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Social Commentary Here’s Why It’s Not Easy to Walk Out of an Abusive Relationship
Reaction to the recent incident in Delhi has been consternation around Shraddha Walkar’s perceived reluctance to ‘walk out’ out of an abusive relationship. On United Nation’s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, I’m writing to tell you, it’s not as simple.
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Pop Culture Uunchai review: A Restrained Emotional Drama that Tugs at the Heart
Sooraj Barjatya returns to weave a simple, yet emotional narrative that hits all the right notes and is symbolic of the Director’s signature approach to cinema.
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Sports SKY-gazing with infinite possibilities
Surya Kumar Yadav is possibly unlike anything this country has seen and in a way he symbolises how we have evolved, both on the field and off it.
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Pop Culture Phone Bhoot Review: Screwball Horror Comedy That’s Unashamed of Being Silly
Phone Bhoot is silly, awkward and committed to nonsense to the extent that you don’t mind taking partaking in its idea of fun.
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POV Why I Moved to A City to Become Invisible
Most of us are terrified of becoming one with the crowd, but what that invisibility has allowed me, in terms of agency and freedom, has turned out to be invaluable.
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Pop Culture Ram Setu Review: A Fast-paced but Ultimately Disappointing Adventure
Akshay Kumar’s fifth film of 2022 might just be the best of the lot – but it falls short of being a truly compelling action-adventure because of some weak plotting and unconvincing visual effects.
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POV How Adulthood Changed the way I Look at the Festive Season
As I’ve grown older my perspective on celebrations and the festival season has changed to accommodate the anxieties of adulthood, at the expense of convention.
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Pop Culture The Peerless Brilliance of Sheeba Chaddha
In both Maja Ma and Good Bad Girl, Sheeba Chaddha continues to defy our dated ideas of time and screen space by delivering incomparable per-second impact.
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Pop Culture Doctor G Review: A Breezy Watch Where the Women Shine
Doctor G is familiar Ayushmann Khurrana territory, but it is unique for the way it allows its women to shine.
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POV What Running a Business around Pleasure Taught me about Sexuality
The pandemic brought change in the way we talked intimacy and sex. But it was when I decided to turn pleasure into a business, that I really learned about sexuality, in the most organic ways possible.
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Pop Culture Goodbye Review: Amitabh Bachchan Leads a Largely Charming Film
The Amitabh Bachchan led film wants to explore the aftermath of death, and bar a few sloppy moving parts, is largely charming and likeable.
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Bollywood Hrithik Roshan 2.0 Looks like the Superstar He was Always Meant to Be
Hrithik Roshan has always had the starry quality that accompanied his launch two decades ago, but he has since then been more miss than hit. With War and Vikram Vedha, however, Roshan has possibly laid claim to the title of being Bollywood’s biggest, possibly only superstar.
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POV How My Hirsutism Made Me The Son My Father Did Not Have
Dealing with body hair as a woman is one thing, but my condition meant that hair grew in places that would make people scrutinise it. Incredibly, it’s something that brought me closer to my father like never before.
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Pop Culture Vikram Vedha Review: Wholesomely Entertaining
Saif Ali Khan brings grace to the role of Vikram but it is the charisma of Hrithik Roshan’s Vedha that delights in this mass entertainer shouldered by a terrific script.
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Love and Sex How Sexting Returned to Me The Safety and Control that the Actual Thing Couldn’t
When real life experiences fuelled my trust issues with partners, sexting became my cheat code to remain present, despite all my issues with power play of the actual act.
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Pop Culture Hush Hush Review: Sensitively Crafted Tale led by Stellar Performances
Hush Hush is a familiar tale of elite crimes, but it is elevated by fantastic performances delivered by a diverse group of formidable actresses.
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People Raju Srivastava and The Legacy of ‘Gajodhar Bhaiya’
In his prime Raju Srivastava was a brilliant observer and possibly mainstream cable television’s first brush with the heartland.
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Sports Growing and Grieving Alongside Roger Federer
For two decades, significant moments in my life have seemed to intersect with those in Federer’s. Even his retirement comes at a time of definite change for me. We were in a sense, meant to grow older together.
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Pop Culture Bollywood Romances Don’t Work the Way They Used To
On paper, Brahmastra had every right to think it would revive the larger-than-life romance. The fact that none of the Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt spark translates on screen says a lot about mainstream Hindi cinema’s dated ideas, and the modern viewer’s demand for nuance.
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Pop Culture Brahmastra Part One Review: A Chaotic Spectacle That Mostly Lives Up To The Hype
There’s much to appreciate in the simple, sometimes wobbly, but relentlessly large-hearted intentions of this first instalment in Ayan Mukerji’s years-in-the-making saga.
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POV 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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Pop Culture The Oddly Empowering Nature of Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives
The reality show can be cringe at times, but it is also oddly empowering in the sense that these women would not come to our screens if not sought out for who they are, rather than what they could have been.
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Pop Culture Cuttputlli review: Bland and Boring
Akshay Kumar is the weakest link in a film that rarely makes sense or has you at the edge of your seat.
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Relationships How Polyamory Saved me from the Lingering Trauma of an Abusive Relationship
When I turned to polyamory it wasn’t to explore connections, but possibly to get over the trauma of early exclusive relationships that were defined by skewed ideas of possession and jealousy.
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Pop Culture The Superlative Brilliance of Shefali Shah
Words probably won’t do justice to just how harrowingly brilliant Shefali Shah is in the second season of Delhi Crime. It’s humbling to be in presence of such precocious talent, that even our faculties to fully appreciate and preserve it are beginning to feel suspect.
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Pop Culture Liger Review: An Abomination that Can’t be Saved by Vijay Deverakonda’s Mass Appeal
Liger fails on almost all fronts as one giant incoherent mess of a film, that can’t even do bare clichés right, let alone suggest it has the scent of originality.
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Pop Culture Dobaaraa Review: More than just a faithful adaptation
Dobaaraa has plenty of things working work it including Tapsee Pannu’s acting and Anurag Kashyap’s direction. In fact, it possibly outdoes the original.
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POV How I Learned to Love My Society’s I-Day Celebration
I used to dislike the society’s I-day celebrations that sounded and felt like a repeat of the one before, but for the two years during the pandemic that it went missing, I realised its importance.
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POV 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.
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Pop Culture Laal Singh Chaddha review: A Faithful Adaptation that Never Quite Soars
Laal Singh Chaddha is a faithful remake of Forrest Gump but besides a couple of heartfelt moments it imports no language or perspective of its own.
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Social Commentary
Here’s Why It’s Not Easy to Walk Out of an Abusive Relationship
Reaction to the recent incident in Delhi has been consternation around Shraddha Walkar’s perceived reluctance to ‘walk out’ out of an abusive relationship. On United Nation’s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, I’m writing to tell you, it’s not as simple.
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