackfruit. How Much Longer Before it Goes the Coconut Oil Way?
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Gender Not a Dress, Not a Maxi: How the Indian Woman Finds Liberation in a Nightie
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Satire Jaagte Raho: Why India Needs a Chowkidar Like PM Modi
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Humour Life in Plastic, It’s Fantastic: How Barbie Set Unrealistic Life Goals for Girls the World Over
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Modern Family The Best Gift Today’s Mothers Can Give their Children is Some Unmonitored “Me Time”
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Humour Ek Aur Ladoo Se Mar Nahi Jaoge! Why Do Indian Hosts Always Overfeed Their Guests?
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Social Commentary Why Does India Have the Lowest Divorce Rate in the World? Because Log Kya Kahenge
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Humour Robert Vadra is Universally Disliked. He Should Be the Politician Instead of Priyanka Gandhi
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Humour Inside One of Delhi’s World-Famous Cow Hostels
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POV Why We Need to Ban the Term “Mid-Life Crisis” From Our Lexicon
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POV Hardik Pandya Might Become a Better Celebrity, But it’ll Take More than Our Outrage to Change Him
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Humour Move Over, Gau Maiyya: Why the Cockroach Should Be Our New Rashtra Mata
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Humour Mard Ko Dard Hota Hai: What Happens to the Macho Man When He Catches a Cold?
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POV Thank You, Next: Today’s Relationships and Gadgets Aren’t Made to Last
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Humour Why Ranveer Singh Gives Us Husband Goals
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Satire How to Survive Diwali in Smoggy Delhi: A Healthy Dose of Vitamin D (Denial and Delusion)
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Grub Soan Papdi, Meri Soan Papdi: An Homage to the Nice Guy of Diwali Mithais
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Humour #MeThoo: The Legend of India’s Spit Personalities
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Humour Sita Spends Her Dussehra Break In Lanka
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Gender Dear Nice Guys, Stop Congratulating Yourself for Not Being Harassers
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Humour Kisko Pyaar Karoon? The Dilemma of a Married Woman in a World Where Adultery Isn’t Criminal
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Social Commentary Yeh Gaon Hamara Hai: Loving Gurgaon is One Way of Saving It
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Bollywood Suhana Suffer: Stop Whining about the Vogue Cover
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Humour Kabootar Ja Ja Ja: Why Pigeons Top My Hate List
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Social Commentary Can We Please Stop the Uncle-isation and Aunty-fication of Everyone?
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Social Commentary Stop the Bhaiya-fication of Every Istri, Chai, & Taxi Wala Already
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Humour I’m an Indian & I’ll Be There By Sharp Late O’Clock
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Gender PJs I Love You: The Joy of Being Jhalla in Your Tattered Pyjama
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People The Question That Lies Between Us & Greatness: “Have I Left the Gas On?”
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Animals Dogorrhea: The Deadly Disease that Plagues Doggy Moms
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Outdoors Wild Wild Mess: The Suffering Named Safari
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Gender Spider-Man, Your Friendly Neighbourhood House Husband
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Humour What’s Eating Bengali Bhodrolok? Their “Obhimaan”
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