Posted inPop Culture
BoJack Horseman Does What The Simpsons Can’t
A cartoon featuring a horse person is a better illustration of the millennial situation than most live-action and other shows with regular humans.
Posted inBollywood
Girish Karnad’s Utsav is that Rare Bollywood Film that Both Sensualises and Empowers its Women
Utsav, directed by Girish Karnad, is a whimsical yet beautiful ode to the golden age of sexual and social freedom. This story of Vasantsena, a wealthy courtesan in Ujjain, put women’s agency, their desire first. In today’s Bollywood that seems like a thing of the future.
Posted inBollywood
Arré Recommends: Six Iconic Films To Revisit On Women’s Day
From Kahaani to English Vinglish, there have been few Bollywood films that have allowed their women characters to shine, rather than be used as mere props, devoid of any personality or agency. Ahead of Women's Day, let's look back at a few of these classics.
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What Mohalla Assi’s 3-Year Delay Says About India’s Censor Board
Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s Mohalla Assi, starring Sunny Deol, releases today after a three-year-long fight with the CBFC. But it hardly feels like a victory. Instead the film feels weakened by its dated release, punished for being critical of the government.
Posted inSports
The Star of the World Cup So Far Has Been Shakib Al Hasan
At the end of the league phase, Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has achieved the rare distinction by becoming the first player to score over 500 runs and bag over 10 wickets in a single World Cup. Regardless of who bags the Man of the Tournament award, Shakib has without a shadow of doubt been the story of this World Cup.
Posted inGender
Why Do Women Suck at Negotiating Salaries?
Why do so many women settle for lowball salary offers, far under the value that our experience merits? For all our idealism and outspoken feminism, when it is time to bat for ourselves in the most elementary of ways, why do we consistently fail ourselves?
Posted inPOV
Can Social Media Leave Analysis of the Kashmir Situation to the Real Experts?
Going by social media posts 48 hours prior to Article 370’s abrogation, Kashmir was either dealing with the worst genocide since World War II, or in the process of liberating itself from the clutches of “evil separatists”. With so much speculation, we’ve actually ended up with very little idea of what’s happening.
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Couch, Meet Potato: Where Can You Find 2018’s Biggest Emmy-Winning Shows?
Discovering new shows is the millennial equivalent of a day at Disneyland. What’s better than discovering that most of this year’s Emmy-winning shows are already sitting on your Hotstar Premium account, just waiting for some love?
Posted inLove and Sex
The Secret Pleasures of a Boring Relationship
Pop culture conditions us to see spontaneity as the true sign of romance. Except the pressure to be cool, and with it, and switched on all the friggin’ time is impossibly exhausting.
Posted inPOV
Liberals, You’re Doing It Wrong
Even a few years ago, family members with opposing political views didn’t find it hard to get along. Don’t park the blame with right-wingers – liberals are just as responsible.