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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.

Uncategorized 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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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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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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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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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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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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Gender Spider-Man, Your Friendly Neighbourhood House Husband
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Humour What’s Eating Bengali Bhodrolok? Their “Obhimaan”
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