How I Lost My Kids to Technology (And Later Won Them Back)
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How I Lost My Kids to Technology (And Later Won Them Back)

One day you’re the centre of your children’s universe – and then suddenly, you’re not. You’re never quite prepared for the way technology steals them away from you. They sit, their faces aglow in the light of their phone screens, chuckling to themselves. Like my kids, my overactive imagination is not my friend either.
Radhe Review: A Passionately Moronic Action Movie that Suffers From Too Much Salman Khan
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Radhe Review: A Passionately Moronic Action Movie that Suffers From Too Much Salman Khan

What comes in the way of Radhe being both a competent action movie and a perfect Eidi for the ardent Bhai fan? It suffers from being subservient to Salman Khan’s persona, the extent of whose mouldy and moth-eaten condition in 2021 is palpable from the makers’ efforts to drive home his eternal virility and machismo in every awkward scene he appears in with his 28-year-old heroine Disha Patani.
Laxmii Review: A Film That Has Managed to Offend Men, Women, Transpeople, Writers & Directors
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Laxmii Review: A Film That Has Managed to Offend Men, Women, Transpeople, Writers & Directors

Bollywood’s latest fad is to course correct its own history of ignorance. Laxmii is the latest casualty of this impetus to display big-ticket morality. The tedious nature of Laxmii’s politics is draining. Some of the film’s moral lecturing is done with the half-heartedness of a Covid mask hanging below the chin. The writing is bizarre, especially when it concerns itself with pseudo-religious ideas.