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Modi’s Middle Finger to the Apology Budget
Our PM is a bit of a badass who has delivered the ultimate “fuck you”… but not to the middle class, or even the rich. It’s to all the “experts” who expected him to make amends.
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From 1947 to 2089: What Will India Look Like in Another 71 Years?
In the India of the distant future, will caste still matter? Will democracy as we know it persist, or be replaced by a newer form of government? Predicting the future is hard, even more so for a country like India.
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The Curious Case of the Parent-Dependent Indian Millennial
Except for their height and education, nothing has really changed about my now grown-up kids. I think I might be the one to blame. I turned into that dreaded beast: the helicopter parent, who controlled their routine, and now my children depend on that control.
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India’s Engineering Colleges: A Four-Year Career Camp for Undecided Youth
I went to a pretty decent engineering college in Kerala, and my batchmates are doing all sorts of things outside of engineering, from management to music, from content writing to software start-ups. For most engineers, the four years of college was just to figure out what they wanted to do in life.
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The Longest Coming-Out Party Ever
KJo, sweetheart, maker of fantastic movies and manipulator of NRI nostalgia, please stop. We know you’re gay.
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Mama’s Shawl, Papa’s Wallet… Is It Alright to Give Away Your Dead Parents’ Belongings?
Our loved ones live on in us and in our memories, but they also live on in the little and not-so-little things they leave behind. Discarding the things that belonged to my mother and father has been a wrestling match between sentimentality and practicality.
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Jamal Khashoggi, and the Thankless Life (and Death) of Journalists
Informing the public at the cost of their personal safety and liberty, journalists walk a razor’s edge. But what’s worse than our increasing disregard for the freedom of press? The fact that we continue to enjoy the benefits of a free press – but don’t want to sign up for the fight that is required to preserve it.
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A Tomb of One’s Own: Why It is Important for Indian Women to Own Public Spaces
Women need public spaces – not just to occupy thoroughfare but even as private spaces. A space for quiet reflection, for celebration, for contemplation, for cooling down from a fight. Public spaces can help shape our most private selves. Just ask my mother.
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Where Have All the Moderates Disappeared?
Extreme viewpoints – be it conservative or liberal – are the noisiest. They get the most attention in today’s hyper-social world. In the process, everyone who’s not “visible enough” becomes part of the vast majority leading “uneventful” lives. But is being moderate equal to being mediocre?
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All Millennials are Artists, Selfies are Our Stage
There is no such thing as a bad selfie. The angles are flattering, the extended arms are thinned, out and the jawline becomes the hero we always wanted but never had. So why then are selfies such a taboo on social media?