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How a Car Show Became a Train Wreck
The new Top Gear was primed for failure long before the first episode of the new season even aired. The Orangutan, the Hamster, and Captain Slow are a tough act to follow.
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Letting Go of Our Old Comic Heroes
Our generation grabs every chance to declare its nostalgia. The Comic Con is one such chance. But what happens is that old content thrives and the new never gets a chance.
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Twinkle Twinkle, Still a Star
Twinkle Khanna has resurrected herself. While most women actors fade from our memory in a couple of years, she’s the exception to the rule.
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The Lost Art of Trolling
Back in the day, trolling was a sophisticated art form. Today, it has been reduced to boring screaming matches. The surrealism has practically vanished.
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The Merchants of Mumbai’s Cancer Economy
An ecosystem of lodge owners, taxi drivers, and idli sellers keep things running outside Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital, one of the city’s largest cancer facilities.
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How Doctors Become Demons
Suresh Narayan is your ordinary orthopaedic surgeon in a government hospital. He has not slept for days. And he is ready to operate on you – with a vengeance.
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A “Yay, Whoopie!” For the Great Indian Middle Class
Growing up in Allahabad, my family had a lot in common with Monisha Sarabhai. But we’re definitely in the same league as Maya Sarabhai now.
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The Future’s So Bleak, I Gotta Wear Shades
Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium eerily resembles Mumbai’s skyline. Dystopian narratives only appear far-fetched. Strip away the costumes and elaborate sets, and we’re in trouble.
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From Hoarder to Nurturer, How Gardening helped Me Grow
I used to be the fancy plant hoarder without ever really caring after them but it wasn’t until I started to nurture some less exotic saplings, did I feel the therapeutic effects of gardening.
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Why Is It Never The Man’s Fault?
A professor was forced to resign in Kolkata, for images she put up of herself on her social media. For some inane reason this non-imposition has been deemed her fault.