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The Seat Mafia of Mumbai Locals
There’s no way in hell you can do anything about the Cosa Nostra of the train. Or can you? It takes nearly a lynching for Arré to find out.
Posted inBollywood
50 Years of Amitabh Bachchan: Why Don Remains Big B’s Slickest Film
Don is one of Amitabh Bachchan’s slickest film.The 1978 blockbuster took mofussil funk to new heights with its chhora Ganga kinare-wala act, before the realists came and spoiled the party.
Posted inSports
What’s Making Everyone So Angry At This Australian Open?
It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions going into the semi-finals of the Australian Open. Chances are we will remember the first Grand Slam of the season for Zverev’s racquet smash and Carreno Busta’s temper tantrum, rather than its winners.
Posted inLove and Sex
Will We Ever Find Love Like Our Parents Did?
My parents have been together for over three decades, while my relationship seems to come with a shelf-life of about three months. How were my parents so happy spending their lives together, while my generation runs away from commitment as if it were a jail sentence?
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It Can’t Stop Hurting: What It Takes to Live with Chronic Pain in Your 20s
When you live with chronic pain, the illness makes you less accessible to the world and the world less accessible to you. In the past year, the conditions of surviving my chronic pain has slowly dawned on me. One of them is not having the luxury to desire with abandon.
Posted inWeird
The Birth of the Braingasm
It is not very often that YouTube makes a significant contribution to the field of neurology, but reports of "braingasms” have researchers taking notice.
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How to Fake It, If You Can’t Fly It: A Cheat Sheet to Makar Sankranti
My relationship with Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti, is like that of a sibling. There’s a lot of cribbing, but at the end of the day, I’ve come to love it as my own. Windy afternoons and multiple attempts to fly a kite defined my childhood. Years later, I still can’t fly one, but I have chosen to accept my fate.
Posted inBollywood
Kesari Review: The Akshay Kumar Movie Manages to Make the Feat of 21 vs 10,000 Look Boring
Kesari, a retelling of the events of the Battle of Saragarhi, tells you nothing about the clash between the valiant 21 Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army and 10,000 Afghan tribesmen that a quick Google search will not. The battle is uninspiring and unnecessarily long drawn-out, and there is little imagination in the fight sequences.
Posted inPop Culture
Hey Netflix, Ditch Narcos. The Karnataka Elections Deserve a Show
News reports, think pieces, and analysis aren’t doing the cliffhanger elections in Karnataka any justice. With all the absurd drama that has unfolded this week, our netas deserve their own multi-genre TV show – working title, Kar-Naatak, The Wild Wild State.
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“Baad Mein Zaroorat Padegi!” Why Are Indians Such Obsessive Hoarders?
The great Indian store room has everything — all the things you can think of and millions you can’t even imagine — waiting to be summoned some day. We never need 99.9 per cent of the things. In my house, we still have the galla that my grandfather started his business with more than 50 years ago and a kadhai, the size of a bathtub.