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Sonali Kokra

Sonali Kokra is a journalist, writer, editor and media consultant from Mumbai. She writes on feminism, gender rights, sexuality, relationships, and lifestyle. In her 12-year-long career, she has written for national and international magazines, newspapers and websites. She was last seen as the lifestyle editor of NDTV, and HuffPost.com, and has published a coffee table book on Shah Rukh Khan.

POV Why I Didn’t Sign the Petition to Commute “Nirbhaya” Rapists’ Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment
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Gender Fair & Lovely Will Drop “Fair” From its Brand Name. Why Dark-skinned Girls Like Me Are Cheering
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Fashion It’s 2020. Can We Please Leave Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Her Neckline Alone?
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POV We are Anti-CAA Protesters. Yes, We Are Reclaiming the Word Deshbhakti
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Bollywood 15 Years of Swades: Shah Rukh Khan’s Mohan Bhargava Showed Us the Kind of Patriotism We Can Relate To
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Politics CAA Protests: Not All of Mumbai is Apathetic, Some of Us Showed Up
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POV Does December Make You Blue? Or Is It Just Me?
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Pop Culture Frozen II is Here! My Sympathy is With You, Dear Parents, Aunts, and Uncles
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Bollywood 28 Years of Lamhe: Bollywood Could Do with More Heroes Like Anil Kapoor’s Viren
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Pop Culture Why I Keep Going Back to My Young Adult Novels… Even at 32
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Pop Culture One Mic Stand: Shashi Tharoor Pulls a Kunal Kamra, Just in Better English
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Humour Dear Indian Professionals, Nobody Cares about Your Class 2 Elocution Trophy on LinkedIn
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Pop Culture Dear Shah Rukh Khan, How Many Times Did You Stop Yourself from Rolling Your Eyes at David Letterman?
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POV Multitasking is Like Doing 3 Jobs for the Salary of 1. It’s Awful, Exhausting, & Overrated
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Bollywood Housefull 4 Review: A Collection of Cringe-worthy Jokes That Range From Absurd to Insensitive
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First Person How I Found Joy in My Insignificance After 15 Days of Vipassana
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Gender “It’s Not Me, It’s You”: How to Identify Gaslighters and Fight the Manipulation
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POV “Baad Mein Zaroorat Padegi!” Why Are Indians Such Obsessive Hoarders?
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Humour Akshay Kumar, the “Gharelu” Man, My Dream Husband
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POV An Ode to Tuition Teachers… From a “Slow Learner”
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Social Commentary UP Law Student vs BJP’s Chinmayanand: Can Viral Videos Become the Aam Aurat’s Shield Against the Powerful?
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Grub Parle-G Pe Charcha: How this Slab of Glucose Unifies a Country
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Love and Sex Do You Check Your Ex’s Instagram? How to Get Over a Lover with No Social Media Presence
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People How Gulzar Sahab, My Imaginary Friend, Made Me Fall in Love With Words
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Bollywood Batla House Review: A Promising Thriller Shouldered By an Intense John Abraham
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Love and Sex A Case for Marriage in an Age that Celebrates Being Single
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POV Moving Out of Your Childhood Home Feels a Lot Like Heartbreak
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Pop Culture Goodbye Toni Morrision, A Champion of Decency and My Imaginary Friend
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Pop Culture Big Little Lies and the Truth About Women’s Grief
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Pop Culture Can Men and Women Be Friends? After 30 Years of When Harry Met Sally, We Still Don’t Know
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POV Dear Sabyasachi, I’m Overdressed, Not Wounded. Stick to Designer Lehengas & Don’t Play Therapist
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Love and Sex How Do You Know He’s Mr Right? He Accepts Your Romantic Past
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POV Dear Bosses, Stop Telling Your Employees to Be a Big Happy Family at Work
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Pop Culture Big Little Lies is Back! It Continues to Ask Difficult Questions about Sexual Abuse & Trauma
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Social Commentary We Gave the Aligarh Murder a Communal Spin and Forgot About the Victim
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Pop Culture HBO’s Chernobyl Warns Us About the Disasters of Propaganda & State-Sponsored Truths
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POV Does Vivek Oberoi Remind You of That Ex Who Still Stalks You on Instagram?
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Bollywood Madhuri Dixit, the Woman of Middle-Class Dreams, and My Papa’s First Crush
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Gender “Ban the Burqa, Ban the Ghunghat”: When Will We Stop Telling Women What They Can or Cannot Wear?
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Bollywood How the Meenakshi Seshadri-Starrer Damini Taught Me My First Lesson in Feminism
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Pop Culture Avengers: Endgame Spoiler-Free Review: Carry Along Enough Tissues for an Epic and Emotional Showdown
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Gender Look Who’s Not Cooking: Why My Children Will Never Eat Maa Ke Haath Ka Khana
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Social Commentary Kabhi Haan, Mostly Naa: Why Indian Girls Should Learn to Say “No” to Family
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Gender What’s Wrong with Being a “High Maintenance” Woman?
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POV Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Work Mom and a Work Wife
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POV Dear Army Brats, Who Made You the Authority on National Security?
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Gender Home Run: Why Every Woman Needs A House of Her Own
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Gender #MeToo: Is it Okay to Feel Guilty about Outing a Sexual Harasser?
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Social Commentary Why the Toxic “Call Out” Culture on Social Media Needs to Go
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Gender Oscars 2019: Will Films Like Period. End of Sentence. Rid Us of Taboos Around Menstruation?
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Bollywood Apna Time Aayega: What Privileged India Needs to Learn from Gully Boy’s Shabdon Ka Jwala
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Love and Sex Heartbreak from Hell: When Your Boyfriend Cheats on You… with Your Best Friend
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Bollywood The Most Disappointing Part of The Fakir of Venice is… Farhan Akhtar’s Attitude
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Love and Sex To All the “Misunderstood” Dev.Ds We’ve Loved Before
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Bollywood Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga Review: The Lesbian Love Story a Post-377 India Needs
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Gender Ladies, Stop Telling Yourself You Like Lace Lingerie
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Bollywood Thackeray Review: A Blind Love Letter to the Shiv Sena Supremo
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Bollywood Manikarnika Review: An Effective Revision of Your School History Book Chapter
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Gender Where Are Our Female Sherlock Holmes & Dr House? Why It’s So Difficult to Write Disagreeable Women Characters
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POV How I Have Shamefully Benefitted from Patriarchy
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POV Homosexuality is Not a Crime. Time to Ask, “But What about Our Soldiers at the Border”?
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Love and Sex How Do You Grieve the End of a Relationship That Has No Name on Paper?
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POV New Year’s Resolution: Why I’ve Decided Not to Hide My Flab This Year
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POV #EverydayPhenomenal: What Our Obsession with Over-Celebrating Weddings, Birthdays, and Now Even Divorces Says About Us
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Gender Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?
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POV Hey Bollywood Darlings, Here’s How NOT to Respond to #MeToo Questions
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Bollywood How Low is the Bar Set That Ranveer Singh Gets Labelled Husband of the Century?
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POV Don’t Show Me the Money: What It Takes To Be an Unambitious Person
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First Person Radically Honest Confessions: What a Month of Constantly Telling the Truth Taught Me
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