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My Short Love Story for Arundhati Roy
When Arundhati Roy asked the class to submit a short story, I saw my chance. I realised that there could be no direct route to attention. And wrote the worst short story ever.
Posted inPop Culture
Framing and Failing Britney Spears
Framing Britney Spears, a heartbreaking documentary by The New York Times, is a story about the public vilification of the pop star. It is testament to the fact that society detests women who control their lives and the only way to restore the old order is to strip them off this autonomy – as illustrated by what the men and media have done.
Posted inBollywood
Arré Checklist: Four Movie Endings Bollywood Didn’t Want to Show You!
Unlike what Yash Chopra and Sooraj Barjatya would have you believe, life doesn’t move from musical number to fight scene to happy ending. Here are the four movie climaxes that Bollywood didn’t want to show you.
Posted inGender
Ram Kadam Proves That India Still Doesn’t Understand Consent
Consent is, to a large section of the country, what Vijay Mallya is to the Indian authorities: impossible to grasp. Case in point: BJP MLA Ram Kadam, who offered to kidnap any girl who refused the proposal of any member of his constituency. For men like Kadam, a girl who says “no” is painting a target on her back.
Posted inPop Culture
The Morning Show and the Rachel You Need to See
Jennifer Aniston’s career was largely limited to latching onto the leftover charms of Rachel, her career-defining role in Friends. But with The Morning Show, she has made the leap no one would have thought she would.
Posted inLove and Sex
A Different Kind of Threesome: The Joy of Being a “Kabab Mein Haddi”
For some people, nothing screams single like voluntary third-wheeling, or hanging with couple friends. But, for a commitment-phobic 22-year-old, there’s nothing more convenient than living vicariously through your friends’ relationships.
Posted inGender
Lesbian? Bi? Or Pansexual? Why I Refuse to Label My Sexuality
I have gone from “not straight” to bisexual to pansexual in a span of five years. I feared if I didn’t identify myself, I’d miss out on my membership to the LGBTQIA+ club. But then I realised the answer to “Who are you?” has never been one size fits all. So, I dropped those limiting identities.
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Talk Me Off the Ledge, Please
In a city that crushes many a dream, the line between life and death is gossamer thin. In Mumbai, a group of selfless volunteers keeps the distressed on the safe side of this line.
Posted inVice
Quit If You Want, But You Will Always Be a Smoker
To quit smoking doesn’t mean taking your lungs off a diet of toxic smoke. In many ways, it feels like ceasing to be who you are.
Posted inGender
#MeToo: Evan Rachel Wood and the Courage It Takes to Name Your Abuser
More than three years after speaking about surviving sexual assault, actor Evan Rachel Wood has named her abuser – former fiance and shock rocker Marilyn Manson, also known as Brian Warne. It takes great strength to talk about abuse and a lot more to out the perpetrator.